DISQUS

Alex de Jong · 2 years ago

for us, it's getting in touch with our users and about community and about collaboration on development. I wouldn't know what makes a successful application: i've been a very enthusiastic vampire app user, but it functions completely differently in the network than the way i use my reb me app. For me, features that strengthen community and network ties are what i desire most in an application.

mark · 2 years ago

i wondered the same thing about fb groups/networks. some groups have thousands of members, yet hardly any postings (same for networks).

Tommy P · 2 years ago

Hey Nick, I'm Tommy, I've seen in my bloglog you've been to my site a few times, so thanks for visiting, I like your site a lot and I even run your feed on my new section.

I know exactly what your saying. I was thinking about this last night, I was looking at the most uses for apps and the apps just suck IMO. One of the top apps is zombies vs vampires, I mean I understand people want to have fun, but there has to be something more usefull than that.

I don't know the limits of building facebook apps, but their are some obvious apps that could be put out there that would be so much better than whats currently out there

Paul Malin · 2 years ago

A few thoughts... The Social OS paradigm is here to stay so working on apps and figuring out this space is in and of itself of value. Monetization is going to improve in the short term as ad networks figure out the space and, in the long term, as FB or whatever might replace it grows its user base (by a factor of 10 or more). Finally, you never know what secret sauce is going to pop, hindsight is 20|20 but who knows how close that failed app actually was to having 10million ad impressions a month which would be worth large caishe... I hope!