Can't fully blame them, though. Arrington's got the clout. I mean, heck, if you're going to sell out to Facebook, you might as well go the full nine and sell out to TechCrunch, too. - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm actually waiting to find out that Taco Bell and Mountain Dew have something to do with this. - Akiva Moskovitz

I thought they had already started selling out to Arrington with the disabled comments feature. - CAJ, somewhere else

Damn, I could really go for some tacos now. - Akiva Moskovitz

Massive PR stunt though... ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

What did Arrington ever do for friendfeed in the past? Nothing. He ignored embargoes and completely dissed the service at every turn. By choosing him the friendfeed staff showed that they don't care about working with people that respect contracts and doing things right. Instead of going with the people that built the community, they chose a hack...nice. - Alex Scoble

Yeah I know mate... maybe, just maybe the facebook people wanted that.. who knows? - Rob Sellen :o)

Alex: do you know that it was the FriendFeed staff? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

You thinking that someone at Facebook leaked it to Arrington? - Alex Scoble from IM

That said I do wish I had gotten a call. But it was clear that Facebook's PR was in charge. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Arrington had it right: "At the end of the day, this wonderful company may tire of swimming upstream and go for an easy exit. I’m sure that a number of larger companies would love to snap up FriendFeed to get the technology, team and userbase. I mean, it’s not like Google is just going to sit there and watch this all play out without them. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think I am." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Luca Sofri

That's what I was meaning too.... you know.. its the coverage they get over it... I think facebook would be pulling them strings considering it's them making the buy. - Rob Sellen :o)

Alex: there are two companies involved. I don't know who leaked it to Arrington. I also was on my iPhone. I was lucky to have looked at Twitter as the story was breaking. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Alex, what makes you think that either company leaked the information to us? They didn't. It's called reporting. And if you knew how to read you'd see that it was one of our writers, Jason Kincaid, and not Michael who broke the story. - Erick Schonfeld

Right, reporting...Reporting a story before it's been officially released requires a leak. And I'm sorry, but I don't read TechCrunch...for good reason. - Alex Scoble

By the way, I was thinking more about Louis Gray when I wrote this than anyone else. - Alex Scoble

Yeah, it would have been really cool if Louis had the scoop. - Aviv