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 »

Nokia 6760 in India – Price, Features and Speifications

Nokia 6760 slide is a messaging optimized device with a sliding QWERTY keypad. The Nokia 6760 slide offers fast and easy access to favourite social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter as well as email accounts from Ovi Mail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail and thousands of other email providers. Read full story »

Flock 2.0 – The Social Web 2.0 Browser – New Features

Flock, the social web browser, introduced 3 years ago, has now released Flock 2.0, the next generation. Flock 2.0 helps people to easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites. Flock 2.0 is powered by the same technology as Firefox 3 and web pages are render exactly the same as in Firefox. Most Firefox extensions will work in Flock, with some exceptions. Flock is available for Windows, Apple, Linux. Read full story »

BlackBerry Storm Touchscreen Smartphone in India by Vodafone

Blackberry Storm is the first touch-screen based BlackBerry smartphone, featuring “clickable touch-screen”, and supports multi-touches, taps and slides. It also features a built-in accelerometer. It provided a full HTML high-performance browser supporting file downloading, audio and video streaming, and built-in RSS support. Blackberry Storm supports e-mail, SMS, MMS, IM, Facebook and MySpace. Read full story »

Digsby – Multiple IM, Social Networking and Email Notifications

Digsby is a multiprotocol Instant Messaging client, a social networking tool and an email notification service. Digsby lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one buddy list. You can get alerts of events like new messages and status in your social network. Digsby provides new email notification service and lets you perform actions such as Delete or Report Spam with just one click, without visiting the email website. Read full story »