Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/Month Facebook RoR App

Re:Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/M... by konsl on Thursday February 21, 2008 @01:12AM (#120273)

I wouldn't expect to see value-adding apps too soon... unless FB is willing to make some significant changes to their platform. There's simply no incentive to make them right now -- virality continues to be the main criterion for app success.

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Re:Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/M... by ivankirigin on Thursday February 21, 2008 @01:46AM (#120287)

The #1 value added app for lots of people, whether they know it or not, is exportability insurance. Make an app that tracks everything externally so that if Facebook starts to suck, you can migrate the next platform.

The existence of that portability might actually ensure things never start sucking.

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Re:Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/M... by wallflower on Thursday February 21, 2008 @11:32AM (#120505)

I think five years from now we won't be logging into Facebook but we'll be talking to our mobile devices and they'll be scheduling reservations for us (it will all be autonomous agents doing tasks/chores for us on behalf of our openID)

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Re:Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/M... by klein_waffle on Thursday February 21, 2008 @11:27AM (#120499)

I believe it's been tried. They got shut down.

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Re:Friends for Sale Architecture - A 300 Million Page View/M... by ivankirigin on Thursday February 21, 2008 @03:30PM (#120680)

the end is nigh

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