Oh, man, what a bummer. They had this really cool platform (albeit one that needed a lot of work) for building lightweight collaborative apps that was totally unlike anything else out there... now they've just got another wiki/widget platform.
I see Joe and Graham have moved to greener pastures within the company (Joe is head of Product Management and they both worked on OpenSocial), but I wish they hadn't abandoned their vision of a wiki app plaform.
The net effect is to make businesses, small businesses in particular, more leery of doing business with startups. These guys succeeded and abandoned the promises they had made to their customers. Google did support it as is, but most early buyers don't want "as is" for the next 18 months.
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Oh, man, what a bummer. They had this really cool platform (albeit one that needed a lot of work) for building lightweight collaborative apps that was totally unlike anything else out there... now they've just got another wiki/widget platform.
I see Joe and Graham have moved to greener pastures within the company (Joe is head of Product Management and they both worked on OpenSocial), but I wish they hadn't abandoned their vision of a wiki app plaform.
The net effect is to make businesses, small businesses in particular, more leery of doing business with startups. These guys succeeded and abandoned the promises they had made to their customers. Google did support it as is, but most early buyers don't want "as is" for the next 18 months.