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Someone should have told Slide, "the creators of SuperPoke!" Besides that tagline about making a useless Facebook add-on feature that already existed, their recruiters never did explain what they did beyond like 3 Facebook API calls.
> 4 Aug 2010 — Google pays $182 million for SuperPoke Pets! creator Slide Glad I didn't depended on someone else's API, made 3 calls and got paid $182 mil in 2010 $$'s
I saw that too and I highly doubt Google bought the company for their SuperPoke routine but rather for their suite of products like the Pets and the data that comes along with it. Those 3 API calls may have put them on the map but that's probably not what made them valuable.