Comments on: Facebook clamps down on spam-driven application growth

By: Facebook’s platform issues: Less developer activity, slower app growth » VentureBeat

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:51:22 +0000

[...] increasingly restrict how applications can do things like message users, something that has been happening since the platform launched, but that has grown more restrictive in recent months. Proposed profile interface changes would [...]

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Facebook Fatigue | Taxidriver Marketing — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:30:39 +0000

[...] my penis size quizzes and freakin’ pokes and flying penguins (I do love penguins, though!)! They’ve also taken other measures to try and stop the spammy nature of some of the third party applications, such as limiting the [...]

By: Heights Media Group | INTERACT » Archive » Characteristics Behind Future Successful Facebook Apps

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:18:43 +0000

[...] Word on the street is that Facebook Applications are quickly loosing their luster. Increasingly users are viewing Applications as SPAM and Facebook itself is taking notice. [...]

By: Is Facebook Trying To Change Course? - Sugarrae

Is Facebook Trying To Change Course? - Sugarrae — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:31:18 +0000

[...] myspace merged with linked in and classmates.com… now if they could control the spam issues allowing applications has created, and keep working on the ability to monetize their user base without annoying them, [...]

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By: prototype » Blog Archive » Sketching & Spreading on and through Facebook

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:13:47 +0000

[...] by app developers to publish experience touch-points, and relevant events. There have been notable cutbacks in the viral growth of application, but all for he [...]

By: Four factors determine how much a Facebook app is worth « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:24:46 +0000

[...] Over at Valleywag, a Facebook Application Developer complains that no matter what an app is worth, it’s no longer worth the effort to develop apps for Facebook now that virality has been turned down. [...]

By: Edward Frederick

Edward Frederick — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:35:49 +0000

Howdy,

Maker of the Visual Bookshelf app here.

Just as a clarification, my app never dispatched any emails (but did have a mass invite option, per the status quo). I’ve been profitable and growing pretty steadily/uniformly despite the changes, although it seems like the whole app craze has calmed a bit. It’s a real app with real use.

http://appaholic.com/index.php?display=2481647302

Check it out for yourself:

http://apps.facebook.com/facebookshelf

On another note, anyone want to own a monetized facebook app?

By: Harshal Vaidya

Harshal Vaidya — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:17:58 +0000

There are still a few kinks Facebook and the makers of Appsaholic are trying to iron out. We appreciate your patience as we try to fix these issues. Your problem has been logged – if it persists, please come back in a few days. Thanks!

Appsaholic doesn’t work.

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:10:52 +0000

Facebook appears to let developers duplicate each others’ app names. As readers will also notice from the charts in this article, there’s more than one “Books” app.

Thankfully, though, Appsaholic and Appaholic avoid such confusion via an “s”.

By: Appsaholic

Appsaholic — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:59:42 +0000

The Facebook app that tracks applications and allows comparison and Viralness stats can be found at http://apps.facebook.com/appsaholic/