Online Marketplace for Facebook Apps Launches
Posted by Nick O'Neill on July 19th, 2007 10:55 AM
A new marketplace for widgets and applications has just launched. WebAppSale is the one stop shop for posting your widget or application for sale. Currently there are only 2 widgets posted on the site. Will this site work? Hard to say but I doubt it. The main reason that I don’t think this will work is that any application or widget that grows a large user base is going to be acquired by a larger company without them posting it for sale. The amazing thing about the new widget environment is that within a matter of weeks of launching an application on Facebook you can tell whether or not you have any shot of success. Previously, web companies would spend months or years developing an application only to have it fail to gain any traction. Thanks to the viral component of Facebook, your application will make or break it within a matter of days or weeks. You can then call it quits or move right on to the next thing. It’s a hit or miss environment. Conversely, if you want to set up hundreds of applications that only have a couple hundred users, you could package all of your applications and sell them as a whole. I am fairly skeptical about this new site. I think the market is a self-selecting one and any application that gains a solid user base will start receiving offers whether or not they publicly announce their application for sale. What do you think?
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