How Facebook’s Purchase of FriendFeed Will Affect SocNet Users
Facebook purchased FriendFeed, a social media aggregator, last week and the Washington Post is reporting on how that purchase might affect users of social networks. As a heavy social media user, I’d love to have an aggregator that ties all of my feeds together and this purchase goes a long way towards that goal. Yeah, I know a lot of you shun SocNets but they’re growing with or without your blessing.
To understand the allure of this kind of aggregator, one only has to look to successful news aggregators. Take the devilishly popular Huffington Post, for example. For better or worse, the site's mash-up of news from disparate sources has struck a cord among its 7 million monthly visitors. …Rather than hunt and peck through all these other sites, people go to the Huffington Post to be delivered a smattering of links.
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