Facebook Acquires Local Recommendations and Guide Service NextStop

[image error]In a blog post, NextStop announced today that they've been acquired by Facebook. NextStop is a service that lets users create and browse through local guides, a bit like a more personalized and non-centrally-edited WikiTravel.

The service had gotten a nice little bit of buzz from the startup community, and in the past couple months had actually issued a few fairly major updates. But to the likely chagrin of NextStop's users, Facebook will be actively shutting it down come September 1st.

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