Comments on: For-profit app developers versus For-attention app developers

By: bunnyhero

bunnyhero — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:10:43 +0000

i actually don’t like the fact that facebook apps have publicly viewable “scores” (#s of users, etc), and am glad that other social networks (like myspace) don’t have such public tracking. i think it puts too much emphasis on the apparent popularity of apps and widgets, and less on real value. furthermore, the numbers say nothing about *who* the app users are… it’s just another dimensionless number to try to maximize, and it’s because of this emphasis on the ‘game’ that has resulted in all of those annoying tactics used by unethical app developers to maximize their app scores.

By: CG

CG — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:39:18 +0000

What about for-value developers? I know you don’t see that on Facebook, but that’s what entrepreneurs should be doing. Seems the only thing that’s important on FB is being viral.

By: Rob Sandie

Rob Sandie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:52:05 +0000

Nice article! You should expand on this though in other areas....

What about the For-profit vs. For-attention venture capitalists or the For-profit vs. For-attention Entrepreneur.

I feel that this theme applies to so much more on the internet as well. Great post though, really right on!

By: Ross Hill

Ross Hill — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:27:24 +0000

SD, try http://maxlevchin.wordpress.com/feed/

By: SD

SD — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:22:33 +0000

Very interesting post and Max is someone whose thoughts you’d like to follow. Therefore I was quite surprised to see that he did not have an RSS-feed on his site?!? Makes you wonder if it really is his blog or just someone doing the ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ kind of thing? Well, time will tell. Thanks for a great post anyway.