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Facebook Apps Are Still for Toddlers: The Visual Proof!

in News on May 2, 2008 at 7:18 am PT

Last year, BoomTown caused a tempest-in-a-Web-teapot by asserting that Facebook apps were, for the most part, inane. And, while many said the market would develop from the frivolous to more useful–making Facebook a true “utility,” as promised by Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg–that day is not today for the social networking site or its third-part widget makers. Instead, it’s still Pinocchio at Funland (and we know how that turned out!).

The Children's Hour: Facebook Apps Are for Toddlers (There, We Said It)

in News on October 9, 2007 at 11:37 am PT

Fine, call me a grumpy old lady, because I don’t want to pass around a toasty complex carbohydrate globally. Right now on Facebook, I have been trying to decide what to do near on two weeks or more, after receiving a “Hot Potato” tossed to me by my old boss, Washington Post Co. CEO and Chairman Don Graham. For those who don’t know what a digital Hot Potato is: It is an widget (also called a third-party app) created by a very nice-looking group of guys at a design outfit called Hungry Machine for the Facebook platform. “You have to pass it on and watch it travel around the world. 27,012 other people did!” With all due respect to Don Graham (who is a mentor of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, by the way), Hungry Machine and all world-trotting spuds, I don’t think so.