http://friendfeed.com/

About FriendFeed

Our goal is to make content on the Web more useful and discoverable by taking advantage of your social connections. FriendFeed is a simple tool that scratches the surface of that goal by making it easier to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet.

With FriendFeed, you list the people you want to keep in touch with. They let us know what services they use (e.g., Flickr or Facebook or Picasa Web Albums), and you get a personalized feed of what they are up to. So, if your friend favorites a video on YouTube, you get a link and a thumbnail of the video in your feed. And if your friend likes a news story on Digg, you get a link in your feed. You don't need to install anything to use FriendFeed — our crawling technology automatically picks up all the stuff you do on the web sites you already use with no additional effort on your part.

FriendFeed makes all the sites you already use a little more social, letting your friends discover the stuff you discover, comment on it, and share it.

You can use FriendFeed on FriendFeed.com, or if you already use Facebook, you can add our Facebook application to connect your Facebook profile to all the other products you use around the web. You can also view your FriendFeed in your iGoogle homepage or read it in a feed reader. If you make your FriendFeed publicly visible (kind of like a blog that writes itself), you can embed your FriendFeed in your home page or blog.

FriendFeed is currently in private beta testing so we can get feedback and bug reports from early adopters. We will be opening up the service to everyone in the next month or so based on their feedback. If you want to be a FriendFeed beta tester, sign up on our waiting list, and we will give you an account as soon as we have the capacity.

Let us know what you think in the FriendFeed discussion group or check our our FAQ for more information.

About the Company

FriendFeed was founded by Bret Taylor, Jim Norris, Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh (and we're hiring).

Bret, Jim, Paul and Sanjeev previously worked at Google, where they designed and launched many products, most notably Google Maps, the Google Maps API, Google's developer program, Gmail and Google Groups. Paul is also responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto and the first AdSense prototype. Prior to Google, Bret worked at Reactivity, Paul worked at Intel and Sanjeev worked at Thirdvoice.com. Bret, Jim and Sanjeev hold Computer Science degrees from Stanford University and Paul holds a Computer Science degree from Case Western Reserve University.

Bret and Jim created FriendFeed while working as Entrepreneurs in Residence at Benchmark Capital.