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Facebook acquires Hot Potato
- jm3 16y agoMeet the new Facebook Places team!
- redorb 16y agofacebook said they have been working on places for 8 months or so / Techcrunch reported hotpotatoe being acquired about a month ago... If they kept the secret for 7 months I would be impressed; perhaps a talent acquisition to work on places (and some added IP)
- niico 16y agoIs it true they are shutting them down?
- poobox 16y agohttp://blog.hotpotato.com/post/982892868/weve-moved-to-facebook http://blog.hotpotato.com/post/982892868/weve-moved-to-faceb... that's what they say in their blog about it. No new registrations, a path to download your data, and shut down in about a month.
- niico 16y agoprobably they are going to use their core engine or something like that. or probably not. who knows...
- eam 16y agoCongratulations! >"Facebook is still small" Is that an understatement?
- caffogene 16y agoFacebook is a large website, but their product portfolio is small. Like I wouldn't say 3M, GE, HP, or even Google are small.
- acqq 16y agoAnybody to explain what was Hot Potato site anyway? I see it's a site where you register and post stuff. But what was unique for it?
- apgwoz 16y agoIt started out as a way to talk about events that were happening now. So, you'd more or less check into an event and be able to converse. Then, it turned into another twitter clone, where you could post what you were doing, listening too, whatever, and then you could have inline conversations about it. Nothing terribly exciting, but enough to get the attention of Facebook. I'm guessing this was all for talent and nothing more.