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WalmartLabs acquires Tasty Labs
- leeoniya 13y agoso what's Tasty Labs?
- jamesbritt 13y agoGood question. I read the article and I still don't think I know. Impressive back-patting going on there, though.
- ambiate 13y agoCrunchbase -- 'Tasty Labs is a startup founded by the founder of Delicious, Joshua Schachter, and ex googler Paul Rademacher and former Mozilla Director of Add-Ons, Nick Nguyen. Tasty Labs goal is to try and put “the useful back into social software”.' skills.io, human.io, jig.com seem to be relevant to Tasty Labs, which are now redirecting to said article.
- revelation 13y agoSo that still doesn't tell us any more. From this, it reads like a scheme to sell some social app to stupid industry behemoths like WalMart.
- jamesbritt 13y agoAfter seeing enough things that meet that description I'm starting to think that, no, really, that's it. That's exactly, and all, it is. Apparently "Scheme to sell some social app to stupid industry behemoths" is in fact a thing.
- leeoniya 13y agoyes, that's really not helpful :(
- gizzlon 13y agohuman.io was cool and has a lot of potential.. did it just go offline? :'( http://human.io http://human.io
- huherto 13y agoThere is some information here... http://www.forbes.com/sites/quentinhardy/2011/01/26/is-tasty-labs-the-next-great-social-play/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/quentinhardy/2011/01/26/is-tasty... I guess is like stackoverflow. But you are allowed to make recommendations or post subjective opinions.
- stevesearer 13y agoTastyLabs in the Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TkuH07zK7nUJ:www.tastylabs.com/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TkuH07z... Based on this, it looks like they had an app called Jig. Jig.com redirects to the Walmart post, but the blog is still live. http://blog.jig.com/ http://blog.jig.com/
- orangethirty 13y agoWeren't those guys building some sort of complicated forum software that sort of worked like SO?
- badclient 13y agoWonder if Marissa Mayer, who is on Walmart's board, had any influence on an acquisition like this.
- quellhorst 13y agoLooks like an acquihire. The things Tasty Labs were working on are not very related to Walmart.
- yan 13y agocongrats joshu!
- SureshG 13y agoand OneOps also
- mshron 13y agoJig was excellent, some very clear talent involved there. Curious to see what comes next. Best of luck to all of you!
- huherto 13y agoSo, what is Walmart paying for? Talent, or they really have an insight that is going to make Wallmart more competitive?
- josephjrobison 13y agoLots of subdued excitement in the Walmart post. Sounds very coporatespeak. But good for them...
- jaydub 13y agoWhat's next for joshu?
- chintan 13y ago1. Walmart paid $300m to buy Kosmix/RightHealth to create @WalmartLabs http://techland.time.com/2011/04/19/walmart-purchases-kosmix-opens-walmartlabs-for-social-shopping-experience/ http://techland.time.com/2011/04/19/walmart-purchases-kosmix... 2. The original Kosmix founders left in a year - http://gigaom.com/2012/06/22/walmartlabs-loses-kosmix-founders/ http://gigaom.com/2012/06/22/walmartlabs-loses-kosmix-founde... 3. Rinse and Repeat with "Tasty Labs"
- uptown 13y ago"HousingMaps was a pioneer of the Ajax revolution" It was?
- pamelafox 13y agoHousingMaps was the first to reverse engineer Google Maps, which helped Google realize the potential of an API and motivate them to make it a real thing. That API was one of the first very popular JS APIs on the web (it was #1 on programmableweb.com for years), and may have been many developer's first introduction to AJAX(JSONP) based APIs/UIs. (I worked on the Maps API for 4 years, so that's based on what I remember).
- fourstar 13y agoI feel like Joshua is just good at acquisitions. I noticed he updated his position to advisor @ walmart labs today on my LinkedIn feed so I knew something was up. Nice job.