<story><title>Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki</title><url>http://newsgrange.com/hacker-shows-it-doesnt-take-8-million-to-clone-qwiki-just-321-lines-of-html-will-do-the-trick/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>banksy</author><text>Qwiki won Runner up for &quot;Best Technical Achievement&quot; at the Crunchies the other night. Fqwiki is a statement meant to illustrate how ridiculously naive we have become with respect to &quot;innovative technology&quot;.  Neither Fqwiki nor Qwiki belong even remotely in the same league as Google&apos;s Self Driving Cars (which won for Best Technical Achievement).&lt;p&gt;Building a great company is about more than a hacked-up prototype built in six hours and, with luck, Qwiki might achieve this status.  At the same time, however, Qwiki is being disingenuous in promoting a nonexistent technological breakthrough that falsely sets expectations for what &quot;technical innovation&quot; actually means.&lt;p&gt;Misinformed investors and entrepreneurs will only bring us closer to a bubble that may some day pop. Don&apos;t let the hype fool you.&lt;p&gt;Yours,&lt;p&gt;Banksy The Lucky Stiff</text></comment>
<story><title>Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki</title><url>http://newsgrange.com/hacker-shows-it-doesnt-take-8-million-to-clone-qwiki-just-321-lines-of-html-will-do-the-trick/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>melvinram</author><text>I just saw Qwiki for the first time today and watched the Natalie Portman qwiki at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qwiki.com/q/#Natalie_Portman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.qwiki.com/q/#Natalie_Portman&lt;/a&gt; and you can count me in as a fan.&lt;p&gt;The clone (viewable at &lt;a href=&quot;http://banksytheluckystiff.github.com/fqwiki/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://banksytheluckystiff.github.com/fqwiki/&lt;/a&gt;) definitely does not compare. It&apos;s like comparing the first version of Yahoo to today&apos;s Google... and Qwiki hasn&apos;t even started to improve their product yet.&lt;p&gt;Obviously the author doesn&apos;t care for the qwiki format but they are being short sighted. It could be quiet useful, especially as it improves over time in areas of giving you options in how much depth you want, the voice synthesizer, etc, by providing just enough info in a pleasurable format.&lt;p&gt;What I do hate about qwiki is their name. It associates them with wiki&apos;s/wikipedia in my mind (without knowing what it is) and it personally is a major turn-off.</text></comment>