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Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Tia — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:48:17 -0000

I'd like instructions on how you got the facebook profile box in your sidebar, and the "friend me" button as well. Thanks.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Sam — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:48:39 -0000

"the company generated more buzz in the Valley since Google went public"

what a strange sentence.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

AndrewLee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:35:24 -0000

Nick, it would seem that with the combination of Connect and posting on the Feed, the hope is that Facebook will become the first page you go to on the web to see your friend's actions on the web.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

MarketingPunk — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:00:31 -0000

As a users, the new look has increased my Facebook usage massively. As Facebook started getting more and more MySpacey with all the damn applications, I maybe looked at it once a week. Now I am on at least once or twice a day.

Sucks for app developers for sure, but I feel like the continued appification of Facebook's prime real estate would have eventually led to an exodus of users like me.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

dbrowell — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:27:47 -0000

I would argue that widgets could start evolving a bit to serve Pages. The concept of "using" widgets would change as well. I can envision widgets designed and marketed specifically for institutions and brands to put on their Facebook Fan Pages for manipulation by visitors - but this model has less of a viral one-to-one quality and more about leveraging new features on popular pages to their fans....

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

baratunde — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:55:25 -0000

no surprises here. you make something harder to find, and people use it less. newsfeed and notifications are even more important now. btw, they now offer some feed integration from page activity. apparently, when i bitch, we all win!

http://baratunde.com/blog/a...

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Dave Johnshon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:34:27 -0000

I hate to play devil's advocate, but as a Facebook User and not an app developer, I like the change because some people were "expressing" themselves to the point of being unable to even visit their page. Some of the people on my friends lists were preyed on by spammy apps and resulted in literally hundreds of apps being installed into their profile. These are not overly computer literate people (that's why the spammy tactics worked) and as a result they had no clue how to even remove some of the stuff.

I'd personally like to see something where facebook users can vote on specific apps which make it out of the boxes area, but other then that 90% of the apps were just spammy junk cluttering up profiles...

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Ed Anuff — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:06:03 -0000

I've been talking about self-expression versus social interaction since the FB platform launched, that was the main difference between FB and MySpace widgets. FB was always heavily skewed towards social widgets, but the latest redesign was the final nail in the coffin for self-expression widgets.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Jeremy Horn — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:23:20 -0000

I wrote about the very fact that an order magnitude fewer Facebook applications would achieve any sort of viral adoption. Take a look to read more about how the Facebook design will (and is) changing the way people use it...

http://tpgblog.com/2008/08/...

Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy
http://tpgblog.com

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Jesse Farmer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:04:35 -0000

I don't know if it's so much sharing versus expression as communication versus expression. I have some market research stuff on this re: tweens v. teens -- I'll post something when I find it.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

mmilo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:33:56 -0000

I believe that the new system allows users to move the widgets they want from the box section to the wall section by simply clicking the little pencil icon in the widget header.

This way users will have the ability to decide which widgets they want to use to express themselves with and which ones they wish to relegate to the boxes tab, frankly giving users the option to choose is in my eyes a good thing.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

aholmes360 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:03:20 -0000

Good Points

I think companies should start focusing on their Fan pages and on Facebook groups rather than widgets, in order to generate new and repeat users

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Scott Rafer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:20:33 -0000

Nick, the expression vs. sharing theme is a great one. If you pursue it in the context of comparing/contrasting FB and MySpace, people in the biz would eat it up.

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Peter Yared — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:29:35 -0000

Hey Nick, A badge by definition does not have "Active Users". Apps now have to be actionable and post newsfeed items to get attention. So add some polls or something to it!!! :)

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:25:05 -0000

you are spot on....... i'm glad this is coming out more and more

Chris Cunningham

Re: The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead

Jonathan Kleiman — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:48:37 -0000

Expression = sharing of the highest form