Category: Facebook

Breaking: Top Friends! copy may kill Max Levchin

Max is probably the business person I respect most in the world. I just saw that a copy of Top Friends was released and in a short amount of time has 600,000 users at 37% daily activity. Screen shot below:


Lawrence Lee is the creator

vs


Slide’s version

How do you think Slide feels? Is this aggressive business skills or just crap? Seems like crap to me. Why couldn’t Facebook contacted Slide prior to taking them down and allowing a complete knock-off copy them? I guess this is similar to the Friends-for-Sale vs. Owned! argument as well. Thoughts?

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7 Responses to “Breaking: Top Friends! copy may kill Max Levchin”

  • Devin Reams
    July 3rd, 2008
    9:54 am

    Facebook is so evil. They probably don’t even realize they’re stepping on toes half the time. That’s the beauty of ignorance.

  • Ben Bleikamp
    July 3rd, 2008
    12:49 pm

    Both apps are useless in the big scheme of things, so who cares?

  • noah
    July 3rd, 2008
    12:55 pm

    Ben,

    Brb while I remove you from my top friends:) i know it’s pointless. I guess the idea is that someone copied their copy of myspace and is now taking over. Seems like a cluster-fuck…

  • Ben Bleikamp
    July 3rd, 2008
    1:00 pm

    I agree it sucks for Max and Slide, but their application being copied is to be expected. The fact that Facebook helped spur its popularity just sucks more.

    It just shows how fickle most users are – if they’re willing to move from Friendster to MySpace to Facebook, they are certainly willing to drop and add applications within a single social network. There is no loyalty to Slide or RockYou or any other “top” application maker – they just got there first.

  • Nicole Price
    July 3rd, 2008
    9:45 pm

    I too believe that notice ought to be given before taking any drastic action, so Facebook is probably in error.

  • Nicole Price
    July 3rd, 2008
    9:46 pm

    By the way what a fascinating word ‘cluster-fuck’, would you explain please?

  • Eva White
    July 14th, 2008
    11:27 pm

    I wonder what they are getting so uptight about? Just how bad can this so called “violation” be? Have they given any details?

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