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Re: Post-redesign, Facebook’s platform working well for some applications

Jim — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:57:45 -0000

Raj.
Don't forget getting your idea from birthday alarm.

Re: Post-redesign, Facebook’s platform working well for some applications

Raj Lalwani — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:45:11 -0000

Eric:

Nice article. We knew we were growing very rapidly - but didn't know that we were the fastest growing app on Facebook. We are now ranked #18 by Facebook by monthly active users. As of Oct 29, 2008, we have 3,821,250 monthly active users and 5,254,474 total users. Redesign did help us quite a bit. SocialCalendar is, in general, a useful and engaging app but we have also taken pro-active steps to keep up with the redesign - thanks to David Jordan, our co-founder and Chief User Experience Officer.

BTW as far as I know we didn't get any special treatment from Facebook. Based on performance-based quota, we do have a limit of 30 invites per user per day. We do owe a lot of our success to a very persuasive platform Facebook has created.

Raj Lalwani
Founder & CEO
SocialCalendar.com

Re: Post-redesign, Facebook’s platform working well for some applications

Malinda Jackson — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:33:13 -0000

I've been a Facebook fanatic since I found Packrat earlier this year. The changes are sad, from what I've read on the discussion boards, the majority is upset with the complete redesigning of the game. You use to post on your packrat board "Pack Open" or "I need a Ghost Ship". Other players would either help themselves to what they needed or help me find a Ghost Ship. NOW, it's not possible to open up your pack. There was a lot of player interaction, people becoming friends, friends helping friends. That is gone. I am an educated person with a high profile job, yet I'd spend my free time searching for the cards I needed in my friends packs or in the rats packs. You'd eventually find what you needed. Now you have to buy what you need or wait until they are no longer 'hot' cards and you might find one somewhere. The entire object has changed. It's more of a solitaire game now. Very sad for many of us that became addicted to the original game that was so much fun! I have had 7 friends quit since the revamping. I sure don't spend much time there any longer.

Re: Post-redesign, Facebook’s platform working well for some applications

Jason — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:05:34 -0000

Facebook basically only feeds their own apps to the home page. Once in a while you may see a feed item from a "Great App", but the average app will never get fed to the home page. Surprisingly, nobody is talking about that (or even noticed?)