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The service we were building (I work at app.net) was a social app discovery service. It integrated with Facebook to show you what apps your friends were using a
by quartus 14y ago
The service we were building (I work at app.net) was a social app discovery service. It integrated with Facebook to show you what apps your friends were using and downloading, and display stories about the apps you use.
- ryanmerket 14y agoSo you were extending Facebook's core features and you didn't expect Facebook to think that was being too competitive? I'm pretty sure I've seen this somewhere else... at least a dozen times.
- mikegreenspan 14y agoAren't you always extending Facebook's core features when building with their API? The point of leveraging Facebook platform is to build amazing products that Facebook doesn't have the time or resources to create (see zuck's statement on the importance of Facebook platform during the earnings call).
- quartus 14y agoWe used Facebook's APIs and Open Graph in our app discovery service. It was built and released before Facebook's App Center was announced, and Facebook dev-relations employees had previously been supportive of our endeavor.
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- natep 14y agoAnd how is it related to join.app.net? I'm very confused that these two different things have the same name.