Eric Odom

Perhaps they are.
I guess it all depends on how you view it, but from the direction I’m looking, some of these new Facebook apps do nothing for the Facebook experience itself. In fact, all they do is market an outside product or service.
Take the Free Unmetered Host application for example. The “application” is explained like

I’ve ignored this fight between Facebook and MoveOn for too long.

My earlier post requesting a Digg Widget hit the front page of Digg and slammed me with 7,000 visits today. The extra chunk of visits was nice, but the real bonus was the Digg Widgets that came with it.
The first one to come along was Mike’s version in the form of a Wordpress Plugin.
From the [...]

Yes, Digg traffic sucks for revenue compared to visits from Google. I know, I know… this is common knowledge for most. But, it’s still interesting none the less.
Chitika’s blog has a great post up about a stat finding hunt they recently went on related to the Digg traffic vs. Google traffic debate.

Last night I had some free time to relax and take a break from the daily grind. Well, I didn’t really *have* time, but I made time. While most people kick back and watch the tube for relaxation, I surf the web with no real goals. So I decided to spend a little time on [...]

YouTube, Digg, Netscape, and many other social networking sites have opened up to the political scene and traffic has increased to ALL of them because of it. Mixing politics with the social realm of the internet was a winner long before it came about. It was only a matter of time before these social giants [...]

The guys over at Eventful had a booth set up across the isle from ours at CPAC so I got a few chances to talk with them about the Web 2.0, social networking style project. After getting to know the system and what it is that it does, I put them on my top ten [...]

As a campaign consultant and internet activist I can attest to the direction political campaigns are heading and a LOT of it is shifting to the Internet. Political campaigns such as John McCain’s (by the way I met with his blogger, Patrick Hynes, in DC last week and he admitted that the McCain website was [...]