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that's f***in bull****.  that really pisses me off!

I wonder what bucket that is...

hahahahahahaah

yea it sucks, but partnerships always screw the little guys

that is like me being mad at toys r us for buying toys from mattel instead of me

Chris Diraddo wrote:

I wonder what bucket that is...

that's not a bucket, it's a wheelbarrow

Yeah, yeah... I understand the "welcome to the real world" arguments, but this is an unprecedented move by Facebook.  They have never given an application this type advantage before, a true functionality advantage.  I did not complain or post on these boards when they were giving CBS incredible marketing advantages (2 million emails to people who hadn't added the app - a direct violation of their own policy, the in-your-face News Feed ad that you could not avoid without taking action).  I understand you can pay for an advantage in that realm.  But to be able to pay to change the rules of the game is an entirely different story.

Forgive me for the sports analogy but that's the world I live in.  The Yankees have more money and thus buy better players than any other team.  Still, they don't win the World Series every year because you still have to beat all of the other teams on a level playing field.  Now what if the Yankees could buy an extra out per inning?  What if the Yankees got to use an extra fielder in the outfield?  That is what Facebook has afforded CBS with this move.

blueadept,

I laughed so hard, I cried...

ball, i suggest creating a new kind of bracket *as a backup/addon contingency app*, whereby users can start a new pool after round one. lets help you out think cbs sports partners. you are adept enough to come up with this, they aren't. their ship's big and has a huge ass, and can't turn as quickly.

senatuskienlee wrote:

JohnFoe wrote:

hahahahahahaah

yea it sucks, but partnerships always screw the little guys

that is like me being mad at toys r us for buying toys from mattel instead of me

I will never ever let myself forget this point: the success of the API here is SOLELY because of developers like all of you guys reading this, not because of big corporations.  The day fb forgets that it is doomed. the day the open API creates an end game scenario with every user having 1 fun wall, 1 top friends, 1 superpoke and 1 superwall, their multibillion dollar wannabe empire is lost.

trust me on this.  as much as I make fun of select devs, there is no QUESTION in my mind the "little guys" are the glue that holds this Open API concept together.  the little guys are the MOST important cog in the machine. MOST MOST MOST important.

- i bet you the cbs app forgot to include a bunch of social network functionalities required to power a social network app (dont ask me to elaborate because i want to see how it fails (or succeeds, surprise me)).
- tell me if you can count on more than 2 hands, how many companies have launched a decent social page.

They have TourneyPoke, wooo!

It's f***ing bull****.


Time to go develop for MySpace!

no way!! this is not fair

ball wrote:

Alright, I've had to erase most of what I had written in this post because I don't want to burn any bridges.  I would love to hear what other developers think about this.

Now I'm curious what the rest of your message was

My take on this is the very simple Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rules.  Facebook's duties are roughly, in order:
- their investors
- their advertisers
- their users
- large app developers
- small app developers

It doesn't mean you have to like it, but I don't see why anyone would expect any different from Facebook, or any competitor.

The link to the app appears to be dead at the moment.

But if fb are allowing 100 invites to some apps because they pay, its a bit hypocritical for them to then say the platform is getting a bit spammy so we've implemented a bucket/threshold system to every app except those ones that are paying us. 

Either stuff is being reported as spammy by users or its not.  Just because someone pays for something it doesn't suddenly make it non-spammy. 

Also, if these guys are willing to pay, then let them.  But they should use the same mechanisms as everyone else, CPC, CPM adverts etc.