Techcrunch article here
This shouldn’t be a surprise…yet its interesting to me that Techcrunch devoted a full post to it. The only area where Slide should receive criticism is creating fake accounts (Adora SlideXX) to post fake reviews. Everyone whos involved in the Facebook app community clearly sees creators and networks positively commenting on their own products, and it’s transparent enough that this shouldn’t be a huge issue.
Plus, if 5 or 10 biased employee reviews can significantly sway the ratings of an app, how many unique users does that app have anyway? From my experience people don’t install apps based on reviews, but rather on what’s installed on friends’ pages and specific recommendations from people they know well. So if Mayumi Toshida or Sohyen Claire Kim post a review and one of their close friends (let’s say Donald) read and was influenced by the review, chances are that Donald had already been poked and prodded by Mayumi and Sohyen to install the app anyway.
Now on with the day…
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