Report: Google buys casual dev Slide

@Sinkwater

Wait, hold on, don't make Snorlax think now....

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller Damnit Snorlax, figure out that Avatar situation!

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

I'm sorry, but Joystiq really doesn't like Windows 7 ultimate. I've been trying to upload one, and have tried JPG, BMP, and PNG and none of them have worked.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

What known format works?

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller

Imgs seem to be .jpg

@Faenix

What do I save them as in Paint?

@SnorlaxTheSerialKiller

wait, try .gif

@Faenix

No luck. It said "Avatars may take up to 5 minutes to update on blogs" but it's been 20 minutes and nothing happened.

@lokid20 Everything is worth what it's purchaser will pay for it.

< / leonard nemoy voice>

@lokid20 I thought that as well, but read the source apparently slide was worth 500 million in 2008..

Google also overpaid for youtube at the time, but now considering they can force all os manufacturers to use a codec they have been creating for html 5 video (an open source one) it kind of makes sense, you can see they were looking at streaming media wholesale and youtube was the most successful site of its kind at the time and still is hence why it makes sense now..

I guess this has some similar logic, but I still have to agree with you its a lot of money for what is very simplistic widgets and "games"..

To put another thing out there, android has been picking up a lot of traction as of late, its the perfect delivery agent for googles attempt at another facebook (orkut was a relative failure everything considered)

This and zynga on their own social platform which is championed and rolled out onto all android handsets could make an instantly massive new social site, with games already available inside, could be what they are looking at..

@lokid20 also its apparently $228 million (46 million extra for employment retention bonuses)