FriendFeed is not much different than Twitter.  Short posts, following people and gathering followers, etc., etc.  So why the huge news across the web about this acquisition.  In short, Facebook happens to be the fastest growing social site ever.

The idea of social networking and microblogging is nothing new.  Twitter, Tumblr, FriendFeed and many others have been around for a few years now.  But when a social powerhouse like Facebook takes you over amazing things can happen.

Will Facebook Pull FriendFeed Out of the Mire?

The question now is what will happen to FriendFeed?  Will it start providing real competition for Twitter?  Will Facebook shut it down?

As of now there are no reported plans to shut down FriendFeed.  According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch.com in his interview with FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor and Facebook VP Products Chris Cox, “Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook.”

Some other structural changes will occur within the 12 employee start-up like who everybody reports to,etc.  Aside from that not much will change…or will it?

I decided to do some research into what has happened with FriendFeed since the acquisition and found some interesting information.  According to Alexa, FriendFeed has experienced over 63% growth in traffic over the last 3 months, much of it occurring this month.

Whether Facebook will help put FriendFeed at the top of the microblogging world or not is still to be determined.  But having backing like Facebook can’t hurt.  We’ll all just have to add it to our list of social networking outlets and see how it goes.

Social networking is on the rise around the globe.

Much of this seems to be related to the disparate nature of social networking. People have to find you on Twitter, Facebook, Ning, MySpace and numerous others and then you have to find them to interact.

Today a new face enters the ring to tackle the time consumption and disparate nature of social networking. In the blue corner we have GizaPage. GizaPage (still in beta) aims at being a social network organizer.

According to folks at GizaPage, “GizaPage provides a secure and centralized way to share profiles while more deeply engaging online with others by exploring their profiles and identifying additional social networks they have in common.”

Features and Profiles on GizaPage

One of the overwhelmingly important features of GizaPage is your personal profile page that allows you to show all your social accounts side-by-side for the public to enjoy. The feature will be nice for the average user who is active on social accounts but also for job hunting purposes. Many marketing and freelance resumes include social account information to show various abilities and now it can all be done in one place.

More GizaPage Features

• Security – Set accessibility levels to control what is seen by whom.
• Connect – Connect with friends and build a network directly on GizaPage.
• More Friends – Upload email lists of contacts as well as social site contacts.
• Compare – Compare friends profiles side-by-side as well as your own.
• Cohesiveness – View all your social accounts side-by-side so you can easily create a cohesive brand look across them all.

The features and usability are pretty basic to understand. You create an account and a personal URL for your public GizaPage, import contacts from your social sites individually, pin your social accounts to your GizaPage and start letting people know about it.

Pinning is basically connecting to your various social accounts so that they can be viewed and interacted with on your page. There are over 40 social sites that you can add including the following:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Digg
• Magnolia
• Furl
• Flickr
• FriendFeed
• Last.fm
• LinkedIn
• And many more

All of this provides businesses and individuals the ability to create a real persona across the board on their social networking sites. And that persona can be viewed in its entirety on one nicely laid out, tabbed web page.