Facebook slams Slide Top Friends supremacy by copying the base functionality

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Facebook slams Slide Top Friends supremacy by copying the base functionality

by Avatar	Stumble this!	July 17th 2008

Woah, i think Facebook clearly got some issues with the Top 2 Widget-App makers in facebook because it just cannot stop poking them (pun intended) in the eyes.

First the whole Slide Top Friends is a threat for Facebook Security, Then the deal with RockYou SuperWall being all full of fail (spam in this case) and must be taken down and now Facebook going back into trying to knock out Slide Top Friends by adding the base functionality to the regular Friends bar.

Of course, it can be seen as just a step in progress and part of the new profile look if it was not such a lie. why now?. i mean. yeah it is a simple thing to add the option to place what friends you want to show by default, but it is not something that should have been added back when Top Friends launched?. waiting so long just makes no sense. unless is of course on purpose.

We asked for Slide’s reaction. They were surprisingly chipper!

"Yes, we view this feature as directly competitive to a relatively small part of our Top Friends functionality," Slide’s Keith Rabois told us. "A developer on any platform must expect that their popular, but simple, features will be absorbed into platform over time."

But none of this has the salesman in Rabois down. He goes on:

You can see that Top Friends has a very large number of complex features that have a complicated back-end (Awards, Visual Personality, Music, world-class skins) — we expect those will continue to be long-term strategic advantages over other large developers and the platforms themselves

New Facebook feature makes top friends app redundant via Valleywag