socialmedian: Gary Burd Exits Facebook Two Months After FriendFeed Acquisition

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Gary Burd Exits Facebook Two Months After FriendFeed Acquisition

Source: louisgray-com

Oct 17, 2009

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Following the August acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook, the site's loyal users are still waiting for news about whether the social network and aggregator has a future, or barring that, when elements of the site will start populating Facebook. But for the most part, there has been little news, and some are pointing to reduced traffic and engagement there as signs the product will just fade away - even as I hear rumors that's not the case. But this week, we learned of the first high-profile defection from the FriendFeed ranks at Facebook, as highly-respected engineer Gary Burd, who also counts Google and Microsoft on his resume, quit the social networking giant this Wednesday.

Burd, who helped develop the Trident HTML rendering engine, a main ingredient in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4, during his seven years at the Redmond monolith, and also contributed to Google projects including Google Talk during his four-year stint in Mountain View. He joined FriendFeed in June of 2008 after he had independently developed a service that let users update the site via ...Read the full article

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