[lbo-talk] facebook issues?

[shag carpet bomb]

yeah butt, that's their business model. they share an API and get other 
people to do the development work for them. I didn't look at socialfixer 
yet (so don't know if it uses the API) but the whole point of "social" apps 
like this is that by sharing access to the code base and not placing a lot 
of restrictions, as a business you don't have to hire developers, testers, 
user experience analysts, etc to work on the edge cases. Instead, you work 
on the stuff 60% of your users will tolerate and let the geeks geek out 
building an "app for that" or a plugin to make it do what they want. that 
or they let the stupid fools who think they'll get rich go to town. in 
either case, someone else dumps all their resources into development and 
takes the risk - not FB .

At 12:13 AM 3/15/2012, Gar Lipow wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:33 PM, martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:07 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> >> Rebooting seems to have solved the problem. I didn't think of 
> quitting/restarting Firefox. It was behaving the same way on Firefox as 
> on Internet Explorer. This was all on WIndows XP.
>
>One thing I *strongly* suggest for anyone on facebook. Install social
>fixer. http://socialfixer.com/  It works in all the major browsers
>other than explorer.
>
>Among the things it can do:
>1) Keep your newsfeed in chronological order instead of letting
>facebook choose what you see. Facebook has a setting for this, be
>keeps resetting it back to "Facebook orders posts by what it thinks
>you should seet"
>2) Facebook by default adds a link to very comment you make to your
>wall. Social fixer can automatically delete those automatic posts.
>3) If you hate timeline, it can undo a lot of the stuff that people
>who hate timeline find most annoying - including the mutli-column
>format. (Note this is installed in your browser, so it affect how you
>see stuff, not how anyone else sees stuff.)
>4) In general it gives you a lot more control so of the way way
>facebook  presents itself to you. You can leave anything you like in
>place, and alter much of what you don't like in terms of interface.
>
>Honestly, Schmuckerman ought to kiss the sociafixer developer's ass or
>at least throw him some money, cause I'm pretty sure socialfixer is
>helping to retain users who would otherwise be driven away.
>
>
>
> >
> > You did mention Facebook behavior. I've found that the Zynga Scrabble 
> app seems to cause most of my recent reboots.
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