Comments on: The Facebook App Economy: Revival Time?

By: Rav Casley Gera

Rav Casley Gera — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:42:44 +0000

The same question applies to the Open Stream API. Apart from a few Twitter clients tacking on quite basic News Feed support, we've seen little in terms of provision for users to consume Facebook content without using Facebook.com. Why aren't there a slew of Facebook iPad apps, given that there isn't an official app yet?

I can think off the top of my head of several features a third-party Facebook app could have; more detailed feed filtering, rich photo browsing, a rich calendar, etc. Ditto for messaging, though I don't know if developers have access to the inbox in that way yet.

By: Nolan Love

Nolan Love — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:31:52 +0000

Speaking of leveraging unique data feeds from Facebook so as to bring entirely new value into the world... here's a simple but compelling app that we've built to visualize all of your friends in one place: your own portrait.

http://www.mesaic.com

Enjoy!

By: rick

rick — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:14:45 +0000

Seems like Facebook loses interest and move on to other things. Groups become Pages, Fans become likes... etc.

Facebook basically killed off app development when they redesigned the profile and placed an emphasis on the news feed.

But even some of the stuff they introed at F8 is already dead.... example: their disqus-like comment system doesn't work right and isn't documented well.

They make Google Labs look brilliant.

By: Ankur Banerjee

Ankur Banerjee — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:18:38 +0000

Maybe it’s just that the Twitter crowd (at least initially) was far more tech-savvy than Facebook’s – and thus willing to adopt services built around their new plaything.

By: lilywhite

lilywhite — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:28:34 +0000

Hey John, I defy you to explain to your readers why SLIDE is an important company? You wrote it, just curious, because I don’t think many (if any) of your readers agree that Slide is important on any level. It seems to me that Slide changes their business model every 18 months, without any real foundation. If they went away tomorrow no one would notice, except you I guess?

By: Brittle

Brittle — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:31:34 +0000

Online retailers have been succesfully adapting applications that help them sell on Facebook. I setup a shop on facebook using Sortprice.com's store application and went from 200 active users per month to over 10,000 at one point. Adoption has been quite popular as some of the largest retailers are implementing this. SortPrice claims they have over 1000 stores built.
http://www.sortprice.com/facebook_store

I think it's still in the infancy stage so only time will tell.

By: app developer

app developer — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:48:32 +0000

I always feel slightly like the boy in the emperor’s new clothes when it comes to FB… I’m on it and I visit it once a week or so but the idea of me showing interest in or buying something whilst I’m there is zero.
It’s interruption marketing at the worst time – like someone trying to interest you in double glazing whilst you’re relaxing over a beer with a friend in a bar.
As for the people who spam me with updates of their farm/villa/hotel/pet shop/mental institution progress – nobody needs vacuous info.
I started off writing as the boy… now I sound like Scrooge – but I just don’t get it!

By: Chih-Chao

Chih-Chao — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:59:15 +0000

Check out http://gamersunite.coolchaser.com

We provide facebook streams specially customized for gamers, amongst lots of other tools for gamers.

By: Trent Hamm

Trent Hamm — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:22 +0000

The value of Open Graph is not very clear yet beyond simply being a bridge out of Facebook's walled garden for data-rich external sites like IMDB. In other words, I think Open Graph is great for increasing the synergy between Facebook and already-existing sets of content or for simple self-promotion. Beyond that... if there are great ideas out there, they're just not available yet.

Not every cool idea results in an immediate sea change. Many, many great ideas that seem like they'll change the world pass by quietly (like Google Wave) or take many years to really catch root (like, say, Bluetooth).