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Re: The Increasingly Competitive World of Facebook

Dave — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:00:25 -0000

Useless crap seemed to win on myspace. Not sure why it'd be a whole lot different on facebook.

Re: The Increasingly Competitive World of Facebook

Jason Hanley — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:02:23 -0000

I think people have been, and continue to be overwhelmed by applications -- and most of them are just terrible.

I decided to make an app as an educational project, and started looking for "niche" areas that weren't the same Flash-ridden piles of useless junk.

I noticed there were several to do list applications, but they were all difficult to use. So I made "To-Do List".

One thing I've been tracking is the install "bounce rate" -- the number of people that actually keep it installed after trying it. So far I'm at about 70%, so I think a good number of people are finding it useful.

It should be interesting to see how it does over time.

Re: The Increasingly Competitive World of Facebook

Paul Malin — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:08:49 -0000

It also seems like apps have slowed overall. Only TopFriends has over 10m while the group of apps with 1-5m users isn't really that large. You would think that there would be some consensus on must have apps. Finally its possible that having 5 different versions of each app is slowing the development (fun wall, advanced wall, super wall)...

Re: The Increasingly Competitive World of Facebook

Phil — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:50:08 -0000

I totally agree with this. However, I think that slow, true growth is ultimately going to be better than the invite spamming hyper growth apps we see now, both for users and for developers.