Talk:Idealab/Archives/2012

Noteworthy companies
The section on "noteworthy" companies is really a big nasty list that isn't very useful. I think it's a good idea to apply normal WP:NOTE standards, IE if the company in the list has it's own article, keep it, otherwise don't include it. Comments from others? AliveFreeHappy (talk) 21:54, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Notability
I wonder if this company is notable at all. Just having worked with "noteworthy" companies doesn't make a business notable itself. Also, having been acquired by Lotus doesn't make a company notable. Software and tech companies acquire hundreds of small, non-notable companies per year. I don't know much about this firm, but my hunch is that it isn't notable and that this article was created by someone who works there. Someone (perhaps the same someone) also created an article on the company's founder Bill Gross -- which is another article of questionable notability. (By the way, that's not the very well known Bill Gross of PIMCO.) In my book, all of this adds up to suspicion of non-notabiltiy across the board. Further research is needed, but perhaps also a nomination for deletion. ask123 (talk) 13:06, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Idealab was a notable player in the dot-com bubble. I am going to remove the notability question Daviddavid (talk) 17:56, 12 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, was it? Like being credited for developments they didn't make? Just because it's been stated wrongly elsewhere?

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, ... originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004.[2] (Emphasis added.)
 * Source: Picasa Article, introduction (as of date).
 * Not true. That Picasa software (which was never named for a company) was created by a company by the name of Lifescape that may or may not have resided in this incubator. Inscrutably, there is no article for Lifescape, Inc. (while many "Lifescape"s are found by full text search).

--217.85.112.171 (talk) 00:05, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

False entry on Picasa
see recent comment in the Notability section. The article on Picasa has it wrong, too, as of date.