[davcro]

This does not make sense.

I am the developer of two Facebook apps, Friend Interview and Quiz Monster. I would argue those two apps are more valuable than Slide's and there is no way they are worth $182 million.

What is Google buying?

[BenS]

Google is buying distribution across many social networks in lots of countries, and a team 100+ smart engineers and product designers.

[muhfuhkuh]

That Slide has 100 any human beings working on essentially a slideshow flash widget, a couple embedded video players, and a patronizing knock-off social game is incredulous. If they can fetch that number, then whateverlife should've been worth a billion.

This may be where we see Hunter Thompson's high water mark for the Social Web, where the tides broke and rolled back.

[davcro]

Quiz Monster and Friend Interview have a bigger userbase both international and in the US than Slide's apps. Granted I'm only looking at FB here, but IMO that is the only social network that matters. I work solo and believe that my apps could be run with just one educated rails developer. Isnt that a better buy than a smaller app that needs 100 eningeers?

And I'm not some special case here. There are a handful of Indy fb devs with bigger apps than mine.

This deal makes zero sense to me.

[ahi]

Buy some foosball tables and hire some engineers. You'll be rolling in it in no time.

[pclark]

Epic talent?