| RavenBlog |
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| Comments on Tuesday 11 August 2009: |
| I've just 'finished' making a Facebook application, but it needs a small critical mass of players for the game to really make sense. If you have a Facebook account, play Pick A Winner! It's similar to "Family Feud" or "Family Fortunes" depending where you live, only instead of a survey being done in advance, there is one question per day, and you score points at the end of the day based on how many people shared your answer (and how many didn't). [01:12] |
| Digi |
| You might think about having it request a status update with an advert for the game. There're provisions in the Facebook API for this, I think. A notification as well. It's funny, I've just been getting into this myself. While racking my brains for ideas, I briefly considered maybe stealing Warlocks for an application, seeing as it's perfect for playing out across people's walls, and thus generating viral publicity. I'm not going to do it, but you could, with the added advantage of being able to merge games.ravenblack.net players with the Facebook users for a running start. So what's the idea? Get Pick A Winner popular, and then stuff it with ads? Who's ads will you host? I hear adsense is a pain to implement, and technically a TOS violation, but lots of people do it anyway. |
| RavenBlack |
| Not stuff it with ads but I was intending adsense ads, yeah. I don't think it is a ToS violation, because the page is in a iframe - surely Google can't complain if my page with their ad on it gets iframed on someone else's site. It does do a daily notification. I'm not sure about a status update, but I was intending to have trophies for various stuff which will probably get people to post about it more. |
| Digi |
| Yeah, I forgot that there was such a thing as "ad stuffing". I meant "stuff" like "place some". The iFramyness is exactly the problem they have with it, apparently. It makes sense in some ways, they don't want the page they crawl and the page the ads are being displayed from to be different. There are other companies which don't mind, and some which make the ads seem relevant to the user based on Facebook info. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=68181323070&ref=mf A semi-bug: When clicking the name of a leader board member, their profile is opened inside the iFrame, rather than poping out. |
| RavenBlack |
| Yeah, I'm going to change the way names are displayed and linked since Facebook's own fill-the-name-in object seems to give up on filling the name in after a few on one page, and also links them without a target. Means I'll need to put names into my database, annoyingly. I've seen that page about google ads in Facebook, the guy isn't really stating the true case (he doesn't work for Google after all). Google don't like you using iframes *just* to display ads. But in this case the iframe has the bulk of the content the ad will be sharing the page with. They don't mind their ads being displayed inside the main frame on a frames-based page, which is essentially what will be happening. |
| Digi |
| Hmm, I wonder if I could get someone in trouble by iFraming their adsense displaying page, embedded in a page that says "Hi, I'm <name of victim>! please click my ads. I have incentives!" How come you never blogged the completion of of RoboBeasts? |
| RavenBlack |
| I think I just advertised that to Vampires, and then it did poorly enough that I never wanted to speak of it again. |