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Facebook IM sporadically says the person I'm chatting to is offline or makes me offline, or shows a green dot, then I send an IM, and it turns to a red dot. I hate it's flaky behavior so much, but it can be such a useful tool to communicate with friends, so I hope Facebook fixes it for good soon. FBIM has been flaky since it was released!

Jack Canfield (America's Success Coach, Chicken Soup for the Soul) and Jim Bunch (The Ultimate Game of Life) chose my goal management app On Track to target a relevant CPA banner that pays $100/registration for their Ultimate Life Workshop. Check out the banner in the app here
http://apps.facebook.com/on_track/add_invites.p...

Hi Nick,

The bug is fixed. Thank you for alerting me that new users were not receiving the stated free credit. The credit system is about two weeks old, and while it was extensively tested by many people, no one noticed this single piece of the complex system. Now more users will get to discover the gems in the app thanks to you.


As promised, all users will now have at least two credits to get to fully try the goal and project management systems before being asked to invite friends. If you like the app, it's much more interesting with friends as you can see their goals and support them or work on student projects together. So if users like the app enough to want to use it a third time, they invite 20 friends and instantly receive a credit.

Now that there are free credits at the start of the app trial process, come try it out and discover for yourself why users love how the app is helping them to more efficiently and effectively achieve their goals and complete their projects.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...

Thanks,
Nick

Hey Nick,

This is actually a bug, seriously. My developers are working on figuring out the issue now. The Invite Friends page states
"You’ve been given one credit for free. You need one credit to add a goal or project. Invite 20 friends earn another credit now to use later."

The philosophy behind the design is that let's say you're at a mall. You see a store you like, you want to browse it first, then you find something you like, buy it, THEN you tell your friends. That's why the app is SUPPOSED to give one credit for free. So when this bug is fixed, I'll post here again to invite you and your readers to come back and try it again (without having to invite friends).

To ensure that users have enough credits to fully try the system, I've asked my developers to give ALL existing and new users TWO free credits, so they can try both the goal and project systems. As always, the vision board has no restrictions.

Thanks for understanding,
Nick

Active Daily Users is a skewed metric. It says nothing about the value an app provides. Measuring daily users will create a short term focus just like on Wall Street, unlike Buffett's very successful long term focus. Facebook should at least have weekly/monthly usage. For example Trips helps users plan the complicated task of planning a trip, yet trips are infrequent, giving them the low metric of 3% of active daily users. Though those active users are probably among the most valuable of any app, since they will spend money on hotels, car rentals, and air flights. Installations wasn't good either because a lot of people installed apps, such as Fun/Super/Advanced Wall apps, but hardly anyone used them. I am in no way related to Trips or the Wall apps, but I reference those apps as obvious examples that Facebook needs better metrics. How they can measure value is difficult though.