Remains of the Day: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed Edition
August 11th, 2009 | 
Author: Remains of the Day: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed Edition
Social networking site Facebook snags up social media aggregator FriendFeed, we patiently await more Windows 7 deals, and AT&T’s Terms of Service are looking shady.
- FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request
FriendFeed is the coolest social aggregator we’ve seen, but it never really caught on with users at large. With this new Facebook partnership, the popular social networking tool hopes to compete with the likes of Twitter for your real-time online activity and search. [FriendFeed Blog] - Facebook Agrees to Acquire Sharing Service FriendFeed
The same news from the folks at Facebook. [Facebook Press Room] - Don’t Pre-Order Windows 7 Now
Gizmodo says to wait for deals before paying full price on Windows 7. [Gizmodo] - AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits
Slashdot reports that AT&T has changed their ToS so that its customers can’t engage in class action lawsuits against them. We’re no lawyers, but how is something like this legal? [Slashdot] - Bit.ly Swoops in to Save Tr.im
One of the big concerns about URL shortening services is that the URLs turn meaningless as soon as the short URL service goes under. One such service, Tr.im, has just shut down, but the very successful Bit.ly wants to take over Tr.im URLs to prevent this from happening. [Mashable]
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