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Facebook App users have 5 apps installed on average.
Facebook apps continue to proliferate, but there is a strong “long tail” effect to their adoption. Below is a graph of the number of users of the top 100 apps as of 4pm on June 26th according to...
View ArticleGoogle's OpenSocial benefits smaller social networks
Breaking news tonight about Google teaming up with several social networks to create a set of standards for application developers. The NY Times says: On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by...
View ArticleWhy did Myspace join OpenSocial?
Yesterday was a very good day for app developers with the official launch of Open Social. A particularly good day for Flixster (a Lightspeed company) which was on stage with MySpace, Google, Ning and...
View ArticleBusiness models for apps and widgets
This afternoon I spoke to the Stanford class on Creating Engaging Facebook Apps. As I said at Web 2.0 expo, building big businesses online is hard work. While it isn’t hard to start an app company,...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 has been driven by variablization
The last couple of years have seen an explosion of innovation on the web that has broadly been labeled Web 2.0. There has been a lot of debate about what exactly constitutes web 2.0 but what hasn’t...
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What games work best on Facebook?
Three good blog posts recently about games on Facebook. Brian Green talks to a developer with two games, one casual and one hardcore, and based on that concludes that hardcore games do better: I...
View ArticleMax Levchin on how social networks can build good developer platforms
Max has a good post on what levers a social network can pull to attract and incent a “well behaved” base of app developers to their platform. Summarizing (my words) he says: 1. Let app developers make...
View ArticleHi5 platform stats
Hi5 launched its developer platform at the end of March, opening up access to its 80m+ registered users. It is a top 20 traffic site globally, although not as popular in the US. Unlike other platforms,...
View ArticleNutanix launches and a new era for data center computing is born — No SAN or...
The Nutanix team (ex-Googlers, VMWare, and Asterdata alums) have been quietly working to create the world’s first high-performance appliance that enables IT to deploy a complete data center environment...
View ArticleThe next billion dollar games company to be founded will be built on Google...
Supercell raised $130M at a $770M valuation and got a lot of press for it recently. It is well on its way to being a billion dollar game company. Also on that track are companies like Kixeye (a...
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