socialmedian: Why Googlers Are Leaving to Start Social Sites (And Invites to One of Them)

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Why Googlers Are Leaving to Start Social Sites (And Invites to One of Them)

Source: Mashable!

Mar 05, 2009

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When Bindu Reddy, one half of the two member team behind the just launched Likaholix (a recommendation engine and social platform for likes) reached out to us about her new initiative, we were intrigued by the fact that her and her partner are two ex-Googlers who seem to be heading down the same path as many other ex-Googlers: launching social software of some kind.

Comments (7)

Toluju,

Mar 05, 2009

Interesting mainly for the comments on Google's software stack, their inability to iterate quickly, and the role open source software plays in this.

Hutch,

Mar 05, 2009

"Part of the reason Google Video failed miserably against You Tube was that the team couldn

Sumanth,

Mar 05, 2009

Very nice and useful application. It definitely is different from any other app.

Reddyjeevan,

Mar 05, 2009

Social sites helps us to identify your friends easily across the world at one point.

Tweric,

Mar 06, 2009

I'm kind of curious about a bigger sample of ex-googlers. Google is in the business of search and connect so it makes sense for the employees to be interested in social software.

I'd like to see the percentages of where the others went. Does anyone have a pie chart?

Esd714,

Mar 06, 2009

Kind of an interesting concept for a site-yeah I signed up and will mess around wiht it for a bit...see if there is any kind of community. The real probalem all of these sites face is building scale.