DISQUS

"faceosphere" doesn't do it for ya?!

Isn't Dan also the creator of the "I am Hungry" app? I haven't looked at the honesty Box, but what a POS "I am Hungry" was/is!

isn't "I am Hungry" the Golden app?!

nope, I have not spoken to anyone from AppStars.com. Not because I don't want to, it's because they haven't responded to my (repeated) emails.
But the joke is on them, they will forever be associated with the (worthless)"I am Hungry" app!

Reid: In theory there is nothing different between theory and practice.

*Paging "Reid": Thanks, that's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!*

Jesse,
90% of 5,000 is 4,500. If you had to put a monetary value on any one of those apps, about what would it be? $20? 50?! (I wouldn't pay five cents for one, but maybe others feel different?)

Shouldn't the title of this be changed to "Ebay auction leads to 'questionable' results (not 'good')?

hey, appstars, how come you haven't responded to my email(s)?

if 84 apps are getting any kind of usage, and there are now 5,242 apps, that leaves 5,158 apps that aren't being used?!
In other words, it's a bad day to be a Facebook Fanboy?

good post, but you shoulda posted some numbers (from the report):
Only 84 Facebook apps generate 87% of the traffic, and only 45 apps have over 100,000 users! (let's see, if there are 5,300 apps, and 84 apps get serious traffic, that leaves....5,216 Facebook apps that are 'dogs'?!)

"While it’s a big range, it would make sense that they would want to exit with the amount of buzz surrounding Facebook applications currently."

I'm trying to follow the logic here, but I'm not sure I get it; if you are high on Facebook, and think it's only going to grow and get better, doesn't it follow that the time to sell would be, well, never?

Lee,
Stop copying and pasting! Nick is right, because Facebook can develop it's own versions of apps, who in their right mind would buy something that could be essentially worthless overnight?

Hi,
I redirect a domain name, MarkMayhew.com, to my Facebook profile. Are there advantages to using this FB WordPress theme (instead of the FB profile, itself?)

So that this discussion may make more sense to you, please allow me to invite you to install the "I am Hungry" app, so that you, too, can laugh your ass off!:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...

I think each and every Facebook app that has been developed, or will be developed, is worth $10M (or more) each. And they will only increase in value.
I'm sorry, I thought I was Lee Lorenzen for a minute!

Ask Dan if you want the reserve price, don’t just speculate. You don’t know what it was and the information is not available publicly.
It says "no reserve", maybe there was a reserve, maybe not. Bottom line, who knows, who cares? Bottom line is that "I am Hungry" is a worthless steamin' pile of doggie dooof an app, that whomever owns it,and at whatever price they got it, is going to be a laughing stock!

1) The original auction was created with no reserve and was hovering around $1.5k-$1.6k
2) After talking with us as Adonomics the developers of “I am Hungry” realized they would be underselling if they kept it at this price.

Are you kiddin' me? At $50, they would be gettin' more than the "I am Hungry" app is worth.

3) We advised them on how to restructure the deal (a refund for developer time spent and payment to come in installments) in the hopes that it would increase the price.

Gee, how brilliant, I guess this is why "consultants" make the big bucks?!
And Lee doesn't "write" overly long posts, he "copies and pastes" his overly long posts.
5) People outbid themselves in an attempt to just barely surpass the now-hidden reserve price.
"Just barely"?! Since when is bidding $20K, when the reserve is $5K, "just barely surpassing?!

Nick,
Have you looked at faceosphere.com or http://MarkMayhew.com lately?! We're still friends, aren't we?!

time has told: have you installed/used the "I am Hungry" app? It is a certifiable, worthless POS excuse of an app, it is not worth $50, let alone $20,000!

Thanks for all the support/kind words. This will be interesting to see how this plays out over the coming weeks and months, I can't imagine that the participants will ever admit to engaging in a phony auction, what will get them, in the end, is how the "I am Hungry" app develops (or rather, doesn't develop).
For the hell of it, I installed the "I am Hungry" app...it is as simplistic/worthless an app as I have come across, it might be worth $50, on a good day.
And notice how Lee Lorenzen, Facebook's #1 Cheerleader remains silent (after copying and pasting that nonsense above).

Nick,
The title of your post should have read, "ValleyWag, WebProNews, the faceosphere, AND Rev2 Have Got It Wrong"
http://www.rev2.org/2007/09/30/ebay-auction-for...

I have written to the people at AppStars.com myself, info@appstars.com, but I haven't heard back. Perhaps they'll respond here, so that we sceptics can move on. Until then, I'm still sayin' that there is no way that, lookin' at the bidding history, that that ebay auction is legit.

"Do you think an acquisition by Google will help them to rival Facebook?"
Nick, The way this is worded is not correct. The way you have worded this, it's asking if a Google acquisition occurs, will FriendFeed be competing with Facebook. (At least that's the way I read it, but then, I've been out of school for a looong time!)

Mike, I think you mighta missed the point of Neil's post!