Facebook Hires Duo Behind Daytum, a Personal Data Site

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Facebook has hired Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case, the two founders of Daytum, a Web site that offers tools to record personal data and create visualizations from it. They will become part of Facebook's product design team.

Felton has become somewhat of an Internet celebrity in recent years with his annual reports, which track the everyday events in his life. The carefully designed reports offer visual representations of things like the number of beverages he consumed in the previous year and the distance he traveled. Daytum was started last year with the goal of offering an “elegant and intuitive tool for counting and communicating personal statistics.” People who use the site tend to track things like exercise, food and sleep habits. The Daytum site will continue to operate.


Facebook Hires Duo Behind Daytum, a Personal Data Site