Myspace/Facebook App Platforms & Total Installs(Myspace/Facebook应用平台和总安装数)
Ben Lorica
2008/05/19
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Within a few months, Myspace has quietly built an application platform with over twelve hundred applications. I previously posted a graph for Facebook app categories, in which I compared the categories using the number of active users. Unlike the older Facebook platform, Myspace only provides the number of installs: At a comparable stage, roughly four months after launch, Facebook already had 4,300 applications. On the other hand, developers should know that the most popular Facebook applications attract a higher share of installs and active usage. After four months, the top 10% (respectively 20%) most installed Facebook apps accounted for 97% (respectively 99%) of all installs. The corresponding numbers for Myspace are 91% and 96% respectively. Economists sometimes use the Lorenz Curve to visualize and measure inequality. In both application platforms, the top applications account for most of the installs, with the Myspace platform being slightly less unequal: [Note: When I drew the preceding curves, I sorted from the most to the least installed applications.] One year after launching their platform, there are now more than 24 thousand Facebook applications! With more than 24K applications, the top 10 & 20 percent Facebook applications still have roughly the same share of total installs. For more on the Facebook and Myspace platforms, Roger Magoulas of O'Reilly Research will present some of our most recent findings at the upcoming Graphing Social Patterns conference. |
几个月之内Myspace已经悄悄建立了一个应用平台，还有1200多个应用。我以前曾发布过一个Facebook应用的分类图表，比较了各类别活跃用户数。和Facebook不同Myspace只提供了安装数： Facebook是几个月之后才开始提供活跃使用数字的，我希望Myspace也能做到这一点。 在一个可比阶段，大概发布后四个月，Facebook有4300个应用。另一方面，开发人员应该了解到最流行的一些应用在安装数和活跃使用数字上占了最高的份额。四个月之后，10%的Facebook应用占了97%的安装，20%的应用则要占到99%的安装。Myspace对应的数字是91%和96%。经济学家用Lorenz曲线来可视化和度量不平等性。在这两个平台上顶级应用占据了大部分的安装数，Myspace上不平等性稍小一些。 （注意：我画上面曲线的时候将应用从最多到最少排序。）平台发布一年之后Facebook上有24000多应用。顶端的10%和20%Facebook应用占的安装比例大致相同。 关于Facebook和Myspace平台，O'Reilly Research的Roger Magoulas将会在Graphing Social Patterns conference上给出更多我们的最新发现。 |
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