Apture acquired by Google

"Never heard of it" ... "Apture Highlights" ... "oh".<p>I hate those things, I often highlight as I scroll to keep my focus on where I'm reading and every time I accidentally trigger these.

Congrats to the Apture team. But to be honest, I never found sites having Apture useful. It kind of distracted me in many ways.<p>I hate anything that puts underlines / icons into the texts I'm reading. Not to mention, it is borderline spamvertisement and even virus-like.

I have very different reactions to talent, product, user and technology acquisitions.<p>I wish someone would track which kind of acquisition is made and let me track it by acquiring company. From my limited vantage point, Google seems to make mostly talent acquisitions and that generally makes me sad.<p>Anyone know which this was?

Apture helped enhance web sites with supporting media functionality. For smaller sites that did not have time or talent to get widgets and such installed, Apture offered a simple way to do media feature upgrades with a very small investment of time. I will miss those features.

How interesting. I worked on something very similar back in 2005 (but never launched): RocketMenu<p><a href="http://www.yarone.com/2011/02/rocketmenu-unobtrusive-search-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.yarone.com/2011/02/rocketmenu-unobtrusive-search-...</a>

What's a typical acquisition compensation package for a non-founding engineer being acquired by Facebook, Google, eBay,etc? Anyone know?

They removed Apture from the Chrome Store just now

I have never heard of Apture up until now, but I love the idea. Congrats to both Tristan and Can, keep up the great work.

I love contextual search on tablets, and really hate it on the browser.

Google takes one step closer to becoming skynet and GLaDOS.<p>Apture Science, we do what we can because we must.

Love it. Can't wait to see how they will incooperate it into Chrome

Someone else also read APERTURE?