Fridge is Joining Google+ Team • Hacker News Board

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by badclient » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 4:19 PM UTC

nadam wrote: post #16

Funny how the startup scene changes. Years ago, Paul Graham wrote essays like 'You weren't meant to have a boss'. Nowadays talent aquisitions are seen as huge successes while (money aside) we are celebrating that some former founders found jobs at big companies. (I am also more pragmatic in this question than years ago, so I am not criticizing anyone.)

Nowdays talent acquisitions are seen as huge successes

Citation needed.

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by SimpleConcepts » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

Congrats guys. Google+ saw a trend within small groups and decided to enter that market. However, I would assume small groups aim to limit your time spent with those who aren't as close to you. Now, I have tons of circles, and connecting with even more people than ever. Its organized well, but whats the point? Facebook has Lists right? Buying out Fridge and growing a community from the ground is a much better/sustainable strategy for google. Just an opinion :)

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by timxpp » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 4:27 PM UTC

nadam wrote: post #16

Funny how the startup scene changes. Years ago, Paul Graham wrote essays like 'You weren't meant to have a boss'. Nowadays talent aquisitions are seen as huge successes while (money aside) we are celebrating that some former founders found jobs at big companies. (I am also more pragmatic in this question than years ago, so I am not criticizing anyone.)

True. If they would go and work for IBM, would it still sound so good? How come getting a job at Google is seen as a small Nobel price?

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by ma2rten » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 4:27 PM UTC

Quite ironic, I just watched their promo video.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/TRYntzWLJ7Q

It literally says: "You don't have to worry about other people seeing what you posted, not that random person from school, not Google"

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by cemregr » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

riordan wrote: post #4

Fridge built a really amazing product - Social groupware for people outside of Facebook. I'll be sad to see it go. I wonder if the team is going to be moved out to Mountain View or stay in NYC?

I like Austin, but a group I was part of used Fridge and it made my pull my hair.

Thanks to Fridge, I now know how my grandmother feels like using a computer. The UI was really overwhelming and I could never find what I was after or why things were sorted a certain way.

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by cemregr » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 4:36 PM UTC

Another article mentioned frid.ge had 40.000 uniques and 20.000 groups. Does that say something?

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by rdl » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 4:45 PM UTC

nadam wrote: post #16

Funny how the startup scene changes. Years ago, Paul Graham wrote essays like 'You weren't meant to have a boss'. Nowadays talent aquisitions are seen as huge successes while (money aside) we are celebrating that some former founders found jobs at big companies. (I am also more pragmatic in this question than years ago, so I am not criticizing anyone.)

I'd draw a distinction between talent acquisitions to go join the general pool of people at a big company, and talent acquisitions to work on the big new focus of a "sleeping giant", in something similar to what you were doing before.

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by pg » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 5:13 PM UTC

nadam wrote: post #16

Funny how the startup scene changes. Years ago, Paul Graham wrote essays like 'You weren't meant to have a boss'. Nowadays talent aquisitions are seen as huge successes while (money aside) we are celebrating that some former founders found jobs at big companies. (I am also more pragmatic in this question than years ago, so I am not criticizing anyone.)

(money aside)

That's the mistake in your reasoning. The money makes a talent acquisition significantly different from getting a job.

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by gpp » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 5:25 PM UTC

Any idea how much Google or other companies pay for acquisition like this?

Re: Fridge is Joining Google+ Team

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Post by 18pfsmt » Thu, Jul 21, 2011, 5:25 PM UTC

ma2rten wrote: post #24

Quite ironic, I just watched their promo video. http://www.youtube.com/embed/TRYntzWLJ7Q It literally says: "You don't have to worry about other people seeing what you posted, not that random person from school, not Google"

Maybe this acquisition will bring the interests of someone like myself, that are non-public personas and wish to keep it that way, to the table where we can participate publicly. We would be able to use a single handle in our Circles marked 'public', so we could be blocked but still not be stalked.