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Mark Zuckerberg and FriendFeed Co-Founders Celebrate Deal [Pic]

Mashable  Aug 10 09

How was the Facebook-FriendFeed deal consummated? Apparently, while grilling sausages in Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s backyard.

Zuckerberg posted a photo of himself along with FriendFeed co-founders Paul Buchheit, James Norris, Bret Taylor to his Facebook account, with the caption “Photo from our negotiation / signing party last night with the FriendFeed founders. We spent a lot of the evening around the table in my back yard grilling sausages and discussing the future.”

Here’s the photo:

The FriendFeed guys appear to have the bigger smiles on their face, but, as it turns out, they have around 50 million reasons to be happy today. Full story...

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