Matt Maroon: The Anti-Social Graph

Re:Matt Maroon: The Anti-Social Graph by jgrahamc on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @04:03AM (#170397)

I think he makes a good point about the apps. There are literally thousands of apps and when I was involved in Facebook app development I saw _nothing_ that used the social graph for anything interesting.

I actually started a social news system inside Facebook (called Wildfire), the idea was that stories would only get voted up if people passed them from friend to friend. It went nowhere, perhaps that was my fault.

Has anyone seen a really cool Facebook application?

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Re:Matt Maroon: The Anti-Social Graph by yters on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @04:10AM (#170404)

I haven't but I've had two ideas I thought were fairly interesting.

1. Tomagochi app where your creature's features are representative of your friends friends. I.e. people with fewer friends will contribute more unique and interesting features to the creature and people with many friends contribute more material for making bigger creatures. This would motivate people to seek both ends of the spectrum.

2. Trusted distributed computing. People would bid for users' cpu time, and users choose who they want. Bids can either be money or promise of payout from the job's results.

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Re:Matt Maroon: The Anti-Social Graph by danw on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @05:34AM (#170442)

I like the dopplr facebook app. It let's you know if any of your facebook friends are on dopplr as well as dropping your dopplr status into your minifeed. Simple and effective.

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