For those of you who don’t know, for the last 6-7 months I’ve been working on a Facebook application called Honesty Box. Honesty Box lets users on Facebook send each other anonymous messages and replies knowing that there’s a level of protection built in that reduces the likely-hood of spam because of the close nature of the social network. Dan Peguine, a co-founder, hired me to assist him and his partner in June with the explosive growth of the application and I’ve been working on it ever since. Adonomics is currently the benchmark by which applications can guestimate their worth in the marketplace. Of course this estimate and finding a buyer are two different things, but it’s an important gauge of the applications value. We have been tracking our “worth” through Adonomics for a while and have seen some interesting phenomena. Today when I checked our valuation, we were at $6.2 Million! (more…)
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Weekend
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Tomorrow I leave for Memphis leaving Gretchen behind for the fest since we’ve known each other! Oskar and Xavier got haircuts yesterday and Honesty Box for Facebook has been keeping me busy for the last few weeks.
The kitchen here at the house is still under construction, the counters have been installed in the Kitchen (but not the pantry) and the faucet we had selected didn’t fit on the sink, so that will be installed next week. Translation, no running water or dishwasher in the kitchen until next Tuesday! It all started this last Monday morning, when the new counter tops were installed.
Why OpenSocial doesn’t matter - yet.
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
OpenSocial, is a new open standard for applications to integrate with some of the largest social networks in the world. On the surface, OpenSocial is a great move forward for application developers. The learning curve for FBML and FQL at Facebook is trivial at best, but just as learning many similar languages at once, having one simple API to reference is ultimately much easier. The portability of write once, run anywhere brings back to mind the panacea called Java. However, in reality, OpenSocial promotes frivolous time wasting applications that lack any real utility. This may change (and I sincerely hope it does) in future iterations, but for now, Facebook has the social networking platform to beat.
Egg speaking at CommunityNext
Friday, August 17th, 2007Now available for speaking engagements: http://communitynext.com/speakers/#erikg
