Top 10 Facebook Feature Wishlist
After using Facebook, attending a developer conference and speaking to advertisers, I’ve built a Facebook roadmap. Not an application, widget or API wishlist, it’s a wishlist for Facebook platform functionality. To be sure, Facebook has initiatives focused on growing site and “ecosystem” functionality. They encourage app development through the fbFund. They encourage partner interfaces through [...]
fbFund Winners, Some Killer Apps
Facebook is actively expanding platform functionality launching Facebook Connect and free classifieds in May, 2008 and redoubling efforts to build a music service in October, 2008. All point the way to a more robust platform.
Then, on October 15th 2008, Facebook announced 25 winners of its fbFund $25,000 application developer grants. Each is entered to win [...]
Facebook to Developers, Build Your Own Traffic!
Facebook Platform (fbPlatform?) is Dead, Long Live fbConnect! While this is bad news for Facebook app developers, it won’t come as a surprise as they’ve probably noticed the almost 50% fall in traffic to their widgets since the Facebook site re-design.
What can Facebook widget developers do? According to Scott Rafer, they should get on [...]
All Social Media Is Local 2008 - Edelman
All Social Media Is Local 2008
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Edelman takes us on a walk around the social networking world:
Asia: Bulletin boards & forums drive social media. China 120M board users of 250M internet users. Language (2200 languages) + Relevance (gossipy nature) requires in-depth local knowledge.
Russia: adoption is slow due [...]
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