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FriendFeed
FriendFeed's homepage
FriendFeed logo
Type of site
Social aggregator
Available inEnglish
OwnerFriendFeed Inc.
Created byBret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh
URLfriendfeed.com
CommercialYes

FriendFeed is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social websites such as blog entries, social bookmarking websites, and social networks among others. This allows individuals using multiple social websites to have a consolidated stream of details on all their activities across these websites.

Bloggers writing about FriendFeed have said that this service addresses the shortcomings of social media services which exclusively facilitate tracking of their own members' social media activities on that particular social media service, whereas FriendFeed provides the facility to track these activities (such as posting on blogs, Twitter and Flickr) across a broad range of different social networks.[citation needed] They have also said that they are concerned about people commenting on their posts inside FriendFeed instead of on their blogs.[citation needed]

The founders are all former Google employees who were involved in the launch of such services as Gmail and Google Maps. They include Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor. Venture Capital agency Benchmark Capital are involved with the investment funding.

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, California.

Supported services

A user can configure his or her FriendFeed account to aggregate content from the following services:

References

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