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Stay N' Alive: This New Trend in Facebook Apps Looks Ugly

  • Nick O'Neill · 3 months ago
    Totally agree Jesse ... these aren't really applications, just press releases.
  • Jesse Stay · 3 months ago
    Nick, exactly. Hey - it got my attention. :-)
  • Jesse Stay · 3 months ago
    Nick, exactly. Hey - it got my attention. :-)
  • Thom Allen · 3 months ago
    I've noticed more and more of these non-apps making the rounds. Some are interesting, others are just marketing. For example, I would not want to watch Hulu shows on Facebook. You lose the user experience by watching in Facebook. I agree they should be using Facebook to drive viewers to their own website.
  • Jesse Stay · 3 months ago
    Thom, exactly. There are other ways they *could* use Facebook, but the
    native functionality of their website isn't it.
  • Andrew Warner · 3 months ago
    From what I've seen in my interviews, launching a crappy first version is a good tactic. It helps get feedback from users and outside developers and makes for a much better product evolution.
  • Jesse Stay · 3 months ago
    Andrew, I agree, but this isn't even a first version. It's just their
    website in an iframe on Facebook. They could have just kept their website
    as is and had the same functionality as they do here. As Nick says - it's
    just a press release.
  • Mark Essel · 3 months ago
    Great advice Jesse for businesses that are thinking about integrating their services into Facebook apps. Leveraging tracking data and the social network of users to deepen the experience is what it's all about.

    Hope the Hulu folks read your suggestions.
  • Jesse Stay · 3 months ago
    I hope so too Mark. I have yet to see them respond to many things on the
    social web so we'll see.