Facebook buys Gowalla

Re:Facebook buys Gowalla by oldstrangers on Friday December 02, 2011 @10:51PM (#3306843)

Facebook does have a solid design team, but I wonder where all that talent is being directed? Visually, their hires in the past year or so haven't made an impact with facebook.com. At least with Google's new design team, you can see what they're doing.

So, one has to ask, what are these people working on? A facebook phone? Facebook X.0?

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Re:Facebook buys Gowalla by fufulabs on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:14PM (#3306888)

My bet is Facebook OS on top of Android ala Kindle Fire. the UX will be its only differentiator so much care is needed there.

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Re:Facebook buys Gowalla by untog on Saturday December 03, 2011 @11:10AM (#3307999)

I really, really hope Facebook doesn't do that. It makes absolutely no sense for anyone to buy a Facebook tablet, unless they intentionally cripple the capabilities of their apps on other tablet platforms.

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Re:Facebook buys Gowalla by irollboozers on Saturday December 03, 2011 @04:30PM (#3308908)

this just blew my mind.

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Re:Facebook buys Gowalla by gujk on Saturday December 03, 2011 @02:44AM (#3307225)

If the Facebook's new designers do nothing new at all, but they hold the line against Google-style insane UX-destroying experimentation, they will be incredibly valuable.

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Re:Facebook buys Gowalla by simonw on Saturday December 03, 2011 @04:49AM (#3307399)

Have you seen the new Facebook timeline thing? It's a pretty supeb piece of product design, and it looks really nice too.

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Re:Facebook buys Gowalla by uptown on Saturday December 03, 2011 @08:28AM (#3307698)

Path's new implementation of the timeline looks and feels more mature in my opinion.

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