TechCrunch has been able to confirm that social network hi5 has cut 28 employees as it plans to move to its “next generation” social gaming platform. The employees in question were working on site operation and hi5 CEO Alex St. John has confirmed their departure.
“In support of our market strategy to launch next generation social gaming platform by early next year, our operations team migrated the site infrastructure to the Windows Server OS,” stated St. John.
“We have also been building the next generation site in a new architecture, .NET framework, and have moved away from Open Source and Java technology. As we have recently turned the corner on our technology migration efforts we have been able to significantly reduce the number of positions required to support the older hi5 site and are in the process of re-organizing the company to focus entirely on the development and deployment of our next generation social play site.”
“We are still in the process of planning the next generation site launch and expect to release more information to the press as we finalize the details of the launch date and launch feature set,” St. John continued.
