"Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority." - Mark Krynsky from Bookmarklet

Every person who thinks this merger is good for anyone other than the FriendFeed designers needs to read, and re-read, that paragraph for all eternity. - Akiva

I'm hoping for the best and appreciate Paul being candid and do think he will put some effort into pleasing the community http://friendfeed.com/paul... but the future doesn't look too good for FF to remain a thriving service moving forward. - Mark Krynsky

concerned regarding API. Now in Facebook everything is private. SO their json API which used to give all details out is certainly going down. Looking for some service which can replace FF and i can publish lifestream on my website again. Hope FF ppl reply back soon. - Jigar Shah

Yeah that's all to be expected. I mean, Paul has no real power over how FB is going to handle things. This story has been played out a million times in SV. Nice while it lasted! - anna sauce

Silver Lining to this - from what I have been reading there are a lot of folks looking to do a FF Clone or spin off. It will be interesting to see what people create, and the passion that they had for FF. - Comics Forge