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Facebook acquires FriendFeed
So here's the deal. Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a site that few people have heard about, but which social networking nerds love. FriendFeed basically lets you keep track of activity on all of your social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, and dozens of others) from one place. Users can comment on one another's feeds, and nobody's limited to 140 characters.
Over the past few months, Facebook has implemented similar "lifestreaming" features into its own social networking site. The front page of Facebook looks a lot more like FriendFeed or Twitter these days, with real-time updates from your friends activity streams. And you can link some third party social networks to your Facebook account.
As part of the acquisition, the entire FriendFeed team will be joining Facebook, where they will likely bring more of FriendFeed's featureset to Facebook. For now, FriendFeed.com will continue to operate, but it's not clear whether Facebook will continue to operate FriendFeed as a separate site after the transition is complete.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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jfjb said 10:23PM on 8-10-2009
Has anyone anything to do before breakfast?
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