Comments on: Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping. Competition Can Suck.

By: Anton’s Hat » Blog Archive » Facebook Fail: The end of Facebook…

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:37:50 +0000

[...] to capture all the value while marginalising it’s users and partners. It has a record of competing with developers on it’s platform and abusing user data for it’s own gain. And at a time when I expected [...]

By: The Meaning Of Friendship

The Meaning Of Friendship — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:40:23 +0000

[...] taking two approaches to dealing with this. MySpace and Facebook (and those like them) have added different buckets to throw friends into. You can share more or less information with different groups of friends. So [...]

By: Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone | Zensible

Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone | Zensible — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:08:04 +0000

[...] Facebook doesn’t block new apps from launching, but they’ve shown that they’ll compete with third party developers, give preferential treatment to revenue partners and won’t hesitate to suspend applications [...]

By: Interview With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Products, Funding, Competition

Interview With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Products, Funding, Competition — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:14:44 +0000

[...] I asked Mark about the company’s policy on competition with application developers, an issue that has come up repeatedly over the last year. [...]

By: Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry « RedLegg

Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry « RedLegg — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:09:15 +0000

[...] sucks to be one of the very many birthday reminder Facebook apps today. Such is life. With a flick of the keyboard Facebook can make your app redundant and [...]

By: Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry | BabyWise

Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry | BabyWise — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:28:04 +0000

[...] a joke, but it definitely sucks to be one of the very many birthday reminder Facebook apps today. Such is life. With a flick of the keyboard Facebook can make your app redundant and pointless. Meanwhile, I [...]

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By: Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry | Coolcolors

Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry | Coolcolors — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:40:33 +0000

By: Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone » The Scripts Zone

Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone » The Scripts Zone — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:23:05 +0000

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Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone | about ICT — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:35:45 +0000

By: Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone | aboutCREATION

Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone | aboutCREATION — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:16:31 +0000

By: Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone

Of Course You’ll Keep Developing For The iPhone — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:31:44 +0000

By: The Value of a Facebook App | The NWEN Blog

The Value of a Facebook App | The NWEN Blog — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:31:57 +0000

[...] Facebook is free to compete with your app, shut you down, etc. They are already doing so. [...]

By: Facebook Platform, One Year Later

Facebook Platform, One Year Later — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:09:23 +0000

[...] amount of time, leading to slow responses and errors. Developers also had to deal with a constant competitive threat from the network itself – at any time Facebook could implement a new feature that could wipe them [...]

By: Web Services » Who’s your friend?

Web Services » Who’s your friend? — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:40:05 +0000

[...] TechCrunch. This entry was posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 10:46 am and is filed under We’re [...]

By: Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping at iClick Solutions

Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping at iClick Solutions — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:49:07 +0000

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By: New Privacy Controls for Facebook on Wednesday « Amybeth Hale - Research Goddess

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:10:11 +0000

[...] new privacy controls, which will launch on Wednesday morning, allow users to do more with Friend Lists. Users can now set specific privacy controls for different friend groups…[they] can create a [...]

By: Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming

Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:50:56 +0000

By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Facebook - Trying to be friends with 400 facebook “friends”

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:59:11 +0000

[...] are handled by different social networks. As I was writing this post, TechCrunch announced that Facebook is going to redo the way “friends” are ranked. [...]

By: Mark Zuckerberg: He put your face on a book | wannabeMogul.com

Mark Zuckerberg: He put your face on a book | wannabeMogul.com — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:07:58 +0000

[...] point towards Facebook integrating the tools of LinkedIn, the professional networking site. Allowing users to separate friends into groupings with separate privacy settings and providing resources for networking could easily bring in more users from the 35+ age group that [...]

By: Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:57:33 +0000

[...] Like Facebook, MySpace will soon allow the notion of different types of friends (family, friends, business contacts, etc). When accepting someone as a friend, you can also set the friend type. When that person visits your MySpace profile, the information they see will be based on the type of friend you are – resume type stuff for business contacts, drunken frat party antics for your college friends, etc. [...]

By: Andrew Kaplan

Andrew Kaplan — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:48:05 +0000

Well, the old saying is if you want to innovate and create real change, a good percentage of your users will complain about the changes. Facebook is growing both in users and number of applications. Having worked with one of the first business applications for sales professionals (ACT! http://www.act.com), they have asked for add-on applications since about 1990. This is still a healthy business for those who continually innovate their addon products. For many of those applications, they had a shelf life of about 2 years before they were incorporated in the new release of the product. In the world of in-line releases, this can happen at any time since there is no duplicating of CD’s, designing the new manual, and shipping it in a box.

However, I do have a few associates who became millionaires when their companies where purchased. The most protected products seemed to be those which were in specialized or vertical niches such as real estate.

As far as grouping friends, this is a needed feature for users such as myself who is a blogger and consultant. There is a need to keep segments of family and friends, close business associates/advisors/investors, and my readers or friends of friends.

Facebook is an infant or adolescent including its management…they will learn, make mistakes and continue to evolve. So far they have accomplished which very few have done which is to create the kind of “buzz” such as this comment to grow their business.

Andy Kaplan
http://www.face...kenthusiast.com

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:15:04 +0000

Not sure why but FB just isn’t that interesting to me. I can’t even get into it. Perhaps I just like real friends rather than virtual ones.

By: Brig Graff

Brig Graff — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:20:29 +0000

boy, I’m getting a little tired of the fake so-and-so guys… It was funny for a while, when it was new & creative. I dunno…maybe I’m just too sleepy right now & I’m being a buzzkill.

By: Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping « Darker Me

Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping « Darker Me — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:41:13 +0000

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