Comments on: Facebook Platform, One Year Later

By: LuckyCal » Blog Archive » Avoiding Viral

LuckyCal » Blog Archive » Avoiding Viral — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:21:32 +0000

[...] But we’re simply not willing to force, trick or deceive our users into signing up their friends. In addition to the simple moral reasons, as Kevin writes, “If you behave like a disease, people develop an immune system”. And if you look at how Facebook has been tuning its invite mechanisms, that is exactly what is happening. Techcrunch reports about it here, here and here. [...]

By: facebook f8 on Eventbrite - Eventbrite Blog

facebook f8 on Eventbrite - Eventbrite Blog — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:37:56 +0000

[...] fans of what is certainly one of the most important software application platforms of all time, and arguably the most transformative of the business Web. In their own words: “Please join us at f8 [...]

By: Facebook Turns Platfrom Open Source Via fbOpen

Facebook Turns Platfrom Open Source Via fbOpen — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:42:31 +0000

[...] comes a little more than a year after Facebook Platform first launched to allow third party developers a way to get their [...]

By: Facebook to open-source its platform « The Equity Kicker

Facebook to open-source its platform « The Equity Kicker — Wed, 28 May 2008 11:34:28 +0000

[...] sourcing its application platform and calling it FBOpen. From Techcrunch: Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow [...]

By: trademanufacturer.com

trademanufacturer.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:58:05 +0000

I don’t agree u!

By: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform

Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:53:58 +0000

[...] around its platform, a story we broke yesterday. As Michael reported: Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » La plateforme Facebook passe en Open Source

TechCrunch en français » La plateforme Facebook passe en Open Source — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:24:33 +0000

[...] de nombreuses sources, cette semaine Facebook devrait annoncer le passage de plateforme vieille d’un an en projet OpenSource. L’effet immédiat est que la plupart des réseaux sociaux seront [...]

By: Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform

Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:08:04 +0000

[...] soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow [...]

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By: rascunho » Blog Archive » links for 2008-05-25

rascunho » Blog Archive » links for 2008-05-25 — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:30:26 +0000

[...] Facebook Platform, One Year Later acebook has had its share of missteps, but no matter how much they improve the platform, it is only as strong as its apps (which at this point simply aren’t very good). (tags: http://www.techcrunch.com 2008 mes4 dia24 at_home facebook OpenSocial blog_post history) [...]

By: waterbagbagy

waterbagbagy — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:42:20 +0000

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By: allwood

allwood — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:41:14 +0000

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By: fb api developer

fb api developer — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:19:05 +0000

“What users really want (or what they should want) is to control their own data”

What a user “should” is an individual right, and no advice from a blogger seems to be necessary. We don’t mind keeping our data in people we trust! Once let out data can not be recovered back, but data can be liberated anytime.

By: KikiModo

KikiModo — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:34:42 +0000

I smell another bubble in the horizon

Kiki

http://www.StartupBuzz.com

By: Ridiculopps

Ridiculopps — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:46:49 +0000

Facebook got away with using the fbFund announcement for PR, but not putting their money where their mouth is.

They interviewed dozens of companies but never backed any of them. Surely there was one good app in the mix. What gives? How’d they get away with a year of that?

Pure marketing ploy.

The platform itself, however, was a super strong move in web development. No question.

By: JC

JC — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:29:25 +0000

#8 You are right Sam. And I can´t understand how they couldn´t see such predictible response from developers and users.

By: Mirritil

Mirritil — Sat, 24 May 2008 20:00:22 +0000

I think one of the best examples of how applications fail is “Feedheads”, application that allows you to insert your Google Reader shares into your newsfeed. It is very nice and enough for the task; but it failed to get enough userbase.

But half a year later Facebook announces that they will allow people to feed their Google Reader shares into newsfeed using new native features - and everyone (Techcrunch editors included) rejoices, like if it was not possible before.

So, to sum up: native features will always win over 3rd-party apps. Just because they have better leverage and easier way to the user.

By: James Franco

James Franco — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:41:40 +0000

I can’t believe you didn’t ink to this report: http://20bits.com/2008/05/06/t.....-platform/

It provides a detailed quantitative analysis of the developer forums and the platform, showing that developers are less committed to the platform today and that it’s much harder to succeed now than it was even two months ago.

By: Barry Welch

Barry Welch — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:46:13 +0000

I liked this post. You could have also said:

”
Facebook Platform, One Year Later:

Well, that sucked.

Photo credit: Dave Morin
”

That pretty much sums it up for me as a developer.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:32:07 +0000

1) most of the little junk apps will go where they belong - to the junk yard. VC’s are so funny. They often reject well thought out realistic business models (making ‘only’ millions instead of billions’) for the next frenzy. Here is one of the conversations that I am overhearing in my inner ear: Junk App Dev Team: ‘oh we got 100.000 users throwing pics of dead chicken at each other - this is going to be the next revolution….’ VC: ‘oh my got we’ve got to load them with capital before someone else does…’ FaceBook a week later: ’sorry VC the chicken thing only happened in the first week - then our users started to understand that the chicken are totally dead and that it’s actually just sick pics of dead chicken, so they got grossed out and lost interest…’

2) ‘The damage is done….’. Spot on! Lot’s of people I know are done with it an don’t want to be bothered by the chaos of the app platform approach. This definitely opens the door for the next ‘facebook’, no matter how big the network effect already is.

3) If facebook would understand the business they’re in at this stage they’d get to the concept of turning FB into the backbone of social interaction. By opening up and offering a really useful API, they’d become the central identity management system for thousands of useful apps. They should remember that their core audience won’t stay 19 forever. At some point they’ll have to start working and get things accomplished. Any solutions around that should be the real FB business model (i.e. give people a chance to utilize their social network to launch their career or start their business… there’s so much to do that makes sense)

The form of protectionism they display right now will make them more vulnerable then anything else. Of course they’ll have to watch google to not eat their lunch but that’s what they have all those millions in funding and big brother MS for….

It’s about time for them to look into the long term goals instead of trying to create next weeks new hype machine.

Peter

do you follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:00:19 +0000

This article feels “fair and balanced” in the Fox News sense of the term. No mentions of the money some developers have made exclusively through Facebook. No mention of an entirely new way to spread software that has matured and spawned dozens of copycats in under a year. Not any graphs which show the ever-increasing app-creation rates. Not one quote from any happy developers actually involved with the process (they exist, though TC won’t tell you).
Who’s pulling TC’s strings?

By: SimpleCipher

SimpleCipher — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:51:39 +0000

Great article. I like the fact that it is a fairly objective view on a very complicated issue. Personally I think the reason that it didn’t work quite as planned is because of the way people used it, adding, on a whim, any application they thought looked even slightly interesting. One thing Facebook could have done to help prevent this is give users more details about an application/a full preview of the app, before they installed it.

I’m skeptical about the new Profiles system but perhaps it can reduce the clutter.

By: Wade

Wade — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:34:51 +0000

A professionally written and balanced article on techcrunch? Hey Arrington, you’d better fire this jerk! : )

By: Nate L.

Nate L. — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:23:16 +0000

@Frank

As it stands, I completely agree.

By: Faisal

Faisal — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:55:03 +0000

In my opinion , Facebook platform is a good idea with poor implementation.

I liked Facebook initially because it use to have clean interface , unlike Myspce cultured interface , which i hated so much.

Now?

It became so cultured to the extend that when visiting a friend profile it take me 10 minutes to figure out where his wall is.. that is assuming i didn’t click browser exit right away!.

Bring us ” clean Facebook” back!