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Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace
- andre 19y agothe only question I have: How are the developers protected from facebook launching similar products when their product proves that it makes money or draws a lot of traffic? Edit: Fixed
- danw 19y agoVaild point, but no need to shout! Theres always a risk when using a platform. There are some ideas that you can do which facebook itself are unlikely to eg mosoto
- andre 19y agoGood point too! To me this feels like signing up for a franchise instead of starting your own business, you have control, but not full control. For some purposes or ideas it's a great.
- danw 19y agoTheres an interesting quote in the gigaom article: one company even telling us it was considering transitioning its current million-plus-user application into being purely a Facebook application. Sounds like a crazy plan. Is this hotornot possibly?
- natrius 19y agoEven if you don't use facebook's platform, they can still launch similar products. The bigger threat is facebook discontinuing the platform or restricting what you can do, though I doubt they'll do either.
- far33d 19y agoI'm there now.. this is a really amazing set of ideas...
- andre 19y agoFrom GIGAOM: "Now Zuckerberg says you can serve ads on your app pages and keep all the revenue, sell them yourselves or use a network, and process transactions within the site, keeping all the revenue without diverting users off Facebook." This sounds interesting.
- russ 19y agoI can't wait until it launches tonight - I've been strung out since the announcement @ 3...
- schoudha 19y agoWow, Zuckerberg is genius. I remember everyone (including myself)criticizing Facebook for not taking the Yahoo deal. If this works, they might become the first truly great and useful portal. Google, are you guys paying attention?
- russ 19y agoYah, I thought he was an idiot for not taking the Yahoo deal. I'm humbled by the announcement today.