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Not All Apps Are Dead: Causes Traffic Triples in Last 30 Days
Inside Facebook — ... one of the two inaugural “Great Apps” by Facebook back at f8 in July. Facebook’s Ben Ling (now at Google) said at the time that Great Apps appear more like native Facebook applications, meaning they “gain visibility similar to that of our own applications.” It’s possible that Causes is seeing some of the benefits of its Great Apps designation, either through increased News Feed distribution, greater profile publisher visibility, or higher communication channel limits. ...

Platform Monetization is a Two Way Street: Lessons from Facebook and Sun Microsystems
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... platform was turning into a cost center instead of being away to improve the value of Facebook to its users. There is evidence that applications built on Facebook's platform did cause negative reactions from its users. For example, there was the creation of the "This has got to stop…pointless applications are ruining Facebook" group which at its height had half a million Facebook users protesting the behavior of Facebook apps. In addition, the creation of Facebook's Great Apps program along with the guiding principles for building Facebook applications ...

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