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Because we need more big tech news this week. Yes, it's true that Google just brought down the hammer on the slide, as Liz Gannes AllThingsD was first reported earlier this evening. Yes, it is true that Max Levchin leaves. Now we know the fate of all products slide. And it's not pretty.
They all went out of business, except for one, we have learned. This means the slideshow products to Google's acquisition of the company a year ago, and new to slide command builds within Google over the past year. Yes, it includes new products like Disco, pool party, incoming video and just started last week Photovine. They are all dead.
The lone exception Prizes.org (which we reviewed here), we have heard. The reason is that it was elaborated by a group of slides in China for Google, and they will keep is, apparently.
It was only in August last year, Google bought slide for about $ 200 million after employee bonuses. The idea is to get more serious about social gaming, and get a proven entrepreneur Levchin on board. But much has changed in the past year — on the one hand, Eric Schmidt is no longer a Director. For another Google now has Google +.
The slide has been running as a fully autonomous unit is broken down into smaller groups inside of Google. During the time that seemed like a good strategy that can keep Google prompt. Now it just looks kind of silly.
The slide was so autonomous that many work on products that compete with features that were part of the Google +. Many of the applications created iOS first, and does not work at all on Google Android platform.
For its part, Google has only the following statement:
Max decided to leave the slide, and use other features, and we wish him success. Most of the commands from the slide stays on Google to work on other opportunities.
This is also true that slide commands not to learn about this bloodshed before this afternoon. Can you help but feel bad for those commands-especially Photovine command, which is really just run their spots photo sharing app a week ago. Unlike other projects slide Google even gave them both PR resources to get the word out about app. eight days later, dead.
Larry page was clearly not messing around with his efforts to streamline Google as much as possible and trim any fat. While Google said that the majority of the members of the Group slide will remain on Google, I wouldn't be surprised to see the outcome pretty quickly.
Update: slide just put up the following blog post to let customers know about cancelled the product:
We wanted to give you all in advance in the coming months the resignation of a number of products and applications of the slide. This includes slide in products such as slideshows and SuperPoke! Pets, as well as more recent products such as Photovine, video of the Inbox and pool party. We have created products with a view to providing a fun way for people to connect, communicate and share. Although we are incredibly grateful to our users and for all the wonderful feedback over the years, many of these products is no longer as active or has not yet caught as we initially expected.
Most importantly we would like to take this opportunity to assure you that we are committed to help our users save their data as easily as soon as possible. We recognize that many of you are valuable content with us and want to assure you that, whenever possible, you'll have plenty of time to load this information or transfer it to another service.
For example, Slide.com, we will allow users to upload their photos, or export them in Picasa account. We are working to release this function exports in the coming weeks, and after adding, users will have several months to take advantage of the translation of their photos.
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