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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Disqus - Latest Comments for Alan</title><link>http://disqus.com/people/91a3debf6c804aaef9bd9d9135ad8344/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:39:56 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Facebook Apps or Widgets, Which Are Better?</title><link>http://allfacebook.disqus.com/facebook_apps_or_widgets_which_are_better/#comment-1638692</link><description>Another key difference between Facebook apps and Widgets (especially OpenSocial Widgets) is that Facebook apps are currently largely focused on trivial and/or fun things, whereas the pool of Widgets is mostly (RSS) content aggregation plus some utility.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In my blog post at &lt;a href="http://socialnetworking.activestate.com/2007/11/29/food-fight-zombies-v-usefulness/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://socialnetworking.activestate.com/2007/11...&lt;/a&gt;, I examine this difference a bit further.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'm curious: why do so many of the popular Facebook apps focus on trivial pokes, food fights and vampires, while most widgets simply aggregate content?</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Alan</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:39:56 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>