beckr.org | Christian Becker » Facebook Application http://beckr.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:14:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Animated Fortunes on Facebook http://beckr.org/2007/10/11/animated-fortunes-on-facebook/ http://beckr.org/2007/10/11/animated-fortunes-on-facebook/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:23:47 +0000 cbecker http://beckr.org/2007/10/11/animated-fortunes-on-facebook/ Seemingly, a lot of money can be made with rather useless Facebook applications these days. So I set out to see what it would take to attain exponential growth rates and did a Flash port of a Fortune Cookie site I wrote in JavaScript back in 2003. The application did grow exponentially in the first days, but now its growth is rather linear with 8,300 users as of today, and 100 new users per day. Altura Ventures, who invests in Facebook applications, estimates that this is worth $2,400 already. Can you believe it?
Its home on Facebook is here, and here’s a preview:

Update: Currently broken due to the highest-voted bug on Facebook.

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