On Tuesday night, Los Angeles Times blog noted that a Facebook Soundbite guru of gambling "Gareth Davis GamesBeat place in the conference in San Francisco that the company is" looking "offering a virtual currency for developers. The industry of virtual goods, the article notes, is a giant $ 1.5 million.
This would mean that games and other applications with a presence in Facebook could use universal "Facebook currency" that would not only be interoperable applications, but Facebook could line their pockets with more cash. But Davis language ( "looking") is as ambiguous as it gets, so my advice to potential developers would be excited "does not hold your breath."
What this reminds me of the once-hyped "Facebook Wallet." Remember that? A few months after the social network launched its developer platform in May 2007, began to spread the word that also works as a PayPal payment system. Executives hinted at the conference panels. In a high-profile move, Facebook hired Benjamin Ling, the Google engineer who was instrumental in developing the Google Checkout product. Ling but left after less than a year in the company and returned to Google. Began to spread rumors that Facebook has scrapped the plan entirely.
Once home, I spoke with earlier this month in the virtual currency wallet Facebook said that it was never so close to success, as some seem to think there was. "It's not like that Ditch, which is never off the ground," the source said, adding that some developers are wary of the idea first, because of the extra work with little obvious benefit of not "easier".
I'd assume would be similar to a Facebook for its own currency. He had a lot of development for the developers of a product that does not necessarily want. However, one back: Facebook has offered its own virtual property in the form of "Facebook gifts that members can buy each other for the profiles, since 2007. Late last year, Facebook has changed the payment system for Facebook Gifts U.S. $ a "credits", making it easier for the site to load more or less than their previous standard $ 1 for virtual items.
Obviously, one should be very easy for Facebook to make these funds available to developers. Facebook of the road map, but in these days has shown that its focus is on the Facebook Connect platform component of the strengthening of functions of the applications for incorporável. It is also unclear whether the developers who want to alter products ripe for a new institute's virtual currency - or if we all had to be interoperable with competitors.
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