Facebook acquires Hot Potato

#1

Post by agconway » Fri, Aug 20, 2010, 6:16 PM UTC

Facebook acquires Hot Potato
blog.hotpotato.com

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

#2

Post by jm3 » Fri, Aug 20, 2010, 6:24 PM UTC

Meet the new Facebook Places team!

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

#3

Post by redorb » Fri, Aug 20, 2010, 7:22 PM UTC

jm3 wrote: post #2

Meet the new Facebook Places team!

facebook 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)

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

#4

Post by niico » Fri, Aug 20, 2010, 9:17 PM UTC

Is it true they are shutting them down?

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

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Post by poobox » Fri, Aug 20, 2010, 10:15 PM UTC

niico wrote: post #4

Is it true they are shutting them down?

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.

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

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Post by eam » Fri, Aug 20, 2010, 11:32 PM UTC

Congratulations!

>"Facebook is still small"

Is that an understatement?

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

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Post by caffogene » Sat, Aug 21, 2010, 12:06 AM UTC

eam wrote: post #6

Congratulations! >"Facebook is still small" Is that an understatement?

Facebook is a large website, but their product portfolio is small. Like I wouldn't say 3M, GE, HP, or even Google are small.

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

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Post by niico » Sat, Aug 21, 2010, 3:55 AM UTC

poobox wrote: post #5

niico wrote: post #4

Is it true they are shutting them down?

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.

probably they are going to use their core engine or something like that. or probably not. who knows...

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

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Post by acqq » Sat, Aug 21, 2010, 8:10 AM UTC

Anybody 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?

Re: Facebook acquires Hot Potato

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Post by apgwoz » Sat, Aug 21, 2010, 1:57 PM UTC

acqq wrote: post #9

Anybody 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?

It 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.