Chrome OS Boss Leaves for Facebook
Posted on 28. Jun, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News
Chrome OS Engineering Director Matthew Papakipos has announced today on his Twitter account that he is leaving for Facebook.
“Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it’s time for something new. I’m going to work @ Facebook! Love the product and team. Woot!”
At least it’s nice to hear that Chrome OS is in good shape. One of the most memorable things that Papakipos did other than take the reigns of Chrome OS during its infancy was submit to a wide-ranging and lengthy interview with Ars Technica regarding the conceptual vision of Chrome OS. It’s really worth a read if you have not yet checked it out.
Papakipos had previously worked on HTML5 projects for Google. It seems as if this would be a big loss with Chrome OS looming in the fourth quarter for a launch, but Google has a stable of engineers on the project if you have ever taken a gander over to the Chromium.org site. Here’s hoping a replacement is named pretty soon.
Nevertheless, there is clearly something going on between Google and Facebook. It’s rumored that Google is planning to launch its own Facebook-like application, while Facebook could foray into real time or social search. It will be fun to watch these two companies try some things that their rival specializes in, and we’ll see how this battle shakes out.
3 Responses to “Chrome OS Boss Leaves for Facebook”
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Name jean d'eau
29. Jun, 2010
i don’t know why, but this news makes me kind of upset. here i’ve been desperately awaiting chromeOS for the last year and now Papa Kipos abandons ship. dunno, doesn’t seem to bode well.
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