http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/24/platforms-and-developers-part-three-what-platforms-like-facebook-can-do-to-expand-the-developer-ecosystem/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:27:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/24/platforms-and-developers-part-three-what-platforms-like-facebook-can-do-to-expand-the-developer-ecosystem/comment-page-1/#comment-858198 Lee Hower Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:20:11 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=98278#comment-858198 My basis is simply number of users who've used a 3rd party app on a given platform. The latest numbers I saw from Comscore indicated that >60% of FB users have installed an app. And the top FB apps have more active users than the top MySpace apps... for example 20M+ for Slide's FunSpace on FB vs 11M for Mobsters on MySpace. Other platforms like the iPhone simply don't have comparable installed bases yet.<br><a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/" rel="nofollow">http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/</a><br><a href="http://apps.myspace.com/Modules/AppGallery/Pages/index.aspx?fuseaction=apps&st=totalinstalls" rel="nofollow">http://apps.myspace.com/Modules/AppGallery/Page...</a> My basis is simply number of users who've used a 3rd party app on a given platform. The latest numbers I saw from Comscore indicated that >60% of FB users have installed an app. And the top FB apps have more active users than the top MySpace apps… for example 20M+ for Slide's FunSpace on FB vs 11M for Mobsters on MySpace. Other platforms like the iPhone simply don't have comparable installed bases yet.
http://www.new.facebook.com/apps/
http://apps.myspace.com/Modules/AppGallery/Page...

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2008/09/24/platforms-and-developers-part-three-what-platforms-like-facebook-can-do-to-expand-the-developer-ecosystem/comment-page-1/#comment-858197 Jeffrey McManus Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:31:20 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=98278#comment-858197 You state that "Facebook is the clear leader at present among emerging software platforms". By what measure? You state that “Facebook is the clear leader at present among emerging software platforms”. By what measure?

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