Funny Websites Hit it Big!

Let me just start by going over Iteration 2 for our group project. It seems that we came across a few issues. Two of the sites that we wanted to use are such small sites that they didn't have APIs. We basically have to start from square one. We wanted to keep the same objective so we choose to display yelp and google maps for today. But after showing the class what we did have, it gave us some ideas. We basically want to build a site for vacationers going to Traverse City. The site will display where the rental places are, what there is to do, maybe weather, and pictures of the area. We would like to use Flikr but John asked us to try a google photo display also. We'll investigate these and I feel like we are on the right track now.

Back to the topic at hand, have you ever heard of Texts from last night, or FML.com. These are both websites that display mini blogs. Texts from last night just show either drunken texts or funny texts that people text to their friends. FML.com gives a look into embarrassing moments that happen to people throughout the day. Texts from last night was developed by a former Wayne State University law student who decided to take the technical road in life and has hit the jackpot. The site is said to get 4.5 million hits a day.

These sites started as small sites and spiraled into conversation starters. These sites now have iPhone apps and have even been offered a book deal. This is an example of people following their dreams, you have a law school student who risked it all to develop a website. I think she's done pretty well for herself.