Comments on: GoodBye HuddleChat, We Hardly Knew Ya http://www.geardiary.com/2008/04/09/goodbye-huddlechat-we-hardly-knew-ya/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Judie Lipsetthttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/04/09/goodbye-huddlechat-we-hardly-knew-ya/#comment-30806 Judie Lipsett Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:46:42 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/04/09/goodbye-huddlechat-we-hardly-knew-ya/#comment-30806 Yep. I hear there is this product called CampFire... heh heh heh Yep. I hear there is this product called CampFire… heh heh heh

]]> By: Wayne Schulzhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/04/09/goodbye-huddlechat-we-hardly-knew-ya/#comment-30789 Wayne Schulz Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:43:34 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/04/09/goodbye-huddlechat-we-hardly-knew-ya/#comment-30789 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.... 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….

]]> By: Judie Lipsetthttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/04/09/goodbye-huddlechat-we-hardly-knew-ya/#comment-57197 Judie Lipsett Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:13:08 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/04/09/goodbye-huddlechat-we-hardly-knew-ya/#comment-57197 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">huddlechat yanked right quick; too bad. it worked very well. http://tinyurl.com/6jlpts</span></span> huddlechat yanked right quick; too bad. it worked very well. http://tinyurl.com/6jlpts

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