FriendFeed was an incredibly influential real-time social aggregator created in 2007 that essentially pioneered the functional blueprint for modern social networks. While it never achieved massive mainstream scale on its own, it invented or perfected cornerstone features like the “Like” button, inline comment threads, and the real-time updating news feed.
Because it was so far ahead of its time, Facebook acquired FriendFeed in 2009. The acquisition was a historic “acqui-hire” that brought its brilliant engineering team directly into Facebook to reconstruct its core platform. Key Features FriendFeed Pioneered New Friendfeed Ignites the Too-Much-Information Age
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