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this has to be a talent acquisition. i wonder how long before gowalla product is mothballed? also wonder how little of a return their investors got?

The article implies immediate product death.

I had never heard of them

Facebook does only talent acquisitions. They never buy products.

Beluga was a product acquisition.

as was Snaptu.

Facebook used parts of FriendFeed actively after acquiring them: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/301/

Do Facebook use Tornado internally, on anything other than FriendFeed.com?