Archive for January, 2008

MySpace Developer Platform

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

The MySpace Developer Platform is coming soon! Good luck trying to develop for multiple (ever-changing) platforms.

Facebook Freakonomics

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Facebook Freakonomics: Why apps die is a great post explaining the current situation. To sum it up, have fun developing and don't count on making any money.

Apps Are Declining

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Alec Saunders has some very eye-opening stats about the decline of Facebook apps. While some would have you believe this is a foolish conclusion, the numbers prove that the majority of users are feeling app fatigue. But this has always been the fate (f8) of the platform. If you ...

Javascript API = So What?

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Facebook fanboys from all across the web would have you believe that the new JavaScript client library is a big deal. But it is not! The only difference is that the JavaScript library is client-side rather than the server-side API access that has been available since last summer. The ...

App About Pages

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Starting tonight, Facebook is converting the application about pages to use the Facebook Pages infrastructure and format. This is good news, but not if you already spent the time and effort to setup a page for your app. Thanks Facebook for your short-sighted "innovation" that creates more work ...

Clean Your Profile and Kill Apps

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Facebook now allows you to clean your profile. As time has gone on, we’ve received increased complaints from users that friends’ profiles are getting too cluttered, and that people are having trouble finding the information they are looking for on their friends’ profiles. On the other side, users are complaining that ...