This is one of those posts that wed rather bring to you quickly and fill in the blanks laterFacebook has just announced that it has agreed to acquire social network aggregator FriendFeed . Facebook today announced that it has agreed to acquire FriendFeed, the innovative service for sharing online. As part of the agreement, all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeeds four founders will hold senior roles on Facebooks engineering and product teams.

Facebook has agreed to buy online sharing service FriendFeed. In separate announcements , the companies said FriendFeed's 12 employees will join Facebook's staff and the companies will work to bring FriendFeed's capabilities into the Facebook use experience. While the marketing implications of the transaction are limited for the moment, the move is potentially interesting for advertisers in that it means Facebook is establishing a toehold outside its namesake service.

Facebook just announced that it is acquiring FriendFeed . All FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and FriendFeeds four founders will keep their senior roles on Facebooks engineering and product teams. "Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends," says FriendFeed Co-founder Bret Taylor.

Three South American domain registrars have lost their accreditation according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ). The reason for this is that they have failed to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The registrars involved include South American Domains, which does business under NameFrog.com, Simply Named (SimplyNamed.com), and Tahoe Domains.

The creators of the superb reverse image search engine Tineye have released a new useful tool: Multicolr , a search-by-color engine for Creative Commons licensed Flickr photos. The site says the image pool is 10 million images large. Note that when you click multiple colors, you will search for that particular color combo - you can remove older colors by clicking their trash icon. You can also click the same color multiple times to increase its importance in the mix.

Marin Software has added new features to its enterprise paid search management application, Marin Search Marketer. The new additions employ advanced ROI-based campaign management features to help search marketers move beyond a singular focus on bid management. "Today's search market place is highly dynamic with growing competition, the ever-present need to drive additional traffic, as well as ongoing quality score and match type changes," said Chris Lien,

Acquisio , a provider of paid search management software, has announced the acquisition of landing page maker Emovendo . The acquisition includes Emovendo's flagship product PageVester, a landing page application. "We're thrilled to announce the latest addition to our offering. This is an important milestone. Our customers will soon be able to gain control over the part of their marketing campaigns which has been in the hands of IT for so long,

by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Smokey the Bear (Searches increased by 5,038%). The forest mascot turns 65 . Joan Rivers (+3,740%). The "Celebrity Apprentice" winner got a dose of her own medicine with a roast . "Shark Tank" (+912%). The sink-or-swim reality show gives entrepreneurs a shot at making it big in business . Lollapalooza (+665%). The summer music extravaganza shook Chi-town . Anna Paquin (+158%).

Since we had a rather strong response to our coverage of the United States Marine Corps policy to not allow Marines to access social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter on the Marines network it seemed appropriate to see how this is handled across the pond. Now before going into this and making comparisons between the two reports I think it only fair to share a comment from one of our readers to the report regarding the USMC policy.

Employees should be more careful than ever about what sort of work-related information they post online. A new report indicates that companies are growing increasingly aware of inappropriate sharing, with many incidents resulting in someone getting fired. Proofpoint found that businesses have definitely become wary about blogs. An official statement claimed that, during the past year, "17 percent disciplined an employee for violating blog or message board policies,