Interesting. In my experience Hi5 is the worst. Both Orkut and Facebook are good. Never tried with myspace or ning though. Hi5 approved my app after long struggle. Those guys keep rejecting my app with the message "you display ads in the profile" whereas I didn't have ads even in the canvas view. Anyway, I had to jump many hoops to get it approved. Once it was approved, the app was not even shown in the "Most recent" category. The app was hidden in some corner, users could never find it. According to Hi5 product manager, they have bug in showing the apps in "Most recent". Could be a simple bug, but they take months to fix the "simple" bug.
Why Hi5 approves the apps in short time? Because they don't get many apps in the first place compared to the number of apps requests in Orkut. I see many active users in Orkut compared to Hi5. Facebook is lot better if your focus is only on U.S. market. If you develop something for Indian audience, Orkut is the best. On Aug 20, 12:28 pm, Corners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created applications for Orkut, Facebook, Hi5, MySpace and Ning > so far. Will be doing a friendster and bebo next week. > > Facebook and Hi5 are the most application creator friendly platforms. > Amongst the open-social platforms, Hi5 is most professional. They have > a fixed set of guidelines. If your app follows these guidelines, it is > approved within a day sometimes. If not, you are promptly notified. > MySpace is highly buggy (still) - if you work around these bugs, they > are quite professional in responding and approving applications. > > Orkut is the most frustrating amongst these platforms. They take > almost a week to inform you the reason why your app cannot be > approved. For some of my apps, there has been no response even after 3 > weeks of submitting the application. Sometimes the response borders on > the ludicrous trying to advise on what content is good for your > applcication. > > I hope the orkut team is reading this and will ensure a professional > process of application approval. A bad application will be rejected by > the users, so Orkut does not have to work extra hard trying to > prejudge whether the app is good or bad. I guess a simple set of > guidelines and ensuring that there is no objectionable content is what > orkut should focus on. > > my 2 cents. > Sanjeev --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
