16. Cheap Software
Hours to Build a Useful Web App
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17. Cheap Software Opportunity
Data becoming more important than code
Google, Amazon, Craigslist, Twitter
Civic Data is plentiful and largely untapped
2 people in a room can do something useful
Like barn raising of old, we now have people getting together for a weekend and building apps.
Software speaks louder than words
StarTribune – The Ballot Challenge – crowdsourcing the recount
Cheap software + government data + communityPick your issueDon’t put a good crisis to waste
Empowering me to shop in my underwearCompeting with the Somalian’s at the Pirate of the Year awardsAnd watching the change in my social graph, rather than making change happen
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