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	<title>Comments on: Facebook&#8217;s platform issues: Less developer activity, slower app growth</title>
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		<title>By: SGN, on quest for social gaming revenue, raises $15 million &#187; VentureBeat</title>
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		<dc:creator>SGN, on quest for social gaming revenue, raises $15 million &#187; VentureBeat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] As we&#8217;ve written, the large and increasingly well-funded companies including Slide, RockYou, Zynga and now SGN increasingly have the means to cross-promote their own apps and allied apps &#8212; and buy apps &#8212; which means that its getting harder for smaller, less experienced, less-funded developers to get users and create businesses on Facebook. This may have already contributed to the drop-off in application growth and developer activity on Fa.... [...]</description>
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		<title>By: The State of the Platform: Update &#124; 20bits</title>
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		<dc:creator>The State of the Platform: Update &#124; 20bits</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Platform has been spreading through the blogosphere like a game of telephone. Lots of people have chimed in with their own [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Facebook&#8217;s stricter app regulations are a good thing! &#171; Life at Playfish</title>
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		<dc:creator>Facebook&#8217;s stricter app regulations are a good thing! &#171; Life at Playfish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] VentureBeat and The Equity Kicker suggest that Facebook’s stricter regulation of applications may be part of [...]</description>
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