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As a facebook app developer i am aware of what shaky ground it is. I must attest the best days of the platform was when Morin was in charge, people were actuall

As a facebook app developer i am aware of what shaky ground it is. I must attest the best days of the platform was when Morin was in charge, people were actually flocking to make apps and the platform was adding features. Ever since he left, feature pruning started, policies were not enforced, facebook changed their designs every month and the platform team inexplicably started reinventing the wheel. Then at some point facebook banned our AdSense revenue stream, and soon after they required 30% cut of our virtual goods. We have now switched to an external website using facebook connect and are happy with it. I am thrilled that Google+ is building a competing platform.

danmaz74 15y ago
This could be an important differentiator for Google. Let's hope that the competition will heat up on this.
- csarva 15y ago
  If you're looking to Google for a solution then I think you're looking in the wrong direction. Just look at the latest crop of anti-competitive complaints against them -- like Yelp for one.
  - danmaz74 15y ago
    Well, at least for now they are the underdog, so it would be in their interest to be more open in the "social" space. The Yelp case, whatever you may think about it, is in a completely different realm.
  - mattdeboard 15y ago
    Yelp complaining about anticompetitive practices by Google is about as hypocritical as you can get.
AJ007 15y ago
There are very strong parallels with the Facebook platform and companies building their business model around free traffic from Google. Small guys get walked all over while bigger ones that reciprocate dollars back to the traffic source (such as Demand Media in Google's case, or Zynga in Facebook's) suspiciously get the red carpet. As a business owner you should absolutely exploit every opportunity you can to get those users from wherever the traffic is flowing from. However, if you don't hedge your bets, you may find that in 3 years instead of having a nice business you have absolutely nothing.

danmaz74 15y ago

This could be an important differentiator for Google. Let's hope that the competition will heat up on this.

csarva 15y ago
If you're looking to Google for a solution then I think you're looking in the wrong direction. Just look at the latest crop of anti-competitive complaints against them -- like Yelp for one.
- danmaz74 15y ago
  Well, at least for now they are the underdog, so it would be in their interest to be more open in the "social" space. The Yelp case, whatever you may think about it, is in a completely different realm.
- mattdeboard 15y ago
  Yelp complaining about anticompetitive practices by Google is about as hypocritical as you can get.

AJ007 15y ago

There are very strong parallels with the Facebook platform and companies building their business model around free traffic from Google. Small guys get walked all over while bigger ones that reciprocate dollars back to the traffic source (such as Demand Media in Google's case, or Zynga in Facebook's) suspiciously get the red carpet. As a business owner you should absolutely exploit every opportunity you can to get those users from wherever the traffic is flowing from. However, if you don't hedge your bets, you may find that in 3 years instead of having a nice business you have absolutely nothing.