Why Facebook Wants FriendFeed
GigaOm | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: Om Malik calls it “the problem of plenty.” Facebook is trying to solve it by acquiring FriendFeed. Will news orgs compete?

Facebook Takes FriendFeed To Take On Twitter
TechCrunch | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: M&A, as always, is driven by startups building what incumbents should have but couldn’t.

karaswisher: Now That There’s FaceFeed, Does That Make Twoogle More Inevitable?: http://bit.ly/fET9I
Twitter | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: Winner – Best FF/Facbook Post Title

mathewi: Real-time reaction to FB/ @Friendfeed deal at http://friendfeed.com/bret [and at @scobleizer's page: @digiphile
Twitter | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: Meta FriendFeed acquisition.

mediatwit: Quick thought: What if Facebook is just buying FriendFeed to kill a potential competitor? Wonder if they’ll integrate it, kill FF site.
Twitter | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: Good question.

dangillmor: Facebook buys FriendFeed, combining two of the most popular social networking sites i rarely use
Twitter | August 10, 2009

BenLaMothe: Crap, crap, crap. My favourite URL shrinker, tr.im, is dead
Twitter | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: In a nutshell.

kleinmatic: tr.im’s collapse will have a more obvious and lasting effect than Facebook/Friendfeed.
Twitter | August 10, 2009

The Briefing: Who’s going to save your URL shortener from extinction?
Publishing 2.0 | August 10, 2009
Everything you need to know about the death of tr.im and the issue with URL shorteners but were afraid to ask. First draft of new Publishing 2.0 blog feature (this post is another first draft).

Bloglines On Life Support. This Story Needs An Ending
TechCrunch | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: Is RSS dead (re: Bloglines)? I don’t think it is, but who can resist “dead” memes?

Recession: Why Ad Industry Won’t Recover in Second Half
AdAge | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: Online and PR are “pockets” of strength in an otherwise bleak advertising forecast

USAA Bank Will Let Customers Deposit Checks by iPhone
New York Times | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: iPhone helping to kill another scourge of the paper-based world — physical check deposits.

ianbetteridge: The last company to try and control 3rd party software as Apple does on the iPhone was IBM with its mainframes. And we know how that ended.
Twitter | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: But the  iPhone is just a wee bit cooler than the IBM mainframe. And it’s consumer hardware.

carr2n: wake up call. @BradStone writes that you probably didn’t have your coffee before you checked this tweet: http://bit.ly/e2qGt
Twitter | August 10, 2009
Scott Karp says: For more and more people, the web has replaced newspapers as the first media they consume in the morning.

(Curated with ease using Publish2, thanks especially to Social Journalism features.)

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