Hey all, I have been developing an application for orkut , i have looked at other networks too and i know each and everyone of them have a niche of users with their own set of preferences, but orkut users and their preferences are totally out of my understanding.
Since orkut does not allow multiple invitations, and from what i understand the number of news feeds per user per day for an application is also limited (of course for better user experience), but as a developer how do you approach this ? I mean the stats in the application directory have absolutely baffled me, there are apps with hundreds of thousands of install and mere hundreds of weekly active users ? For example the current listing in app directory as of 1st September 11:03 AM GMT, 1) Ask Friends : Installs - 21633162 usage/wk - 7643 users 2) MindJolt Games : Installs 1057557 usage/wk - 771 users and so on.. I mean i cannot understand why the apps with hundreds of hours of development and refinement seem to unable to retain users ? Is something missing from the developer's who are unable to understand the requirements and fill those loop holes or is just the strictness of orkut as platform to allow more viral behavior of applications ? I once heard a successful app developer on facebook say once that for every one app user you should get at least get 1.2 more users by invitation or viral feed. They got notifications too, so every time new levels are added to game the user gets notification saying "Hey we got new stuff! check it out !" I am totally confused on how to make applications viral on network as populous as orkut and yet it's user base remains most unreachable for most developers. I would really appreciate if other developers can share their experience of developing and running apps. And may be any tips on understanding users better and reaching them. Thanks - Amit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Orkut Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to opensocial-orkut@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to opensocial-orkut+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-orkut?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---