Friday, August 06, 2010

Google buys social app company Slide

In a piosy on the Official Google Blog David Glazer announced the acquisition of Slide



"We’re excited to announce we’ve acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous platforms online. For Google, the web is about people, and we’re working to develop open, transparent and interesting (and fun!) ways to allow our users to take full advantage of how technology can bring them closer to friends and family and provide useful information just for them. Slide has already created compelling social experiences for tens of millions of people across many platforms, and we’ve already built strong social elements into products like Gmail, Docs, Blogger, Picasa and YouTube. As the Slide team joins Google, we’ll be investing even more to make Google services socially aware and expand these capabilities for our users across the web. While we don’t have any detailed product plans to share right now, we’re thrilled to welcome Max and his very talented team to Google, and we can’t wait to work together"



I have used Slide earlier to make pretty pictures but not recently. Judging by other reports Google wants the brains more than the apps from Slide.What dp you think?



The Google post is here. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-and-slide-building-more-social.html


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