Slide.com, buy now for only a gabillion dollars
Max Levchin, founder of PayPal and now a proud founder of WIDGET company Slide, recently pointed out what the success metric for Slide was. Being sold for more than PayPal (which brought in about $1,5 billion at the time of it’s IPO), he says “Otherwise, what have I learned?”.
Prior to OpenSocial many would have been sceptical but now…well, at least Max feels like someone handed him one hell of an early chirstmas gift, this is what he concluded in an email about OpenSocial:
The launch of OpenSocial points at the enormous financial opportunity for application developers, with social platforms poised to compete for developer attention through revenue opportunities for application builders. There are now real opportunities to build the next Adobe, Intuit, EA of social computing.
Slide was built to scale and capitalize on this very opportunity. While the social networking users and the networks themselves stand to gain tremendously from all the benefits of standards-based application development, the real winners today are the social application developers.
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