scorecard
  1. Home
  2. tech
  3. Facebook misfires: Weird apps and experiments that never took off

Facebook misfires: Weird apps and experiments that never took off

Matt Rosoff,Tess Danielson   

Facebook misfires: Weird apps and experiments that never took off
Tech1 min read

Facebook

Getty Images/Justin Sullivan

Today, Facebook launched Notify, an iPhone app that sends news alerts to your phone's homescreen.

It's the latest in a long line of experiments from the company that orders employees to "Move Fast and Break Things."

Some of these experiments have been spectacularly successful - like Facebook Messenger, which took Facebook's messaging platform and broke it out into a separate mobile app back in 2011, and now has more than 700 million users.

Others, not so much...

READ MORE ARTICLES ON


Advertisement

Advertisement