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Facebook Has Its First CTO And He Is FriendFeed’s Co-Founder Bret Taylor

Posted June 2, 2010 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb8 Facebook Has Its First CTO And He Is FriendFeed’s Co Founder Bret Taylor

Looks like FriendFeed is set to get more of its influence on Facebook as the social networking site promoted FriendFeed founder, Bret Taylor to the position of its CTO. We had reported the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook for $50 Million back in 2009. Bret has been the man who has tried to make it simpler to Facebook anyone, not sure how many have actually benefitted though.

If I be not wrong, I had stated that the social network is adopting more and more from FriendFeed. It’s evident, I mean ever since the acquisition, we have seen more FriendFeed like features, for example the Like button, share, comments, etc. In fact the reworked Facebook has a lot coming in from Bret’s brainchild. Given that there is a lot of influence of FriendFeed on Facebook, Bret has rightly been given the long vacant CTO position, where he will be able to more easily bring in FF ideas and further improve the Facebook platform. In email from Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO defines Bret’s role as follows:

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Facebook Takes Steps Towards More Openness: Tests OAuth WRAP On FriendFeed

Posted December 22, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb114 Facebook Takes Steps Towards More Openness: Tests OAuth WRAP On FriendFeed

What could be the best thing you could do to make sure your product or initiatives are a success? A testing ground for sure and Facebook appears to have one which it acquired some time earlier: FriendFeed. It appears that the social network found more purposes other than just using its immense talent to its advantage.

What Facebook is doing is testing its OAuth WRAP feature on FriendFeed and all this would actually have a lot of feedback coming from users out there, primarily the developers before it actually plans to implement it across Facebook. WRAP is a bit different from the regular OAuth in a manner that it puts away the use of the long signatures. This means that you don’t need to remember the much disliked secrets and signatures. In my opinion WRAP is al about taking OAuth to the next level by removing the complexity involved in using OAuth for developers. Plus it adds to another step that giants like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook are taking initiatives to simplify the open standard.

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Did FriendFeed get influenced by Facebook as a Major Bug surfaces

Posted September 11, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb26 Did FriendFeed get influenced by Facebook as a Major Bug surfaces

Alright I should stop yelling at Facebook and the problems it has with security, etc. Why? Because FriendFeed has a vulnerability, call it being influenced by Facebook (I know I am being skeptical about the social network). The bug lets you make FriendFeed posts as any one by sending a message via email. The proof is someone making a post as FriendFeed’s founder, Bret Taylor. FriendFeed has been quick at taking action and shutting down email posting to the service.

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Test the artist in you, create your own FriendFeed themes

Posted August 14, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb61 Test the artist in you, create your own FriendFeed themes

FriendFeed had earlier launched themes to make FriendFeed better looking (the duck hunter). I guess that wasn’t enough so the team decided to let its users practice their own creativity and make their own. Select Custom theme, upload a background you would love to have (as ugly as you want to get), modify color combinations and there you have it. You might consider that theme to be the best piece of art or might be knocked in to senses by a friend who says it’s crap not so nice and needs to changed. Jokes apart, the idea to let users create their own themes always sounds good and might just have its users all excited.

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Facebook Lite.. Is it Facebook going FriendFeed or Twitter?

Posted August 12, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb52 Facebook Lite.. Is it Facebook going FriendFeed or Twitter?

It had to happen, something closer to FriendFeed after Facebook acquired it. The social network has released a simplified version of its service called Facebook Lite for a few lucky users. The idea is to make Facebook more lighter and faster which I guess needs to happen, but from what the reports states, it is more closely associated to Twitter. I am not sure on what and how it is, for I haven’t been able to access it, however from the screen shots its appears to be a bit of both FriendFeed and Twitter. I am not sure how this is taken by all, but I appreciate it happening as it makes things a lot simpler (as it appears) but at the same time it kills the very purpose of what Facebook is on the Web at the same time making it more accessible on Mobile devices.

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And if FriendFeed was Hitler’s favorite….

Posted August 11, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

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Ben Darnell quits Google Reader, jumps to FriendFeed

Posted July 28, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb131 Ben Darnell quits Google Reader, jumps to FriendFeed

While Google is trying allure to use more of its Book Search by offering free Sony e-book readers, its Reader team waved goodbye Ben Darnell. He had been a key member of Google Reader team and will now be a part of FriendFeed. This is the first key hiring by FriendFeed in over a year and Ben will lend his expertise at data storage and scalibility.

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FriendFeed opens hunting season with Duck Hunt Theme

Posted July 15, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

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And now Search on FriendFeed is Real Time too

Posted July 2, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb13 And now Search on FriendFeed is Real Time too

Real time is what almost every service is trying to integrate it in some way. However FriendFeed is running ahead with the idea and it all began with its redesign. Today it also put that real time-ness into its search, meaning that whatever term you search will show results that are updated with the latest updates associated to your search query. What’s more important is that you can also share and embed the search in your blog and it updates in real time as well. You can see one below:

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FriendFeed becomes more useful as it enables users to share files, MP3s

Posted June 24, 2009 by Sardar Mohkim Khan

image thumb121 FriendFeed becomes more useful as it enables users to share files, MP3s

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