Facebook Acquires Daytum (Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton)

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30 points·bkudria··7 comments

Facebook acquires Daytum or Daytum founders hired by Facebook?

My thought too. Either way, they're gaining access to Nicholas Felton's brain -- anyone who can make their daily minutiae as interesting as he does in his annual reports is worth the cost of admission for a company like Facebook.

I guess you could say that about almost all of its acquisitions: Drop.Io, FriendFeed, Parakey, Beluga, etc.

They call them "talent acquisitions."

A lot of people are surprisingly down on acquisitions like this. I think that if a company acquires a company, with the sole intention of using the talent and expertise in a different product - that is okay.

I don't really see what the big deal is - founders know what they are being acquired for, and they can reject it.

This is neat. Definitely checkout [1] if you're confused as to how it might be used. There are some good examples there.

These guys seem to have a unique perspective on human-data interaction and sharing. For example, the "Global Quick Add Feature" [2] is very intuitive. It seems like this is something Facebook is very interested in as it's essential to their product. I definitely agree with some of the other comments made here - I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook wants these guys working for them at least as much as they are interested in their actual product given their perspective and understanding.

[1] http://daytum.com/activity [2] http://daytum.com/about/how_to/global_quick_add

It be awesome to get Daytum stylized info graphs on all my FB data! I am really excited for this acquisition!

Anyone else have ideas on what else they could be using Daytum for?

I really hope this doesn't change the Daytum service.. I've been a daily user for over four months now and it's been extremely helpful.

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