[jcbozonier]

It's funny how I don't hear anyone saying, wow how cool, they listened and tried their best to respect 37signals. All this was was a few engineers trying to make something cool really quick just to show what you can do with AppEngine. Google, probably thought it was cool too and decided to showcase it.

This was really blown out of proportion. If anyone wants to perpetuate conspiracy theories you've got plenty of ammo with AppEngine. This HubbleChat thing is/was nothing. Cope.

[axod]

IMHO Google lost a lot of credibility by taking it down. For me, it's like Janet Jackson apologizing on national TV for showing some boob.

In any event Google has proved the point - it is ridiculously simple to clone webapps like campfire.

[raganwald]

wow how cool, they listened