DISQUS

this did not just happen today - stats have been wrong for 4 days now.

making apps is easy, so what is your competitive advantage? business 101.

Foolish? The numbers are real and nobody questions the "potential" of the platform.

It has simply gotten very difficult to succeed and fanboys continue to hype Facebook as if it is the Web of '95.

Yeah, this really isn't that big of a deal since it requires users to be registered on Facebook. Maybe if they had added support for OpenID too.

Investing 101 = Diversification.

Hence why it is so critical for developers to create apps that can run on multiple platforms. And this is also precisely why users will eventually demand open solutions to social graphing.

But users always prefer open solutions to walled gardens.

Facebook will need to become more open or they will go the way of Friendster.

As an app developer, I've seen the Facebook over the last two months as well. It's still growing, but at a noticeably slower rate.

name 10 apps that have been developed and financially successful?

1.) cities i've visited getting bought out by trip advisor

given the number of users that many apps have, you'd expect to have a lot of examples, but i think facebook really is changing the fate (f8) of development.

it is getting far too easy to make an app and have massive exposure, which devalues all other apps.

remember when people thought they could create a blog, get a lot of traffic, and then cash out? well, that is the same pipe dream as a popular facebook app.

face it, developers are going the way of factory workers.