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Re: Scott Rafer: The Facebook Platform is Dead

zachallia — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:35:14 -0000

sadly true

Re: Facebook Adds Profile Preview Feature

zachallia — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:21:28 -0000

hasn't this been there for a while?

Re: McCainSpace Makes Me Feel Really Connected

zachallia — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:13:27 -0000

lol

Re: Mob Wars, the million-dollar-a-month independent Facebook app, may legally belong to SGN

Zach Allia — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:49:18 -0000

Stuff like this makes me incredibly depressed.

Re: Fixing the Keyboard Issue on the Current Version of PhoneGap

britg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:30:27 -0000

yeah, i hear ya - need to get git up and running so I can commit to my fork on github

Re: Fixing the Keyboard Issue on the Current Version of PhoneGap

zachallia — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:19:50 -0000

no worries, i have a bunch of custom changes too... but was hoping to see some of this get centralized.

Re: Fixing the Keyboard Issue on the Current Version of PhoneGap

britg — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:37:12 -0000

No, sorry I made a bunch of other custom changes for my specific application
so I didn't put them on github or anywhere else. Would you like the this
GlassAppDelegate.m? I can't promise I didn't do something else in the code
for my app though

Re: Fixing the Keyboard Issue on the Current Version of PhoneGap

Zach Allia — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:00:03 -0000

do you have all your changes posted anywhere?

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

britg — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:09:56 -0000

hey no problem!

Re: Extending PhoneGap to Return the iPhone’s Unique Identifier

zach — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:06:31 -0000

awesome... and thanks for figuring out the keyboard issue!

Re: Scarlett Johansson Launches Album on imeem

Zach Allia — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:31:52 -0000

man, I love scarlett but that video was hard to watch

Re: SGN Launches Game Feed

Zach Allia — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:57:53 -0000

Nick.. although I totally agree there should be one place for feeds, it isn't going to happen any time soon. Although it is cool that you can see all your game specific feeds in one place with this new feature, the real great part is that game developers can additionally use this information within their own applications.

Facebook will most likely solve the issue with feed tabs, following their profile tabs release.

Re: Slide, Rock You, and Zynga

Zach Allia — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:17:11 -0000

Fred,

Adonomics Top list is far from a good measure of "the leaders" in the Facebook application space. You talk like Zynga has held it's spot for years now; don't be so confident. The major players, and what I think are the real leaders, are the ones that, among many things, have: organic growth, no need to rely on total user count or DAU as a metric, respect from their users (no reviews don't count because they are filled with spam), and respect in the developer community.

Yes, I will admit Zynga got up there fast, but they had to do the following:

1. By buying really junky applications such as: "My Sexy Friends" and "You're a Hottie"
2. By making imitations of other applications that they see succeeding.
3. By buying a lot of advertising for all of their applications.

I will not go into the slimier things that I have seen Zynga as a company do as I am not here to bash, just to tell you how it is.

In regards to #1, those apps have no staying power unless you pump money into advertising, and/or waste space in other applications with link that say "Add this crappy application for some points." Why not build a reputable company with applications that have real value to the community, and stop worrying about who has the most total users every second?

In regards to #2, I can understand copying SGN games as they are a competitor, but copying games by indie developers is wrong if you want any amount of respect from the community. I go out of my way to tell developers what kind of company Zynga is, because that is my duty to the community.

In regards to #3, I see ads for Zynga apps popping up everywhere. Although it may not break the bank to use the facebook ad networks, it is money that could be much better spent making games and applications that are creative and worthwhile.

Zach Allia
Free Gifts

Re: Interview With Shervin Pishevar

Zach Allia — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:36:03 -0000

Good interview! Shervin is an awesome guy and I definitely think they are going the right direction with SGN. I just hope they stay on track with games and don't try to run over the remaining indie developers with stuff like gifts.

Re: Zack Allia of Free Gifts at Community Next

Zach — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:04:13 -0000

thanks for posting these nick

Re: Free Gift Wins the Award for Most Viral App

Zach Allia — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:14:50 -0000

yay an award!