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Confirmed: Mister Wong acquires Lifestream.fm

It's gossip no more: as rumored, Germany-based social-bookmarking site Mister Wong has acquired the social-media feed aggregator Lifestream.fm for an undisclosed amount. The news was originally reported on digital-media blog Mashable.

Mister Wong previously acquired Websnapr and Pixer.us, which were both created by Lifestream.fm founder Juan Xavier Larea.

Technology from Lifestream will likely be integrated into Mister Wong user profiles so that members can pull in feeds from their social-networking accounts across the Web.

"Mister Wong is 100 percent based on RSS, and we thought that (Lifestream) is a great extension for our user profiles, … Read more

Rumor: Social bookmarking site Mister Wong acquires Lifestream.fm?

So maybe today's social-media M&A gossip of the day involves two moderately-to-extremely minor players in the space, but hey, we can't always have juicy Facebook news. Mashable reported Tuesday that Mister Wong, a social bookmarking service, has acquired Lifestream.fm, a small social site that (as its name would suggest) aggregates data from multiple social-networking accounts into a single "lifestream."

No background is provided other than the report that the acquisition was made for an undisclosed amount.

Mister Wong, a European site, is a sort of cross between Delicious and StumbleUpon, generating recommendations based … Read more