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The site seems to be down at the moment, and the Facebook app is obviously not working also.
We need to get a Last.fm app now...the only recently listened to app up there right now uses iTunes only.
http://mashable.com/2007/05/24/facebook-f8-live/
Either way, this is an excellent change. I wish they'd create one which derives its music data from Pandora.
The hard fact and truth of the matter is that Face Book makes hundreds of millions of dollars off of the backs of its 25 million members and has no plans to share the true wealth (money) of the revenue they generate with them.
Does Mr.Zuckerberg our anyone at Face Book believe that they add more value to Face Book than the 25 million members ?
If the answer is no then the revenue generated and the value added to Face Book should be shared monetarily with the members that have have generated the revenue and added the value. Without the members Face Book would have little or no Value.
We now live in a technical age where a close to approximate monetary value can be assigned to the value and revenue that Facebook members add to the company. This fact can no longer be hidden, it can be found and it should be known by all of the members that generate the wealth and revenue.
Why cant we see a graph on Face Book that discloses to the members the amount of revenue that is generated from them in terms of revenue generating partnership deals and advertising ?
Why cant Facebook give an equitable portion of its ad revenue directly to its 25 million members ?
Of the revenue that Face Book generates, as a percentage how much is given back to its 25 million members in a monetary form ?
The advertising revenue that is generated by Face Book come from the actions of the 25 Million members, not the Face Book staff, so the members should receive the lions share of the revenue
How much stock in the company do the 25 million members that generate hundreds of millions of dollars for Face Book own. Because the 25 million members generate most if not all of the revenue and value for Face Book, shouldn’t they all be stock owners ?
As a group the 25 million members add value to the company and generate revenue, as a group they should own stock in proportion to the vaue that the add and the revenue that they generate.
How much is Microsoft paying Face book for the rights to serve ads to Face Book members? Since the value of the ad deal is probably based on the amount of members that face books has, it would make sense that the members should be given a share of the money that Microsoft has paid to Face Book for the rights to serve the ads. Mr Zuckerberg and the rest of the Face Book team should give the 25 million members the money they deserve for the value that they add to Face Book.
If yahoo would have acquired face book for one billion dollar, would any of this money be given to the 25 million members that have given Face Book the one billion dollar valuation ?
For a one billion dollar acquisition that is by and large based on membership size as well as advertising revenue generated by the members; it seems that giving each of the 25 million members 1 million dollars would be an almost equatable reward for their participation.
There is little difference between how Face Book treats its members and the share cropping schemes that were used to generate wealth for rich land owners on the backs of poor people and slaves. At least in the old share cropping schemes the works received a small portion of revenue, in the current situation members receive none of the revenue from the content that they create. Face Book and other sites that do not share the revenue and wealth that members create for them do not understand that the times have changed and the plantation game will no longer work. Now members have the ability to leave the plantation and to either create their own communities or to become members of communities that will pay them an equitable portion of the revenue and value that they create. This is one of the key revolutions of technology. There are no barriers to owning the means of production. Members are the means of productions, and are the value add. The pyramid that had members who are content creators and add value on the bottom has now been turned upside down. Unlike slaves that could not break free of the wealthy plantation owners bonds, members now have the ability to demand their equitable share and if they are not given it they can leave without retribution.
It is time that members demand to be equitably rewarded (in the form of money) for the revenue and value that they generate.The 25 million Face Book members as a group should demanded to become stock holders and to be given a part of the revenue that they generate from advertisement clicks as well as a portion of the revenue that is generated from partnership deals based on their action and their numbers . If the members do make this demand and they are not rewarded in an equitable manner they should leave Face Book and any other site that will not reward equitably for the value and revenue that they generate.
