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Facebook Messenger Platform
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#72Everyone seems to be jumping on the bots bandwagon - Microsoft, Facebook, Slack etc. Do we really think this kind of text-based interaction is the future?
Granted, it's an interface practically everyone knows how to use, but I believe it could result in rather long conversations (what are the available commands/questions?) to actually get something a little more complex done.
Our messaging startup is heading in the opposite direction: we offer fully functional tools and games that can be instantly used by groups of people. We also offer a platform that allows developers to create these HTML5 based apps themselves. If you think this sounds interesting, have a look at https://platform.happening.im .
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#73The Twitter debacle is what really did it for me. As others have pointed out this is sharecropping through and through. You build anything meaningful on this and Facebook has you by the you-know-whats and can pull the rug out from under you at will. Thanks but no thanks.
> You build anything meaningful on this and Facebook has you by the you-know-whats and can pull the rug out from under you at will.
Is that accurate? If I build a chat-based application, why can't I build out interfaces to various services? It may not be trivial, since some will offer features that others don't, but what's the principal problem preventing me from building a chat-based application that works over Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Kik, etc. so long as they each provide an API for connecting these bots, beyond time?
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#74https://messengerplatform.fb.com/
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#75Facebook disregards your rights as a creator, user, and individual. I've read enough history to know what sharecropping looks like. Tell me how this is different than sharecropping. Why should I build something I don't control on Lord Zuckerberg's platform so I can play the startup lottery? We did this almost a decade ago. Facebook introduced their developer platform and people started giving up their freedoms. This…
Facebook is a prison. It could literary kill the internet as we know.
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Imo it's a sign of effectiveness not laziness
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#78Wouldn't it be wise for Facebook to just replace Messenger with WhatsApp and offer that as a platform?
I'm confused about this as well. Why are they choosing to compete with themselves?
Is it really competition though?
You choose A, Facebook wins. You choose B, Facebook wins.
I believe WhatsApp and FB Messenger are the two top chat networks right now (sadly), at least when looking at regional dominance. And since the value of a network to the individual is dependant on the size, AND they're locked up, they win whatever you choose.
You might loose because you chose the network with less friends, but that changes nothing in the end.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thankfully for Zuckerberg, our industry is very bad at learning from history.
"Dumb fucks."
-- Mark Zuckerberg, after receiving the personal information of thousands of people at Harvard.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
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#80I like bots and everything but I wonder if chat's popularity stems from there being a human at the other end?
The current bots trends started when silicon valley saw how successful WeChat is building a platform on top of its chat app. It has an eco that is not tied to AppStore/PlayStore. What WeChat is doing is more of building apps rather than bots on top of WeChat. They took the idea of SMS apps (e.g. SMS to vote for American Idol, SMS to top up your mobile data plan) and model it for chat. So one can basically build an Ub…
https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/750020781733477/
You can send money in messenger. Not too hard to move from P2P payments to P2B payments.