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MischMasch 2009-08-10

Facebook acquired FriendFeed. For the time being FriendFeed will continue as it is. News about the acquisition have been on Mashable, Current, TechCrunch and everywhere else. Some people think it was a good move, Steve Rubel names it the best news he has heard in awhile, Tara Hunt guesses that it is a talent acquisition and a lot of people are not happy with this news. (Via FriendFeed Blog and Facebook Press Room)

URL shortener tr.im shuts down because of lack of monetization. Links will work until at least December 31st, 2009. (Via Mashable)

There is a new release of the Qype API including JSON support, read/write and no more OAuth for reads. (Via Qype on Twitter)

Microsoft sells it’s online interactive ad agency Razorfish they have been owning since the aQuantive acquisition in 2007. (Via Mashable)

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By Georg Portenkirchner
— August 10, 2009 at 23:03
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  1. For everyone who thinks that more URL shortener services may go away and create a bit amount of dead links: 10 Tools to run an URL Shortener on your own Domain

    Georg Portenkirchner — August 11, 2009 @ 23:21 —



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  1. [...] acquisition of FriendFeed I mentioned yesterday received a lot of response. Robert Scoble thinks about leaving FriendFeed, Khoi Vinh tweeted that [...]

    MischMasch 2009-08-11 – portenkirchner.net — August 13, 2009 @ 0:22

  2. [...] shortener tr.im, that announced to shut down and then re-opened again, will become public domain, 100% community-owned, operated, and developed. [...]

    MischMasch 2009-08-17 – portenkirchner.net — August 19, 2009 @ 0:21