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It’s no secret that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is interested in scooping up more startups in order to bring their talent on board. From Firefox creator Blake Ross’s Parakey (acquired in 2007<\/a>) through Gmail creator Paul Buchheit’s FriendFeed (acquired in 2009<\/a>), Facebook has made some very high-profile talent acquisitions already.<\/p>\nThis Fall, Zuckerberg got early access to his old friend Adam D’Angelo’s new question and answer site Quora<\/a> and used it to ask<\/a>: “What startups would be good talent acquisitions for Facebook?” <\/p>\n Sponsor<\/em> Other users of the site offered suggestions and people voted on those submitted company names. Quora is a tiny new site chock-full of Silicon Valley stars – guess which company was voted the best acquisition target?<\/p>\n The winner? Apture.com<\/a>, the provider of rich multi-media embedded pop-up windows for newspapers and blogs. Founder Tristan Harris is a former Apple engineer who built the first ad server for Wikia, the for-profit arm of Wikipedia, before launching Apture 3 years ago. We’ve given the product a positive review<\/a>.<\/p>\n The next most popular suggestion? Austin, Texas location based social networking service Gowalla<\/a>. Gowalla is run by CEO Josh Williams, who previously built and sold small business invoicing service Blinksale<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those sound like good suggestions and both got votes from other Facebook team members on Quora. Remember, this isn’t about what technologies should be integrated directly into Facebook – FriendFeed has become little more than an occasional test bed for Facebook feed developments. The question is about scooping up teams of red-hot developers.<\/p>\n Other suggestions offered include Dodgeball co-founder Dennis Crowley’s new location based social network Foursquare<\/a> (it’s only a matter of time until Facebook starts doing location check-ins, right?) and social question answering service Hunch<\/a>, built by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and engineering whiz Chris Dixon. <\/p>\n Who do you think would make a good talent acquisition for Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg wants to know.<\/p>\n Discuss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n