http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/google-buys-slide-for-182-million-getting-more-serious-about-social-games

<<We’ve just learned that Google has agreed to buy Slide for $182 million, in a deal to be announced Friday. And sources also tell us that this is not the last move Google is going to be making to cobble together a serious social gaming and apps strategy to counter Facebook.>>

Still no word from Slide yet neither from the founder.

in other news: they also bought Instantiations.http://www.instantiations.com/

JAShack <(...) <in a deal to be announced Friday>>