Comments on: Facebook Blogging Tips Application Misses the Point

By: Teresa Valdez Klein

Teresa Valdez Klein — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:57:00 +0000

Just an update on the app: we’ve now added a new canvas page that displays past tips and allows people to submit a tip from a location other than their profile.

By: Tinu

Tinu — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:15:27 +0000

Maybe you can do a post about the top 5 features a faceapp should have? Or the top 5 objectives to be met - maybe even best practices? The level above developers seem to be reading your blog, not to mention Facebook execs. Or I could shut up and just hire you to advise me… hm…

Seriously though, I’d link to that.

By: awergrehg

awergrehg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:30:21 +0000

Won’t accept criticism? Too bad. Not telling anyone about this blog or ever coming back.

By: Teresa Valdez Klein

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:05:32 +0000

Alas, I have to agree with you that our application doesn’t do most of the things we’d like it to yet. When we first conceived of it, nearly all the features you suggest here were in the original plan. But we had to scale way back once we got a sense of the time requirements. We’re only a six-person firm and we’re juggling planning a massive conference and many consulting projects. Our development team is already stretched thin. But we knew that this was a necessary first step into the Facebook Platform realm.

We’ll be adding some more meaningful functionality in the next round of development for this plugin. Your post will definitely be a big topic of discussion. I can’t promise that it will happen as fast as you’d probably like. We’re really mega-swamped.

One final point: to be fair about the real-estate hogness, the yellow portion of the application display is only available to the user him or herself, not to the people viewing their profiles.

And in the interests of transparency, I will be doing a blog post later this week — and every week until we get this application more fully developed — listing each of the tips we selected.

I swear to God we’re not trying to be command and control, we’re just busy, busy little beavers with too much wood to chew.