"Social networking giant Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. This deal reflects Facebook's growing fixation on the social stream, but it's hard to see how the two services will be merged." - Steven Perez, FF Bunneh from Bookmarklet

"Although FriendFeed and the Facebook stream provide a similar user experience, there are some fundamental cultural and technical differences between them. FriendFeed's privacy model is less granular and restrictive, encouraging users to make their stream content publicly available. FriendFeed also has strong support for aggregating content from elsewhere, rather than pushing users to keep everything within a single service, as Facebook does. The two services are also different from the perspective of third-party developers. Facebook's somewhat baroque authentication system, complex application platform, and powerful but esoteric SQL-like query system all add up to a steep learning curve. By comparison, FriendFeed has a simple and elegant API that exposes a lot of information and is much more accommodating to developers. All of these differences are going to be difficult to reconcile, and it's hard to imagine what kind of offspring will be produced by this peculiar union." - Steven Perez, FF Bunneh

One of the thoughts I'm wrestling with is that perhaps I don't see how the two will be merged b/c I see each service as separate. Would the merging of these two services simply be the subversion of a subset of the lesser's make-up to substantiate the greater's desire for an architectural overall of its real time stream? In other words, perhaps you don't see the writing on the wall that FriendFeed may be cannibalized to feed Facebook... or perhaps not and I'm completely wrong. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

That's exactly what I've always maintained: FF would be pulled apart and the good parts folded into FB, and then the remaining users gets folded into the larger FB framework. - Steven Perez, FF Bunneh from IM

Change certainly is the breeding ground for uncertainty. The fruit of uncertainty is distrust, angst, and opportunity. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart