Why create a facebook app now?
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Why create a facebook application now given that there are thousands out there already and facebook has created lots of restrictions preventing the viral growth that the earlier apps experienced. Even the new ones like the one released by Yahoo only have 5000 users.
It may have made sense in the beginning - Can anyone see any benefit of this now? or is it just hype ?
It may have made sense in the beginning - Can anyone see any benefit of this now? or is it just hype ?
Lets think about it like this, what happed when Microsoft released an OS and restricted the App developers, gave them hell. Well they wrote a new OS right. So when facebook doesn't go to bed with the app developers .. ummm, I am just wonderin out loud.
Well - its not really about facebook. They are also responding to their users telling them to stop apps and that its spamming them.
But as a company, why would you create an app now if at all? Whats the business benefit if any ?
But as a company, why would you create an app now if at all? Whats the business benefit if any ?
traffic and service recognition with a very focused market group. facebook's valuations, as inflated as they may be, could hold some truth based on the market they have targeted themselves into.
The trick of course, is to build something compelling. The platform will only mature with time, and the really compelling applications - that aren't just profile-based applications, or aren't heavily rooted in a site off of Facebook - haven't been built yet.
That's where you come in :)