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If this app "takes off" on the world wide interweb, it'll be lucky if it has 10-20k users within a few months. If it "takes off" in facebook-land, it'll be doi

• davidw 19y ago
  The apps here (see below) don't look very businessy, and while the demographic I'm targeting isn't perhaps quite the same as existing summary sites, I don't think it overlaps a great deal with the lolcats type users, either. Are there "serious" facebook apps? http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6191391-9.html?tag=ne.gall.pg http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6191391-9.html?tag=ne.gall.pg
  • ph0rque 19y ago
    It isn't surprising that FB apps are not very serious, since FB is in its formative stages as a "real" website (one that is used for serious things, for arbitrary values of serious). I think that if facebook keeps growing like it is now, we will see the introduction of serious apps that in turn will attract more users, etc etc. Remember, 10 years ago no-one thought the internet will be used for serious things.
• aston 19y ago
  I won't knock FB for the advertising upside. But those 100k won't really be users of the service, which is what you really want for something so community-centric.
  • sbraford 19y ago
    How many people signup for sites like these, and return rarely or never use any of the registration-enabled features? Are those "real" users as opposed to FacebookApp-enabled users? I add an app in my Facebook. If it's popular enough, every few days I get a bump in my newsfeed from a friend who's actually using the app (albeit within FB). Splash some ads on the landing pages or figure out a freemium model, and all of a sudden it starts looking like a real business (embedded via iframe/fbml!).