Back at the beginning of June I covered the Free Gifts application. Since then, the application has continued to grow and now has around 350,000 active daily users and over 3.5 million users in total. Many people thought that the Free Gifts application would be banned by Facebook but Facebook has instead embraced the application. Even Facebook employees that I’ve seen speak frequently reference the free gifts application. Below is a video of Zack Allia talking about his experience developing and scaling his application at Community Next.
Zack Allia of Free Gifts at Community Next
Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 12th, 2007 3:52 PM


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[...] Nick O’Neill wrote a fantastic post today on “Zack Allia of Free Gifts at Community Next”Here’s ONLY a quick extractBack at the beginning of June I covered the Free Gifts application. Since then, the application has continued to grow and now has around 350000 active daily users and over 3.5 million users in total. Many people thought that the Free … [...]
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