Filed under: Social Software, Web
eBay sells StumbleUpon back to... StumbleUpon
A few years ago eBay went on a buying spree and started snatching up companies ranging from Skype to StumbleUpon. While it made plenty of sense for eBay to acquire PayPal, a company that many eBay users were already using to facilitate financial transactions, Skype and StumbleUpon seemed like odd fits. Sure, you could try to figure out a way to use a social web site discovery tool to promote auctions, and you could use Skype's communication tools to encourage communication between buyers and sellers. But both Skype and StumbleUpon seemed like square pegs in eBay's round hole.
Now hot on the heels of news that Skype's founders are exploring the possibility of buying their company back from eBay comes news that StumbleUpon's founders did buy their company back.
StumbleUpon is now back in th ehands of founders Garret Camp and Geoff Smith and a new group of investors. The official reason for the buyback? Camp says "there were few long-term synergies between the two businesses." We could have told them that two years ago. Oh wait, we did.
[via TechCrunch]
The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
