DISQUS

Nick-

These changes are great for apps that facillitate messaging and communication between facebook users, groups and events like our CircleUp app does at facebook. We've had to scramble like crazy to facillitate basic things like getting a tshirt order together for 60 people attending an event or matching up riders and drives for a group going on a snowboard trip.

When group admins send out a circleup via a group message, everything is great, but if they are not an admin and have to use notifications, response rates are insanely low.

So anything Facebook does to clean up the landscape will make it possible for truly useful apps to emerge. When we look at the clicks, it seems most people are ignoring notifications entirely.

-john

Thanks, Kristen, for the great coverage. John Payne here, CEO of CircleUp. I just wanted to highlight that most of our users use CircleUp for activities that go way beyond polling as they gather information, decisions, files, links and photos from the groups they belong to.

We have one user who is a soccer tournament director and who circled up 90 soccer coaches attending his tournament with the question “how many t-shirts in each size does your team need?” He got back a single CircleUp Result (instead of 90 emails) with orders for 1518 t-shirts in 6 different sizes which he saved to an excel spreadsheet with a single click. Huge time savings.

Of course, we have other users that simply send a CircleUp around the office with links to the menu at the deli and the question “What do you want for lunch?” Lots of uses, lots of time savings and improved group collaboration. Thanks again.