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Follow Up to Andrew Chen’s Good Post on Facebook Developers – It’s Mostly about Being Famous

Written by charles January 23, 2008 3 Comments

I have been talking to a number of folks I know who are spending a lot of their time building applications or services for the Facebook platform and I have been struggling to really understand the motivation. Then I read this great post on Andrew Chen’s blog about the difference between people who are motivated […]

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OpenSocial – Is Opening Up the Answer?

Written by charles October 31, 2007November 23, 2007 Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading a bunch of posts about Google and friends launching the Open Social. So far, my favorite posts are this one, this one, and this one. Overall, I am skeptical (are you surprised?) that simply “opening up” is the recipe for victory. A few thoughts arranged in some rough form. At the end […]

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Are Facebook Ad Networks Worth the Trouble?

Written by charles August 14, 2007August 14, 2007 3 Comments

My friend (and former college drawmate) Sundeep Ahuja posted the full version of his post about Facebook ad networks here (a redacted version was posted on Inside Facebook yesterday). I think it’s a good overview of what’s happening in the Facebook ad universe today and I have a few thoughts in response. Let me say […]