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Respect Facebook Apps…

October 30th, 2007

I’m fully aware of all the lame apps around, but creating a good app is a lot of work. My entire team definitely underestimated the amount of time required to develop an app that is useful to users. Our app is aimed at the car enthusiast community, therefore we’ve performed some “field” research to get feedback on what kind of features they would find useful. Obviously, we had our own ideas previous to the research, but the feedback was great. We got a lot of awesome suggestions(along with some entertaining ones). If you are developing an app for a specific community, I highly recommend speaking directly with people who will likely be using your app to get great ideas. Obviously, user comments on the app are effective, but it is definitely a different type of feedback than feedback “in the wild,” or sites where your users congregate en masse.

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WordPress Database Explosion

October 27th, 2007

Despite my love for WordPress, I am apparently not immune to technological misfortunte. The WordPress database exploded 3 weeks ago, and school has been so intense that I haven’t had a chance to debug it. Its up and running and in good shape now. Activity will resume, and an update on our Facebook app is due tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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