Archive for January, 2010
This is the power of a ‘VIRAL’ app.
Jan 27th
Coming up with a truely viral app will significantly reduce the amount of time and money you have to put into promoting it. The big challenge is coming up with something thats really viral.
It never ceases to amaze me just what works and what doesn’t and the fact that there’s no guarantees. Quite often what works is very surprising indeed.
Just a few days ago we launched a slot machines application. I use the term “launched” very loosely because what I actually did was stick up a working demo, do a few wall posts and mentioned in in four or five groups (just wall posts in groups – the groups did not belong to me). I then left it because I wanted to get the new free application written, tested and launched.
So how do you think the slot machine app is performing considering its had virtually no promotion at all?
Take a look at this screen shot of the stats from facebook taken this evening…
Launched today: A 100% FREE application for Facebook!
Jan 26th
For all of you who have asked if we have trial versions or if there is a free way to get started with your own Facebook apps the answer is now YES!
You can use our new FREE app to make random event apps. That is an app that spits out a random joke, piece of advice, proverb, etc. So you could make a Fortune cookie app like this: http://apps.facebook.com/supercookies/, or maybe you’d prefer to make something that gives out interesting facts like the Wise Wizard example here.
Wise Wizard example
Get your own FREE Facebook app code here: http://netodex.com/?page_id=271
Super Prize Slots app released!
Jan 21st
We are releasing the Super Prize Slots app today. Full information including pricing can be found here:
http://netodex.com/?page_id=260
Adding a ‘Become a fan’ button to a FBML Facebook app.
Jan 21st
I’ve had a few emails asking about how to get the ‘Become a fan’ button in a FBML app. It is something that had me a little puzzled initially as there is no FMBL tag or FBJS command to do it easily.
It is not a problem adding the button if your application is an ‘Iframe’ app but I use Facebooks mark-up language quite extensively.
Thankfully the solution is actually very easy. Here is the code:
Prize Slot Machine app for Facebook.
Jan 19th
The newest addition to our family of applications is a killer. It has many viral features, a real solid incentive for people to come back time and time again and lots of monetization.
It is a slot machine game but with a couple of UNIQUE features.
Players try some free spins to get started and anyone with a zero balance gets given free spins each day. There is also incentivized invitations which give players further free spins.
What keeps people coming back is that their winnings can be turned into real prizes!
Super Prize Slots App for Facebook.
The game makes money not only from the banner ads but because extra tokens can be earned through answering surveys, taking up trial offers or they can be purchased with Paypal, SMS or credit card. The demo has been set up to work with Offerpal (the game can be set to work with CpaLead, Trial Pay or Offerpal but not Superrewards as it is a breach of their TOS to offer real goods as prizes).
100% Free web hosting (ad free) suitable for hosting small facebook apps.
Jan 9th
If you are trying to get started with Facebook apps and are trying to keep your costs down then check out this web host who will give you free hosting, ad free, with php and mysql.