Valley behemoth Facebook just bought 12-person startup and vanguard of the real-time web Friendfeed. Once again,Techcrunch’s Jason Kincaid had the scoop at least 20 minutes before tech badass Kara Swisher at All Things D got the press release (we too had to find out the Techcrunch way).

What does this mean for the info economy (i.e. the way we report news)?

Well, Friendfeed’s biggest evangelist, Robert Scoble, who confirmed to LAWeekly.com that he did not get the news before Arrington, had this answer to the question on everybody’s mind:

Is the Friendfeed platform going to fold into Facebook?

Read more at “Facebook Buys Friendfeed, Because Techcrunch Says So.”