Comments on: Did Facebook Shut Down Slide’s Top Friends? How Very MySpace Of Them

By: Slide | DreamersCorp.

Slide | DreamersCorp. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:11:51 +0000

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By: Social Applications are Social Networks

Social Applications are Social Networks — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:01:33 +0000

[...] and monetization. [↩]Slide is to Facebook as Paypal was to eBay. Anyone buy it? [↩]See this TechCrunch article. [↩]There’s a broader argument that ceding control in this way is the right strategic [...]

By: Overlooked feature in Facebook - Mind Averse

Overlooked feature in Facebook - Mind Averse — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:09:01 +0000

[...] don’t see TechCrunch, Mashable, or anyone noticing this. But everyone was very quick to get upset when slide’s [...]

By: maddison

maddison — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:48:05 +0000

By: Productive Procrastination » Facebook Adds ‘Top Friends’ Functionality

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:24:11 +0000

[...] Slide’s app was pulled from the facebook shelves for violating TOS by allowing users to see partial profiles of others regardless of friend status. [...]

By: Infotron » Blog Archive » Facebook Continues War On App Developers. This Week: Super Wall

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:10:37 +0000

[...] push the limits on acceptable user interaction. Last week it was Slide’s Top Friends App, which it briefly suspended. Later Facebook also suspended another popular app, Social [...]

By: Facebook Continues War On App Developers. This Week: Super Wall

Facebook Continues War On App Developers. This Week: Super Wall — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:07:21 +0000

[...] push the limits on acceptable user interaction. Last week it was Slide’s Top Friends App, which it briefly suspended. Later Facebook also suspended another popular app, Social [...]

By: Slide And Vh1 Team Up To Annoy The Hell Out Of You

Slide And Vh1 Team Up To Annoy The Hell Out Of You — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:29:30 +0000

[...] has recently been in the news for having their popular Top Friends application disabled by Facebook. The application apparently [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:25:25 +0000

I have been wondering what happened to the Fortune Cookie application and the My Questions application. Both have vanished without a trace.

By: Hacking The Facebook Platform For Data Portability : VCsAndAngels - Venture Capital / VCs, Angel Investors, Startup News, Etc

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:30:29 +0000

[...] in policing how developers are accessing and using these data, and rightfully so. Last week they shut down the Top Friends app for allowing too much data access and earlier this year they canned Google [...]

By: Hacking The Facebook Platform For Data Portability

Hacking The Facebook Platform For Data Portability — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:30:10 +0000

By: ThePlaz

ThePlaz — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:25:42 +0000

I have an application called GridView. It's very similar to Top Friends. Plus very large changes coming in a week or two.

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 26, 2008 | Techno Portal

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 26, 2008 | Techno Portal — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:24:37 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:09:54 +0000

@Tim – Good point! These guys are all connected.

Seems to me like FB is flexing some muscle… but Slide seems to be laughing all the way to the bank. http://www.slide.com/advertise

While FB struggles to keep order in the ranks of its exec’s (Matt, Owen) and to figure out a way make money… Slide has all the engaged users and a great way for advertisers to access the core of FB. Y’know. Maybe we’ve seen this story before on TC… um, PhotoBucket/MySpace anyone?

http://www.tech...-the-backstory/
http://www.tech...or-250-million/

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:01:42 +0000

good! hope that garbage never resurfaces again and just disappears from existence.

By: Collin1000

Collin1000 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:49:16 +0000

@really: Your right. Like the article says, slide and rockyou were the first, they came, they ruined the experience for the users, and then new rules were slapped on all the other developers. They got the head start, and then they had a giant massive brick wall put up right behind them so noone else can get where they are.

By: David Kahn

David Kahn — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:26:11 +0000

gosh michael
im getting a little annoyed w/ u
the least u can do is say ur sorry for wrongfully accusing facebook
ur the head of a blog that gives articles-like a newspaper does
dont give your opinion of what happened
learn the facts
then report it
and when your wrong
please say your sry-newspapers even do that (and u know how we all hate those damn reporters that get in our way)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:46:55 +0000

Until they remove these programs, your just opening up your self to hostile spam and trojan attacks by third party hackers and software. This brings back memories of third party apps on facebook that you couldnt access unless you share them with your friends.

By: really

really — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:35:00 +0000

Myspace also suspended Slide’s top friends app for 24 hours last week. They were caught breaking myspaces anti spamming TOS rules. I wish these social networks would grow a backbone and ban slide for good.

By: Collin1000

Collin1000 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:34:08 +0000

So far, the only people happy are all the developers slide has stepped all over on.
http://forum.de...id=83582#p83582

You hit the nail on the head – Slide gets away with breaking a rule, then as soon as we try the same thing to be able to stand a fighting chance, the rules get changed and everyone gets punished in the end.

By: tommy

tommy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:31:58 +0000

HUGE yawn. man is this just such useless news, no offense michael. can’t wait till useful FB apps actually start to surface. then perhaps i’ll use it again…

By: Yawn

Yawn — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:56:26 +0000

@ 1 Arona – LOL!

By: trenety

trenety — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:51:03 +0000

facebook business model is same as microsofts:

somebody introduces feature a

feature a catches on

facebook copies feature a & incorporates into their own system

feature a homeless

By: FaceBook Top Friends Shut Down | Live Crunch

FaceBook Top Friends Shut Down | Live Crunch — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:09:09 +0000

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:25:35 +0000

Wow, absolutely insane.

At first I was sad to see this app go. THEN I checked out CNET.

I think I’m going to be changing the way I use applications a LOT after this, as well as changing how much info I have on my page to begin with. Sucks, now I don’t even want it to show my school’s network.