Facebook's launch of their new platform has been the hot story of Silicon Valley for nearly a week now. An initial rollout of 80 apps on an open platform created a wave of buzz and adoption that has been impressive to behold. But the hot story hasn't been just about Facebook. It's been about
Jeff Jarvis' teenage son Jake creating a last.fm app that garnered over 15,000 users. And most notably, it's been about
iLike's astonishing rise to over 750K users in less than a week.
Are stories like this one on VentureBeat -- all about iLike, and not about Facebook -- the reason that, with the rollout of their new "most recent" and "most popular" functionality for finding apps:
![facebook apps detail](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uPZHGhF6lu1QGz3hw0iCMSvxSQCCo7almBy8yo4fpt4fQx9LvaUUYYxnSUskVozRoYPM-K7Rj9-Br5_UTKs0J_bMGzZgMsYjrWGTDGJU60sTmjjFho6qMqVn7dAhSY=s0-d)
Facebook appears to have hidden the number of users for a particular app? I can still see the friends, I can still see the reviews, but I can no longer see the number of users:
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Whassup? Hey, Facebook! Doesn't open mean open?
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