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This is really great news for regular ol' Facebook users. I'm glad they realise how spammy all the apps have gotten and are doing something about it.

• icey 17y ago
  It should also be educational for application developers who build their entire livelihood on the back of someone else's web application.
  • Timothee 17y ago
    That's a good point, but you can't deny that there are a lot of opportunities around social apps and games. And the whole pitch behind Facebook Connect makes complete sense: you don't want to duplicate a whole social network for your little app. At Startup School, I talked to somebody who was building something on top of Twitter and Facebook, but his philosophy was "it won't last forever, but let's take advantage of it while it works". I don't have a solution for this and it doesn't look like something is really emerging to solve it.
    • icey 17y ago
      You're absolutely right, and there is certainly a lot of money to be made. I don't know what the answer is; but I know I personally would have to think twice before putting all my eggs in the Facebook or Twitter basket.
  • kakooljay 17y ago
    I agree.. Creating a separate channel for app notifications is a great idea. And if notifications are of VALUE, users may pay more attention.