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CBS Sports Granted 100 Invites Per Day

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

A few days ago I posted about users revolting against CBS Sports and their March Madness application. Well today the controversy hit the fan. A post to the Facebook developers forum brought up a interesting thing that took place today. Suddenly, the CBS Sports bracket was granted 100 invites pe ... Continue reading »

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  • What did anybody expect? The company is still trying to secure funding, and although I'll probably get whacked on the head for this, I think that having a few Applications that truly demonstrate the community potential will be good for all Application Developers in the long run.

    I mean, invites alone aren't enough to seal the deal. If you want to take on the big boys at CBS, come up with a better idea, a better marketing scheme, and face the music: the social web isn't going to be fair for a while.

    Maybe until Google's "do no evil" mantra comes into play, and OpenSocial/FriendFeed rules the web.
  • I really don't see why not. It's a good application. I just wish there weren't so many other applications so my friends would pay attention to the bracket invite I sent instead of ignoring it along with the 10+ invites they get from other apps every day.
  • You're absolutely right Nick. It's hard to come out and talk about this, as we don't want to get punished by Facebook.
  • so my account is now down for "maintenance" due to my outspoken views on the matter :)

    nicely done, facebook.

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