http://forum.de...id=51981#p51981

Read further down to the 9th paragraph, and you’ll find this line: “However, I think that it was really the Windows app developer community that missed the boat.”

Why do I think he’s smart? Well, if you own a PC today, you most likely use a version of the Office Suite for one application, or more. As a matter of fact, “Excel and Powerpoint make the world go’round” for just about every major US industry, and it’s only a small community of highly technical folks that use alternative apps, open source stuff like Google dabbles with, and of course, the Apple religious cult. Mind you, I don’t actually think MS software is the best, not at all, but they effectively determine the mass market.

My observation is only that the rants, heard above, sound so similar to the Apple enthusiasts that love farting on moron AOL, PC & Microsoft users: basically, the same ‘ol story. But guess what? He hasn’t even said what it really is yet, but only hinted at it with an analogy, which may or may not actually mean that he is pre-empting a move that he predicts Microsoft, or some other big player will make in the future, and doing it in a much more inviting and favorable manner to the developer community, most of you.

I, for one, am just happy to see a VC who, for once, is willing to take a risk and break from the long-standing industry tradition of feeding off of other people’s smart ideas and hard work, by co-investing with you all, the entrepreneur. My god, even if he’s dead wrong with whatever plans that we don’t know for certain, I think we should at the very least admire the fact that his plans involve some level of co-inventing and risk-sharing with other startups, something you’ll never ever ever ever get from an entity like Microsoft.

Where is all the hate coming from? It’s like watching Americans answer questions about political issues they have never even heard of before: everyone has something to say for, or against!

ROFL, get off it. Those guys downloaded all the data en masse from Adonomics and then used it to launch a competing site. It’s hardly original, let alone a technical marvel.

I think it’s too early to determine if, as some have said, this is a joke or not. Lee has been pretty clear about what he thinks is good about FB apps and why he wants to be involved. If he can pull this off, it’ll be very useful. Of course, there’s also a huge risk of collecting too many poor quality apps and alienating advertisers and users by claiming quality where none exists.

If it works, however, we’ll all be looking back in five years talking about how brilliant it was. Lee jumped on a new platform and is trying to control it from as many angles as possible – funding, determining valuation, collecting metrics, ad views, etc. etc. From a business perspective it’s a great idea.

If it doesn’t work, all these TC commenters (not a word) will be pointing to their comments right here and saying “I told you so!”

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

There is a need for a 3rd party to publish audit-able FB app metrics, but it should be a truly independent organization.

…good grief.

Facebook measures active users on a daily scale, so that means 4% of the userbase uses the application every day. Since there’s overlap from day-to-day there’s no easy way to extrapolate this number into the more sensible “weekly” or “monthly” numbers.

Still, 4% every day isn’t too shabby.