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Author:  pcernie [ Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Google confirms purchase of social traffic provider Waze
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... ze-1158259
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Google confirms purchase of social traffic provider Waze
if you want a giggle look at Appleinsider forumites response to this.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Google confirms purchase of social traffic provider Waze
I can't imagine they'd be pleased.

Personally, I don't really care who specifically buys them but I'm always somewhat.. well it doesn't seem right that a company uses crowdsourcing to build itself up then sells (it's usually to Google simply 'cos they have all the money) for umpti-million dollars. It always feels like they've cheated the people who actually did all the work.

This is partly why I tend not to 'help' crowd sourcing projects so much these days. A lot of them seem less of a project and more a scam to develop a big dataset for free then sell it for a king's ransom.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:21 am ]
Post subject:  Google confirms purchase of social traffic provider Waze
jonbwfc wrote:
I can't imagine they'd be pleased.

Personally, I don't really care who specifically buys them but I'm always somewhat.. well it doesn't seem right that a company uses crowdsourcing to build itself up then sells (it's usually to Google simply 'cos they have all the money) for umpti-million dollars. It always feels like they've cheated the people who actually did all the work.

This is partly why I tend not to 'help' crowd sourcing projects so much these days. A lot of them seem less of a project and more a scam to develop a big dataset for free then sell it for a king's ransom.

But will these people stay with Waze? There could always be a new upstart that will steal many of these users. I still support the idea of crowd sourcing because you can still walk away if you do not like it.


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