Why is he complaining about Facebook when all the company did was respond to user complaints about apps that behaved badly?<p>When thousands of people got daily invites to stupid apps, something had to be done. Regardless of whether facebook had ever announced the verified apps program, the new restrictions would make sense.<p>When you develop for a young platform (particularly a proprietary one) you should realize it may be a moving target. It's far from extortion!
Are people still making money from facebook apps these days? I thought it was over a while back (and thus why the mass exodus to develop on the iPhone although apple's approval process sucks.)
The article left me with a few "Facebook apps"-newbie questions. Hope someone here will be able to answer.<p>1. How are Facebook apps monetized? Advertising?<p>2. What do applications use the collected user data for? I once saw a description of the kind of access an application gets to the user's data, and it seemed a bit daunting.
As far as i see it, for media/gaming apps there are two platforms that you can (try to) make enough money to buy a small island with: facebook and iphone. Both are flooded now with competitors, and not of the stupid sort, so good luck...and await the xbox mobile!