Facebook acquired FriendFeed and we all knew all that came with it. The brains and the technology plus the possibility on leveraging a very useful service online. Today Facebook announced something I wasn’t expecting it to for quite some time to come; Open sourcing a part of it. The Social Network released Tornado, a real time framework for Python. The framework will be able to handle traffic simultaneously with its support for the many tough tasks associated to Web Development. These include localization, user authentication like Facebook Connect, etc. This would improve the quality of service at a high performance rate. I will be running through the details and you can download and read it here.
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There are certain things that just come out of the blues and Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed is one such example. The social networking site has acquired the sharing service for a reported $50 Million which includes $15 Million in all out cash and the remaining as share in Facebook stock. That’s quite a health sum, given that FriendFeed had only raised $5 Million in venture funding. Now is this supposed to workout? I am not sure but we earlier reported Facebook stepping ahead in search, perhaps the realtime-ness in search came in because it had acquired FriendFeed, just an assumption though. FriendFeed will continue to work independently for the time being while the team tailors plans for a long term relationship.
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