Facebook Acquired FriendFeed

Facebook announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. Taylor and Buchheit founded FriendFeed along with Jim Norris and Sanjeev Singh in October 2007 after all four played key roles at Google for products like Gmail and Google Maps. At FriendFeed, they’ve brought together a world-class team of engineers and designers.

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeed’s four founders will hold senior roles on Facebook’s engineering and product teams. Read full story »

Zoho Mail With Offline EMail Access and Mobile Support

Zoho Mail provides offline support for email. You can download emails, images and attachments in offline mode. Zoho Mail automatically detects connectivity and switches to online/offline modes. Zoho Mail has no advertisements and also has no storage limit. Read full story »

HelloTxt – Microblogging Aggregator Service

HelloTxt is an aggregate of microblogging services through which the user can simply insert their messages on all main microblogging services. It is simple simultaneous and instantaneous.
HelloTxt supports status updates to the most important services including Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce.
With HelloTxt a single message can reach different services at the same time without writing … Read full story »

The OpenSocial API by Google

OpenSocial is currently being developed by Google in conjunction with members of the web community. With OpenSocial, you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social … Read full story »

Jaxtr.com – Free Phone to Phone Calls Worldwide

Jaxtr links phone to the web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your existing phone number private. You can use Jaxtr to receive calls and voice messages from people worldwide while keeping your phone number private.
You don’t need a headset or broadband to use Jaxtr. No download required. It works with … Read full story »