If a software company wanted to make a killing in the academic market, a one-button "Convert to [MLA/APA/Chicago] Style" feature in a word processor would totally make me switch.
Especially if it got the citation formatting right.
If your code is clean and you named your source files logically, you can update the website 4 years later as easily as you could have when you were first developing it.
So, hands down, the weirdest thing about being at the Nebula Awards Weekend is that I keep meeting, for the first time, people I've known for years
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If I were a developer, I'd write a free digital dice app that can roll for any of the major gaming systems. And then I'd release a $49.99 version that lets you cheat on one die roll every hour.
After the early rapid expansion, inflation continues until there is either a cosmic rip or the trend reverses in a cosmic crunch. Facebook seems to be trying for the former while LJ does the latter.