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The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and
is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
Dave maintains three weblogs, The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, focused on business and
industry analysis,
the eponymous
Ask Dave Taylor
devoted to tech and business Q&A and The
Attachment Parenting Blog,
discussing topics of interest to parents.
Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.
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What is it with all these stupid Facebook apps?
Maybe I'm just in a curmudgeonly mood or something, but every time I log in to Facebook there's yet another daft invitation from someone to sign up for some idiotic widget or app or another.
From vampires and hurled sheep to circles of friends, super friends, movie favorites and super walls, I am finding that I spend a not insignificant percentage of my time rejecting these impassioned invites to be more intimately intertwined with my Facebook pals.
It's not like there are a dozen that everyone uses, either. According to the Facebook applications area, there are now 9493 applications I can hook up with and then pester my erstwhile friends to join.
Is it just me, or are you getting sick of this Facebook graffiti and pollution too?
Call me old fashioned. Call me out of date and out of touch. But I still have a fundamental problem with a software revenue model based on providing a service that no one would pay ANYTHING for. How much stickiness, how much longevity, and just how much ad revenue is an app going to generate that you aren't willing to even pay $1 a month for?
Jim, The Grinch
Posted by: Jim Pollock on November 28, 2007 9:51 AMThrow me on this grinch-y bandwagon too. I have been offered apps to sell t-shirts, throw snow at people, race virtual cars---the stupid list goes on and on. But since I am getting so many invotes, I assume it means people are spending lots of time on Facebook which drives their CPM model... Right? --Ken (purethinking.typepad.com)
Posted by: Ken Barber on November 29, 2007 9:25 AMDave, I'm with you and the other cynical old curmudgeons. I like facebook, but I refuse to install apps or join groups - with very rare exceptions.
Posted by: Steven Pam on November 29, 2007 7:36 PM
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