Lars Rasmussen Quits Google, Joins Facebook: "The decision to move on comes less than two months after the company said it would scrap Rasmussen's pet project, Google Wave, a visionary attempt to redefine the tools for online communication and collaboration.
'We were not quite the success that Google was hoping for, and trying to persuade them not to pull the plug and ultimately failing was obviously a little stressful,' the Danish-born computer science engineer said."