Comments on: What you need to know about FaceBook http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/10/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:59:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anthony http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/10/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-15033 Anthony Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:28:39 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/10/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook/#comment-15033 Everyone is gaga over the development platform but who does it really benefit.<br><br>Certainly not the developer. If you actually had an application worth developing you wouldn't allow Facebook to dictate the terms. Example in the conditions a developer agrees to Facebook reserving the right to charge you (read revenue stream after IPO) and then they say that if you don't like things you can essentially walk. Also they mention that they could be developing a similar application to yours at the same time. You know that means....<br><br>Really a great idea by the Facebook VC's to increase the speculative worth of Facebook. (Fb fund etc etc) So if you're a VC or Mark Z great idea. If you're a developer with a serious application go it alone and build it free of Facebook... Everyone is gaga over the development platform but who does it really benefit.

Certainly not the developer. If you actually had an application worth developing you wouldn't allow Facebook to dictate the terms. Example in the conditions a developer agrees to Facebook reserving the right to charge you (read revenue stream after IPO) and then they say that if you don't like things you can essentially walk. Also they mention that they could be developing a similar application to yours at the same time. You know that means….

Really a great idea by the Facebook VC's to increase the speculative worth of Facebook. (Fb fund etc etc) So if you're a VC or Mark Z great idea. If you're a developer with a serious application go it alone and build it free of Facebook…

]]> By: Anthony http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/10/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-11973 Anthony Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:37:21 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/10/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook/#comment-11973 Everyone is gaga over the development platform but who does it really benefit. Certainly not the developer. If you actually had an application worth developing you wouldn't allow Facebook to dictate the terms. Example in the conditions a developer agrees to Facebook reserving the right to charge you (read revenue stream after IPO) and then they say that if you don't like things you can essentially walk. Also they mention that they could be developing a similar application to yours at the same time. You know that means.... Really a great idea by the Facebook VC's to increase the speculative worth of Facebook. (Fb fund etc etc) So if you're a VC or Mark Z great idea. If you're a developer with a serious application go it alone and build it free of Facebook... Everyone is gaga over the development platform but who does it really benefit.

Certainly not the developer. If you actually had an application worth developing you wouldn’t allow Facebook to dictate the terms. Example in the conditions a developer agrees to Facebook reserving the right to charge you (read revenue stream after IPO) and then they say that if you don’t like things you can essentially walk. Also they mention that they could be developing a similar application to yours at the same time. You know that means….

Really a great idea by the Facebook VC’s to increase the speculative worth of Facebook. (Fb fund etc etc) So if you’re a VC or Mark Z great idea. If you’re a developer with a serious application go it alone and build it free of Facebook…

]]> By: Eva http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/10/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-11963 Eva Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:05:31 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/10/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-facebook/#comment-11963 Re: internationalization. Holland uses Hyves.net (ugly and slow loading, modeled after MySpace maybe?) which was developed a few years ago by students at the University of Amsterdam. It's HUGELY popular, at the level of Facebook in Toronto, and has been for some time. A few are slowly dribbling into Facebook through people like me who live in a Facebook country, and they always say "Oh, so this is something like Hyves?" It's not the language (everyone speaks ENglish in Holland anyway) but it's the fact that there's already something LIKE Facebook that everyone uses. It's only useful if your friends are on there too, and all their friends are on Hyves. Re: internationalization. Holland uses Hyves.net (ugly and slow loading, modeled after MySpace maybe?) which was developed a few years ago by students at the University of Amsterdam. It’s HUGELY popular, at the level of Facebook in Toronto, and has been for some time.
A few are slowly dribbling into Facebook through people like me who live in a Facebook country, and they always say “Oh, so this is something like Hyves?” It’s not the language (everyone speaks ENglish in Holland anyway) but it’s the fact that there’s already something LIKE Facebook that everyone uses. It’s only useful if your friends are on there too, and all their friends are on Hyves.

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