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If you look at the HN thread about which companies are hiring, you'll see it's basically every single tech company under the sun right now.
This is quite puzzling to me. I played around with Bumptop a little bit when it came out but I have to say that I quickly removed it as I found it to add no value what so ever. If anything this seems more like a talent acquisition than a technology acquisition.
On the other hand, I thought that a side-effect of 20 years of acclimatizing to the industry-standard GUI might be difficulty switching to such a strange, physics-based 3D interface. It may be another issue of learning curve vs. post-learning benefit. I didn't give it enough time to really tell.
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How has that strategy worked out for them?
Are you suggesting it hasn't?
As far as talent goes, the Dodgeball founders left, Jaiku founders left, Panoramio, Blogger and Feedburner founders left. That's off the top of my head, there's probably a lot more.
Seems like an expensive and unreliable way to do bulk hires.
This is quite puzzling to me. I played around with Bumptop a little bit when it came out but I have to say that I quickly removed it as I found it to add no value what so ever. If anything this seems more like a talent acquisition than a technology acquisition.
Hrmmm. This strategy sounds dangerously familiar. Making Money? Who cares... Just buy shit that looks cool.
I think its been shown before that Google (and others) often buy for the talent as much as the product.
Can't figure out why they're not just giving away the BumpTop Pro option. The crippled BumpTop free version is almost pointless with its limit of two sticky notes.
Then to find out something I paid (even just last week) for was then given free to everyone else..
That is one hell of a great way to get a huge boost in downloads :)
EDIT: link to download page http://eol.bumptop.com/download.php
Can't figure out why they're not just giving away the BumpTop Pro option. The crippled BumpTop free version is almost pointless with its limit of two sticky notes.
Well, the product has been out just over/under a year, If I'd paid for a digital product and less than a year later I'm told that I've got just a week to download it forever and there will be no further updates, I'd be pretty pissed. Then to find out something I paid (even just last week) for was then given free to everyone else..