If you’re a proud member of Hotpot, we salute you. You got in the game early and played it for what it was worth. Hotpot’s run with Google was distinguished and profitable for lots of listed businesses, and the story just get’s better.

As a part of Google Places, today’s Hotpot may lose it’s less than ideal name, but it gains a lot in notoriety and in all the benefits of Google’s increasingly social environment.

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Hotpot Loses Identity, Gets Merged Into Places – SmallBiz Trends