GoodBye HuddleChat, We Hardly Knew Ya
Posted on 09 April 2008, at 12:04 am, by Judie Lipsett
Earlier tonight Wayne and I tested out a new chat system that we hoped to use for a team meeting this weekend. The program, HuddleChat, worked perfectly and we ended our talk confident that it would do exactly what we needed.
Tonight, when I went back in to take a look and see about sending invites to the team, I discovered the following message:
Well alrighty then. Back to the drawing board… :eyeroll:
Update: found a little more info on the subject.
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April 9th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Wow - this is a big deal in my opinion. Not that Google took down a group chat program (I’m underwhelmed that a one page group chat could rip anyone off any more than Ford could rip Toyota for making a “car”).
The huge issue is that Google is trying to attract developers to their platform.
Who wants to spend hundreds of hours only to ultimately have Google take down their application?
I waded through the comments over at Techcrunch and most people largely didn’t get the bigger issue. Everyone saw it as a strict problem of one developer copying another.
WRONG.
The problem here is that GOOGLE pulled the plug.
Judge. Jury. Executioner.
Expect to read more opinions on this as people start to get the bigger picture at work.
Now to find another group chat to hold our team meeting in….
April 9th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Yep. I hear there is this product called CampFire… heh heh heh