Yesterday I read in the Wall Street Journal weekend addition that Google may be purchasing Yelp. A web application that contains over 8 million reviews by people like myself. It also contains a community of people who want their voice to be heard and a large volunteer base that has promoted the site. That’s a lot of crowd sourcing to build quite the asset. $500 million’s worth to Google and possibly $750+ million to other potential buyers. Now that others have outbid Google.
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The creation of a web based application is often a sizable investment for any business. Its success or failure can have a major impact. In todays world, the website might be the business. How do the most successful websites and applications succeed? Why do others fail and disappear? How do we as web developers make sure our clients sites and applications are among those that are successful?
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