Facebook to shut down FriendFeed on April 9, five years after acquiring the service
We wanted to let you know that … Kelly Fiveash / The Register : Facebook-owned, Billy-no-mates FriendFeed starves to death Brett Molina / USA Today : Tech Five: Qualcomm jumps off dividend boost Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : RIP: Facebook is closing Friendfeed April 9 Daniel Terdiman / VentureBeat : Facebook shutting down FriendFeed, citing declining usage Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Five years later, Facebook is shutting down FriendFeed Tweets: Louis Gray / @louisgray : First FriendFeed and now GigaOm. 2009 is pissed. Kevin Fox / @kfury : Thank you Facebook for keeping the FriendFeed servers fed and happy for nearly six years. 70% of FriendFeed's lifespan was post-acquisition. Mark Krynsky / @krynsky : What a sad day. Goodbye to such a fantastic tech site in @Gigaom and the end for social pioneering service @friendfeed both were treasures Richard Nevins / @hornokplease : “Why Facebook Wants @friendfeed” by @om (2009): https://t.co/6CNhbbL6G7 Alex Howard / @digiphile : 2009 was an eon ago, in Internet time, & yet many modern social media platforms aren't as dynamic as Friendfeed was: http://blog.louisgray.com/...