ALL right, class, here’s your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat.
That was the task for some Stanford students in the fall of 2007, in what became known here as the “Facebook Class.”
No one expected what happened next.
The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. And, as advertising rolled in, some of those students started making far more money than their professors.
To read the full, original article click on this link: The ‘Facebook Class’ Built Apps, and Fortunes - NYTimes.com
Author: MIGUEL HELFT
