Comments on: What Facebook’s upcoming newsfeed enhancements mean for app virality http://webcommunityforum.com/2008/05/what-facebooks-upcoming-newsfeed-enhancements-mean-for-app-virality/ News and Conversation about Online Communities Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:06:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jason Preston http://webcommunityforum.com/2008/05/what-facebooks-upcoming-newsfeed-enhancements-mean-for-app-virality/#comment-14056 Jason Preston Fri, 09 May 2008 17:54:12 +0000 http://webcommunityforum.com/2008/05/what-facebooks-upcoming-newsfeed-enhancements-mean-for-app-virality/#comment-14056 Not exactly a representative poll, no, but it's a lot better than "I was talking to my friends who said..." (which I have also done). As to the one-line stories, it's not specified by FB, I assume one-line stories are doled out based on actions taken within an application as chosen by developers (as they already do now), and FB will attempt to group similar actions together, i.e. "pete, ross, jane, and bethany have uploaded photos to FlickR." Not exactly a representative poll, no, but it’s a lot better than “I was talking to my friends who said…” (which I have also done).

As to the one-line stories, it’s not specified by FB, I assume one-line stories are doled out based on actions taken within an application as chosen by developers (as they already do now), and FB will attempt to group similar actions together, i.e. “pete, ross, jane, and bethany have uploaded photos to FlickR.”

]]> By: jope http://webcommunityforum.com/2008/05/what-facebooks-upcoming-newsfeed-enhancements-mean-for-app-virality/#comment-14019 jope Thu, 08 May 2008 22:30:04 +0000 http://webcommunityforum.com/2008/05/what-facebooks-upcoming-newsfeed-enhancements-mean-for-app-virality/#comment-14019 "very few people grant their applications access to the feed anymore." Umm, based on a poll of Developers Garage attendees? Hardly representative of the larger userbase. =/ I'm concerned about the specifics of that third item, "applications can publish one-line stories to mini-feeds without needing user approval", in particular what conditions may trigger such stories. “very few people grant their applications access to the feed anymore.”

Umm, based on a poll of Developers Garage attendees? Hardly representative of the larger userbase. =/

I’m concerned about the specifics of that third item, “applications can publish one-line stories to mini-feeds without needing user approval”, in particular what conditions may trigger such stories.

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