I think we can all safely say, it was only a matter of time. Max Levchin, founder ofSlide, a company which Google acquired just over a year ago, will be leaving the company. According to a report onAll Things Dsources, Levchin will depart Google and Slide immediately and Slide’s projects will be “sunsetted over the next few months.” One such project includesPhotovinewhich launched topositive reviewsonly last week. Slide launched officially in 2005 as a way to make nifty social plugins and games for social networks like MySpace....

Maximizeris an OS X Lion app that brings full-screen to support to all Cocoa apps that haven’t been updated for the new operating system yet. The app, which was developed by well-known jailbroken iPhone app developerchpwn, won’t work with Carbon apps, but popular apps like Chrome, Firefox and TextMate will work fine with Maximizer. There’s a warning that apps that do have proper full-screen support may not work with Maximizer installed, so use with care, but so far reports are positive....

While the looming “Judgment Day” has dominated the news, the Internet has been experiencing its own month-long Rapture. We’ve seen promising new sites likeScovilleand Empire Avenuecrop up this month, but we’re also going to have to bid adieu to a few defining Internet giants. By the end of May, we’ll have lost three staples of the online community: the Facebook Group, AIM, and Friendster. Talk about the Internet imitating life. What does the end of the month hold for these once-popular Internet relics?...

TNW Quick Hit: Today Microsoft detailed the upcoming Patch Tuesday for May 2011. Only two bulletins are set to be released. Of the two patches, one is labeled “critical” for Windows, while the other is “critical” for Office. In the two bulletins, only three vulnerabilities are to be addressed. The date of the patch release is the second Tuesday of the month in accordance with tradition, May 10th. Both bulletins may require users to reboot their computers after installation:...

MBC Ventures, an incubator fund set up by media companyMBC Group, is Cairo-bound next week to meet with young Egyptian entrepreneurs looking for mentorships and investments. This is not the first time the Dubai-based fund has traveled around the Middle East in search of the best products and businesses. Last year, it visited Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan while this year, they have Egypt on their horizons. Projects that MBC is interested in hearing about include initiatives on the Web; new and innovative content for digital platforms; gaming; mobile apps, and animation, all of which address the Middle East and North African markets....