Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

I guess its pretty common to get disconnected with what has been happening with the countless apps that Facebook has. It appears that one such app; Lexicon has fallen prey to this negligence and all support from Facebook has ceased. I just wonder why Facebook has done so given that it continues to publish data via Memology, whereas Lexicon hasn’t seen any update since July last year.

The lack of discussion around the tool shows clearly that it wasn’t being used at all by its users, which is also the reason why Facebook hasn’t actually reported on any development. The tool itself wasn’t that great of a use and its absence shouldn’t really bother anyone around, but it was different when it was launched, providing useful insight on stats and trends on the social network. The purpose was obvious, Facebook needed to analyze the data that users shares, including wall posts and other that they made available for public. The result provided popularity of the words or phrases you searched for, pretty much like Google Trends.

While the graph doesn’t show anything after July 1st 2008, there has been no notable activity on the tool for almost a month. What’s surprising is that Facebook had talked about releasing its new version of Lexicon back in September. But it has been long since then and no further reports have rolled out regarding it anywhere. I guess it’s been out and done with, it might very well disappear from Facebook soon enough. By the way how many of you actually used the tool and found it useful?