Are you in it for the money or in it for the UX? James and Per reflect on Facebook’s $19bn purchase of Whatsapp, the history and future of messaging and personal correspondence as well as how the start-up ideology you adopt can affect your approach to UX.

(Listening time: 38 minutes)

Episode 68: @axbom & @beantin ask: Money or meaning? We look at the Whatsapp aquisition and start-up ideology http://t.co/iWtZ8qnRlv #ux

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• Wassup 2008
  
• Whatsapp
  
• Mark Zuckerberg announces the Whatsapp deal
  
• Famous tech acquisitions, cost per user
  
• The “missing” Bokado article: Whatsapp’s focus on UX
  
• Telegram
  
• 37Signals
  

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