Facebook’s app ecosystem is still missing a piece of the puzzle This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

Facebook needs an effective marketplace for app promotion and monetization.

At its f8 developer conference last September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a grand vision of a new class of lifestyle apps enabled by Facebook’s technology platform. Last week, at a subdued event that attracted far less media coverage, Facebook sketched out its progress and showed some 60 apps. Facebook’s apps ecosystem is showing positive signs of evolving, but it still lacks an effective marketplace for app promotion and monetization. Such a marketplace would reinforce [...]

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