Despite having been launched to positive reviews, Photovine is among Slide’s products to be shut down as the independently operated division will be dissolved. Google purchased Slide last year for $200m but never fully integrated the company into itself. The unit allowed to operate on its own accord, sometimes releasing products that are competing with Google’s own internal products.
Slide is also known to favor iOS over Android with Disco and Photovine being two of its most well known apps making appearance on iPhone first. Since Larry Page replaced Eric Schmidt as CEO, he’s been consolidating and restructuring the company. It looks like Slide does not fit within his vision.
Slide founder Max Levchin will leave Google, as will Slide’s head of product, Jared Fliesler, who will join Square.
Photovine is a beautifully designed, very well done app, something that could have come out of Flickr had the Yahoo! people realized what opportunities it has with the photo sharing site. Photovine lets you post photos according to themes and discover other people’s photos who happen to share the same theme.
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