Useless aquisition?
When Google bought Hello perhaps they had some big plans with it, some of them being to use the IM platform. Unfortunately after the aquisition nothing big happened and very few users know of this software.
Now, with the new Yahoo messenger this is software is made obsolete, YIM incorporating it’s features through the photo sharing service.
Too bad that Google bought the software without promoting and developing it
2 Responses to “Useless aquisition?”
By Guillaume on May 22, 2005 | Reply
mmm tue right now it seems to be a mix of everything: Hello + Blogger + Picasa.
However with all the rumors going on Google imight actually suprise us…Could they jave hired Firefox dev to build their own browser integrating all the tools ?? After all I remember Netscape to have a built in AIM Messenger…
I would be surprised if they just leave the thing this way.
But hey in the same way we ant say there wsere big changes after Yahoo bought Oddpost for Yahoo Mail ???…Apart from the to-line auto-complete nothing was done ( as far as I heard).
Yahoo bought Musicmatch after Oddpost and the music Engine is already out …so was Oddpost useless as well ??