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This does not make sense.

I am the developer of two Facebook apps, Friend Interview and Quiz Monster. I would argue those two apps are more valuable than Slide's and there is no way they are worth $182 million.

What is Google buying?

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Google is buying distribution across many social networks in lots of countries, and a team 100+ smart engineers and product designers.

That Slide has 100 any human beings working on essentially a slideshow flash widget, a couple embedded video players, and a patronizing knock-off social game is incredulous. If they can fetch that number, then whateverlife should've been worth a billion.

This may be where we see Hunter Thompson's high water mark for the Social Web, where the tides broke and rolled back.

Quiz Monster and Friend Interview have a bigger userbase both international and in the US than Slide's apps. Granted I'm only looking at FB here, but IMO that is the only social network that matters. I work solo and believe that my apps could be run with just one educated rails developer. Isnt that a better buy than a smaller app that needs 100 eningeers?

And I'm not some special case here. There are a handful of Indy fb devs with bigger apps than mine.

This deal makes zero sense to me.

Buy some foosball tables and hire some engineers. You'll be rolling in it in no time.

Epic talent?

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