Comments on: The Facebook after effect: Pleasure & Pain

By: GigaOM Facebook’s Infrastructure Non Issues «

GigaOM Facebook’s Infrastructure Non Issues « — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:02:04 +0000

[...] on tap to throw at whatever the traffic surge brought to the company. Maybe Times was paying too much attention to big problems faced by little companies that built apps for the Facebook [...]

By: Rodney Rumford

Rodney Rumford — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:58:56 +0000

There is going to be huge adoption from the developer community and new, useful and compelling applications will rise to the surface.

These new applications will act as a point of gravity to drive the network even larger. When i can live within facebook and satisfy a large portion of my online requirements is when this will become mainstream for people over 25 year old. ;)

We are rating and reviewing these new facebook applications and widgets at http://www.facereviews.com

Cheers
Rodney Rumford

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Mon, 28 May 2007 19:10:00 +0000

I would still rather be developing platforms and frameworks to have thousands of users develop with than to be one of those users/developers…

By: OnWebStartups.com Admin

OnWebStartups.com Admin — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:57:00 +0000

That an interesting article, it once again demonstrates how many of the successful startups build on other existing platforms. One of the videos on my blog about the rise of YouTube mentions how YouTube depended on existing social web apps which contributed to YouTube’s success. My blog is at http://OnWebSartups.com

By: tomo

tomo — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:32:05 +0000

@realist,

why do you think they owe us any information on their revenue? where did you find any projections from facebook? they sure would be interesting to see.

By: Top Posts « WordPress.com

Top Posts « WordPress.com — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:58:45 +0000

[...] The Facebook after effect: Pleasure & Pain “Every once in a while a platform comes along that allows people to build a completely new application — […] [...]

By: realist

realist — Sun, 27 May 2007 22:18:51 +0000

Is facebook launching all this new stuff to distract us from the fact they have given us no update as to how their revenues are doing compared to their own lofty projections?

By: intellectualbeatoff

intellectualbeatoff — Sun, 27 May 2007 19:46:25 +0000

Facebook is crazy man.

By: James Lim

James Lim — Sun, 27 May 2007 08:56:54 +0000

It wld be interesting to see how Facebook competes with Myspace and how Myspace will respond. Time will tell.

By: officedoodles

officedoodles — Sun, 27 May 2007 07:18:53 +0000

It’s not going to help the downfall of facebook. There doomed!

By: tomo

tomo — Sat, 26 May 2007 19:42:07 +0000

Facebook should add some quality control around their partners capacity or do something that ensures their users will have a pleasant experience if they use these third party apps/plugins/widgets. Having said that, for most startups these so called ‘problems’ are a dream come true.

By: la

la — Sat, 26 May 2007 19:34:51 +0000

Ahhh Joe… someday you’ll understand :0

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 26 May 2007 17:41:29 +0000

God, seriously who cares. I am so bored to death of Facebook and Zuckerberg. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

By: Oren Michels

Oren Michels — Sat, 26 May 2007 16:15:08 +0000

That's the way it often goes with APIs. The whole point of them is to get lots of new people using your stuff...but the potential of this new distribution channel is hard to estimate, and provisioning in advance for the load is even harder.

I've written a few posts on the impact of the Facebook platform launch and how it relates to API infrastructure.

By: daily.gigaom

daily.gigaom — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:11:19 +0000

[...] from the perspective of physical networks and Reed’s Law. And while I was doing that, I ended up doing another post, adding to the overall noise. Damn, sometimes, I can’t help [...]

By: doug macdonald

doug macdonald — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:02:33 +0000

I love everyone