From Wikipedia
“Sharecropping typically involves a relatively richer owner of the land and a poorer agricultural worker or farmer; although the reverse relationship, in which a poor landlord leases out to a rich tenant[2] also exists. The typical form of sharecropping is generally seen as exploitative, particularly with large holdings of land where there is evident disparity of wealth between the parties.[attribution needed] It can have more than a passing similarity to serfdom or indenture, and it has therefore been seen as an issue of land reform in contexts such as the Mexican Revolution. (Sharecropping is distinguished from serfdom in that sharecroppers have freedom in their private lives and, at least in theory, freedom to leave the land; and distinguished from indenture in sharecroppers[][]entitlement to a share of production and, at least in theory, freedom to delegate the work to others.) Sharecropping is often described as a never ending cycle of debt.
Sharecropping agreements can however be made fairly,[attribution needed] as a form of tenant farming or sharefarming that has a variable rental payment, paid in arrears. There are three different types of contracts.
1. Workers can rent plots of land from the owner for a certain sum and keep the whole crop.
2. Workers work on the land and earn a fixed wage from the land owner but keep none of the crop.
3. Workers can neither work for nor get paid from the land owner, so the worker and land owner each keep a share of the crop.
There are three different types of tenant farming. According to A. Alkalimat, renters who were to hire land for a fixed rental to be paid either in cash or its equivalent in crop values; share tenants, who furnish their own farm equipment and work animals and obtain use of land by agreeing to pay a fixed percent of the cash crop which they raise; share-croppers who have to have furnished to them not only the land but also farm tools and animals, fertilizer, and often even their own food, which they had to pay back with a larger percentage than shared tenants. Tenant farming was a way in which to keep African Americans and other poor groups under control but make them feel like they had some importance. Though many blacks participated in tenant farming they still were looked at and labeled as the lower class.
Because of the high rate of illiteracy among blacks at the time, they were often taken advantage of. Poor, illiterate and intimidated by post Civil War violence, many former slaves agreed to sharecropping contracts that were designed to keep them poor [PBS]. Eventually this exploitation led to violence. Courts would usually rule in favor of landowners when these incidents were brought to court.
Myspace allows anything to be posted because all you need is HTML. Will Facebook now be the same way?
A Skype widget made from Flash, that is embedded onto your MySpace page. People can click the 'Skype Me' button and it will initiate the call via your client etc.
A Skype application on Facebook would be able to hook into your existing network of contacts. No need for a separate list of users. No need to add anybody. Also, I would be able to see notifications in my News Feed. 'Friend C left a voicemail message via Skype'. Clicking it would play it for you, within Facebook. Id also be able to leave a voicemail back, or send them a regular Facebook message. Also, Skype could use the FB messaging system to send an email or text alert to the fact I have a missed Skype Message.
etc etc
Here's my humble contribution. Snazzy links to all of your other online profiles from your Facebook profile. Coded in a few hours and fueled by Red Bull. See? It's easy!
I am not sure this is SO market changing and SO big. And Salesforce.com did the same long back. Ofcourse, I am also not sure if I am right :-)
Prior to this announcement, Facebook had made it abundantly clear that the only way for brands to participate was via sponsored groups. That is clearly no longer the case, based on this announcement?
Spending a lot of money on a sponsored group vs. hiring developers to create cool branded widgets seems like no contest to me.
Why is Facebook F8 revolutionary? Facebook just delivered Web 3.0
http://campusrank.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/why-...
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I've posted what I think are the best 25 Facebook apps so far at Inside Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...
http://apps.facebook.com/connections
http://apps.facebook.com/flipframes/
It is easy way to find new blogs, websites and podcasts which your friends are reading/listening regularly - so you can be shure about quality - your friends likes it so you will probably likes it either.
Try it yourself :) thanks
http://apps.facebook.com/freestufftimes
The Skewlbuoy LivePortal - flash application that aggregates interesting and relevant content into your profile
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...
The Skewl Campus - integrates facebook with vBulletin
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...
