FlightCaster (YC S09) Acquired

I was aware of that, I was hoping for some "word on the street" type of information.

Super news for you guys, that's less than 18 months from launch to acquisition, really cool.

What I really love about this deal is this line:

"Before we go any further, let us address our users. FlightCaster.com will stay right where it is and continue to provide flight delay prediction for free. We're also making our mobile app free -- you can download it now. We'll continue to use our powerful algorithms to predict flight delays. We'll continue to push the envelope on getting the best travel intelligence to people when they need it."

How much better is that than: "hey our team just got acquired by Facebook/Some other 500 # gorilla and we'll be shutting down our service next week".

That really sets a good example on how it is done.

Congratulations! Flightcaster seems like an awesome execution. Now I'm excited to see what you have planned... even though Woven is ambitious, you have the track record to pull it off!

Another nice Lisp/Clojure success story. http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/9203e07d197dbd29

Mentioning that, does anybody know what happened to Postabon, another Lisp startup, which went silent a while ago?

Why next jump acquired flightcaster? (May be they also want to combine their ecommerce shop with flights along with price predictions data as a differentiator) but why?