AOL收购friendfeed竞争对手socialthing

We’ve received confirmation from AOL that the company has acquired Socialthing!, a lifestreaming service that competes with FriendFeed. We originally reported the deal on August 1.

AOL says that the Socialthing! team will report to SVP of AOL and GM of People Networks David Liu, and will be incorporated into its People Networks division. Socialthing’s lifestreaming will be integrated into a number of AOL’s community properties, including its social network Bebo and AIM, its popular chat service.

The acquisition comes during a tough time for AOL, which has recently been forced to institute a number of budget cuts. Despite its setbacks, AOL is still keen on keeping its valuable social properties healthy, and likely saw Socialthing! as a relatively cheap investment (the aquistion price was not released, but it was probably fairly small).

Socialthing launched only five months ago in private beta. Unlike most social news aggregators, the site employs a smart algorithm that can figure out who you’re friends with, so you don’t have to explicitly define a friends list for each service.(原文）

原连接：

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/14/confirmed-aol-acquires-lifestreaming-service-socialthing/

文章大意：

美国在线的这笔交易于8月1日进行的。收购后的整个团队Socialthing向SVP of AOL 和 GM of People Networks 汇报。

整合后的业务将更好的提供聊天室产品服务.

另外文中还提到了Socialthing在5个月前新闻聚合服务功能版本，它的一大特色是根据一套复杂的算法，智能的计算出用户推荐的朋友属性，并且支持模糊功能。。。

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