Welcoming Snapvine
As Alex discusses in our corporate blog, today WhitePages.com is announcing the acquisition of Snapvine. Snapvine’s a leader in building online voice applications for social connection, and we’re very excited to bring the companies together to help improve the Find & Connect experience around a fundamental human need.
Like most acquisitions of this type, this is primarily about accelerating our product development by bringing on a talented, dedicated staff which shares our mission, and the technology platform and applications they’ve built.
We share a number of common traits with the Snapvine technology team:
- A commitment to an open-source technical stack
- Experience scaling to millions of users, whether it’s responding to search engine queries over a sparse matrix or serving media files across thousands of MySpace pages
- Obsession with high-availability, low-cost operations (and, coincidentally, data centers whose distance from each other can be measured in feet)
- Hiring great people and giving them opportunities to impact the entire business
The Snapvine team also complements our team well:
- Snapvine brings expertise in communications, especially VoIP, with a leading-edge Asterisk-based software call control stack
- Both companies build their core technology in dynamic, TMTOWTDI languages - Perl for WhitePages, Ruby for Snapvine: the Perl Foundation says Ruby is hot and sexy - how could we avoid it?
We’re very excited to welcome our neighbors to the south - 0.9 miles south on foot, to be precise. We look forward to working together!