We're very pleased with the results, even if we do say so ourselves, and would like to invite the community to please try it out. The salient feature of HashMash (just as has always been the case with our web-based HashThySelf service) is to require no tedious user interaction such as locating the face or eyes, and never to make results presentation contingent on the user having to register or give out personal info. We aimed for an app where you could just say "Here - Hash my photo" and bingo - the results pop up.
Of course, we'd greatly appreciate your comments on this forum or ours and will treasure your feedback to make some future version of HashMash a truly community designed app.
Please try it.
Thanks.
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http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...
http://www.hashthyself.com
Thanks.
This is a cool app to play email pranks !
http://apps.facebook.com/mail prank/
http://apps.facebook.com/mmp_mypets/
You can check it out at http://apps.facebook.com/socialvote/
Let us know what you think...
We set out to do a restaurant review app with a completely different spin and came with Restaurant wars. An app that is part function and part fun - It offers all of the advantages of user driven restaurant reviews, while at the same time, allows you to compete with your friends, to see how your tastes in restaurants stack up to the ratings given by other Facebook users and people throughout the Internet.
Check it out: http://apps.facebook.com/restaurantwars
Can't wait for OpenSocial to bring these apps to Social Networking websites everywhere haha.
If you watch the demo Google did, it appears that we will have these apps on most SN's shortly, which ROCKS!
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id...
Highly recommended!
Those would be most the popular in fact.
http://www.techhit.com/FBLook/
Lets you update your Facebook status, see your friend statuses and get notifications on new requests using Outlook, without having to open the browser or any other applications.
http://apps.facebook.com/goanimate
create your animation online!
http://apps.facebook.com/myspacecomments/
www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=792922...
You can play thousands of free flash games directly in your facebook account, also you can add them to your favorites! You can see who also played the current game and his or her favorites and battle against friends!
Personally I like the Did Today application - http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id... (It's a journal app or how I like to use: A super "What are you doing right now?" app!)
I've also used (and well still do to browse cars) the Sell My Ride Application - http://apps.facebook.com/sellmyride/ This app lets you sell your cars, etc.. for free on Facebook. A cool little app it is :)
Anyways, thanks for the great post!
Bertamus
If your application is about buying your friend's cats, then make some exclusive cats only available to those who fill out a survey.
Each survey pays you around $1.50. It's that easy, and CPALead.com's tools automate the whole process for you.
With over 150 free surveys available, I cannot see for the life of me why more people are not running these tools that automate the reward process and automatically show the latest surveys on your application!
check out that app!!!!!! its my favourite one on there at the moment
http://apps.new.facebook.com/radioshackmymosaic/
Grabbler is a true multi-player turn based board game that rivals Scrabble. There are various word games out in the web space but apart from Scrabble we did not find any other board game that can engage a multi-player environment. We therefore believe there is a market out there for an alternate game that can continue to challenge users to build their vocabularies while at the same time be strategic in nature.
Game play requires the players to create interlocking words using alphabets placed on cubes. The objective of the game is to grab as many cubes of your opponents as possible.
Advertisers love this because of the targetting of users of a common demographic and common interests rather than the randomness of a casual game.
Players love this because it's highly addictive and has a fresh unique approach to a word game.
http://grabbler.iplaysocial.com
http://apps.facebook.com/grabbler
Rohit Regonayak
iPlaySocial
cartoons to other FB users. I've tried to code, but the instructions are
beyond me. Not very tech oriented. Don't understand about hosting
at another site, etc, no PHP experience, etc.
Any advice?
Thanks,
Rick London
Specially designed for nightlife lovers =)
see it at: http://apps.facebook.com/myhangovers
Here is a a ringtones facebook application by Mobizaar: http://apps.facebook.com/mobizaar/
You can make free ringtones and wallpapers from within your facebook account. Works with iPhone
this is srikanth i need some face book tutorials in flash please send me thanks
Thanks and Regards
srikanth sutari
http://apps.facebook.com/theglassis/
thanks
http://www.facebookguru.com/index.php
http://www.facebookguru.com/index.php
Enjoy!
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http://www.facebookguru.com