Facebook Acquires FriendFeed For An Undisclosed Amount of Money

Today, Facebook announced the acquisition of popular social networking site, FriendFeed.   FriendFeed is a service that allows users to share links and such online in an effective manner.

This acquisition serves two purposes, it addresses a need of continued innovation for Facebook to keep users satisfied and it brings along an experienced team of highly qualified engineers.  Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh are the four founders of FriendFeed and they will be assigned Senior positions among the Facebook staff.  The aforementioned group was also part of the Gmail and Google Maps project.

Facebook looks to continue their service improvements to keep old users happy and hopefully bring in new users.