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.
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.
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.
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[ 4.9 ms ] story [ 39.3 ms ] threadAnyone else have ideas on what else they could be using Daytum for?
They call them "talent acquisitions."
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
I don't really see what the big deal is - founders know what they are being acquired for, and they can reject it.