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Octazen is (was?) essentially a Facebook Connect competitor and since they were acquired several of their core services have been disconnected. This reads to m
by aresant 17y ago
Octazen is (was?) essentially a Facebook Connect competitor and since they were acquired several of their core services have been disconnected.
This reads to me as a strategy about whittling the market to one option, Facebook's, and not much else.
- coryl 17y agoI don't think thats it, Octazen wasn't really a facebook connect competitor at all. They sold scraping scripts that let you login and grab data. http://web.archive.org/web/20080619054335/http://www.octazen.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080619054335/http://www.octazen...
- aresant 17y agoI think you're right - they are not a direct competitor. However, their API sets eliminated the need for Facebook Connect because you could make virtually any data set portable, check it out in the wild: http://www.traderjaw.com/invite.php http://www.traderjaw.com/invite.php or google "Powered by Octazen Solutions Invite Engine"
- jfarmer 17y agoThe technical specs are significantly different, but they solve a large, overlapping set of distribution problems. If you want to build a viral app/game/whatever you have to pick your platform. Traditionally, if you did it on the web, you'd use something like Octazen to download address books and send invites. That's how almost every non-FB viral startup bootstrapped itself, including Facebook! So Facebook just made it a LOT harder to build something viral without using Platform or Connect.