Wednesday, May 14, 2008

For Developers, The Facebook Hype Machine is Slowing Down

Last week, developer Jesse Farmer set the stage for some lively discussion about whether the Facebook Platform, revolutionary at its launch, is approaching an expiration date--and it only debuted a year ago. Activity in the site's official developer forum has declined sharply, he observed, new applications are less likely to become successful, and now that there are more destinations for social applications--from gaming sites to OpenSocial--developer activity no longer has a single hub.

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Finding cracks in Facebook: The social-networking supersite is taking flak from users, developers, and advertisers.


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