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2008 application zeitgeist

13.08.2008

We thought it might be interesting to take the several hundred applications we received and look for some aggregate patterns, so I grabbed the answers to some of the more relevant questions and (after a little sed manipulation to strip HTML and make sure no confidential application info slipped through) fed them to Jonathan Feinberg’s excellent Wordle. The results are below. It’s a little dirty (e.g. I wish “open” and “source” were one phrase) but even without too much manual polish it should be a good indicator. Enjoy – and be sure to click through for the full size images.

Q3: What are you creating?

Q10: How will you make money?

Q16: What tools will you use?

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