Facebook has acquired social networking site aggregator FriendFeed.

Financial details of the deal were not announced, but all FriendFeed employees will join Facebook and senior executive at FriendFeed will join Facebook's engineering and product teams, Facebook said in a release.

"As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle," FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor wrote in a blog post.

FriendFeed aggregates and publishes updates from sites like Twitter, Yelp, Netflix, Blogger, and Flickr in one stream. It debuted in 2007 and is the brainchild of Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh  all former Google employees who worked on products like Gmail and Google Maps.

"Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends," Taylor said in a statement.

"It was immediately obvious to us how passionate Facebook's engineers are about creating simple, ground-breaking ways for people to share, and we are extremely excited to join such a like-minded group," Buchheit added.

FriendFeed will continue to operate normally "for the time being," Taylor said in his blog post, including the company API.

"We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team," he wrote, urging users to watch the FriendFeed News group for updates.

"Since I first tried FriendFeed, I've admired their team for creating such a simple and elegant service for people to share information," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, said in a statement. "As this shows, our culture continues to make Facebook a place where the best engineers come to build things quickly that lots of people will use."

FriendFeed unveiled a new beta of its service in April, a version PCMag.com found to be innovative but a bit overwhelming.