NewsGrange » Hacker Shows It Doesn’t Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki – Just 321 Lines of HTML Will do the Trick

In the source code, the developer clearly references that the reason for this project was to show how easy it is to implement the basic functionality of Qwiki: “This code is not pretty, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s only been 6 hours, but based on funding patterns I should be able to raise a few million off of this .” The first demo of Fqwiki you see after opening the site is its rendition of the Wikipedia entry for “snake oil.”

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