D-Day For Facebook App Developers

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22 points·alexandros··7 comments

This is really great news for regular ol' Facebook users. I'm glad they realise how spammy all the apps have gotten and are doing something about it.

It should also be educational for application developers who build their entire livelihood on the back of someone else's web application.

That's a good point, but you can't deny that there are a lot of opportunities around social apps and games. And the whole pitch behind Facebook Connect makes complete sense: you don't want to duplicate a whole social network for your little app.

At Startup School, I talked to somebody who was building something on top of Twitter and Facebook, but his philosophy was "it won't last forever, but let's take advantage of it while it works".

I don't have a solution for this and it doesn't look like something is really emerging to solve it.

You're absolutely right, and there is certainly a lot of money to be made. I don't know what the answer is; but I know I personally would have to think twice before putting all my eggs in the Facebook or Twitter basket.

I agree.. Creating a separate channel for app notifications is a great idea. And if notifications are of VALUE, users may pay more attention.

I'm late to the Facebook dev game. Just started experimenting with app building this month. My initial impression wasn't great. Their documentation is hard to follow, and very few of the examples actually worked.

Many of the API features have been removed or changed, but the documentation hasn't been updated to reflect this. Looks like it's only going to get worse.

Compared to developing apps with Amazon's APIs, it's really a mess.

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