Facebook has acquired NextStop, a San Francisco-based startup that let netizens share advice on where to go and what to do. NextStop's employees — including two former Google product managers — will be joining Facebook, and its site will be shut down on September 1. If you're currently using the service — whose goal was to …

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Thursday 8th July 2010 20:45 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hah!

"We’re shutting down the current version of nextstop so we can focus all of our attention on what comes next."

And what comes next is... stopping.

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Thursday 8th July 2010 22:10 GMT Gareth

Hiring bonus?

So basically, the founders got hired for a day-job at Facebook, and FB bought their startup for a nominal fee as a hiring bonus?

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Thursday 8th July 2010 23:49 GMT Anonymous Coward

personal data

No, they got it during due diligence.....

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Friday 9th July 2010 08:42 GMT Anonymous Coward

That's a good one

"Facebook has also acquired 'some' of NextStop's assets. But the firm says that no users' personal data will be shared with the social-networking behemoth."

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Friday 9th July 2010 08:42 GMT h 6

Possibly

Is this possibly a counter to foursquare and gowalla (spell?) ?

Fb wants in on the social "checking in" trend?

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Friday 9th July 2010 08:48 GMT Anonymous Coward

Best of luck

These things often don't work out. A lot of these great ideas come together because of the drive and ambition of those involved, the passion to try give something is what gets them noticed. Then some behemoth like FB comes along, strips the startup down and takes all the best bits. The "talent" is then assimilated into the behemoth and the chemistry of those taken in from the startup, is then lost forever.

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Friday 9th July 2010 13:25 GMT TeeCee

Data sharing.

So no personal data will be shared with Faceb0rk? Facebook's track record on data-sharing prevention in the past would seem to indicate they'll be the only ones on the entire planet who don't get a copy then.

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Friday 9th July 2010 16:05 GMT JeffyPooh

Facebook...

...2nd sloppiest programmers in the world (1st place being Symantec of course).

FB could certainly use some talent.

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Monday 12th July 2010 15:30 GMT L1feless

Lack of planning

I think a huge portion of Facebook's problems is that it was never built as a business. It seems to have a natural disconnect between different areas of its own site and that is likely due to a poor vision in part by their fearless leader.

Comparing that with the inherit synergies in Google's products (especially as of late) as well as its long term planning which has been made very public. It really does showcase the main differences in how the two operate.

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