Comments on: Think App.net is just a Twitter clone? Then you’re missing the point

By: tabTwo

tabTwo — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:53:12 +0000

Another walled garden and you call that infrastructure? Really?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:32:31 +0000

Still waiting to see where groov.es ends up in this. Bring pubsub home was something they were trying to get support for years ago… I liked his bit about following your appliances.

By: Jay Benfield

Jay Benfield — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:48:46 +0000

I stumbled upon this a little late, but this is a nice article nonetheless. I am a longtime Twitter user who joined App.net a little over a month ago. Overall, I have been very happy with App.net and believe they have a bright future.

If anyone is interested in my experience with App.net so far, I wrote a blog post earlier this week on the topic: http://blog.ghostbilt.com/my-thoughts-on-adn/

By: welcome

welcome — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:32:13 +0000

App.net is a rip off what stealing money. Never saw such a big bullshit in my life!

By: Jesse J

Jesse J — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:50:02 +0000

Good article, and I think App.net has potential. It’s not uncommon to read about a future where your fridge tells you when you need to buy milk, and your car drives you to work.

There’s no protocol for these communications yet, and what gave Twitter such a boost to it’s following was the ability to connect to mobile devices due to it’s 140-character-or-less model — SMS messages could carry tweets, and an army of mobile-enabled users could effectively now organize in ways never before possible.

Twitter’s power comes from it’s ability to connect users, and the media probably wouldn’t have picked up on it if it were a closed system, like facebook is..

App.net could not have survived without following Twitter’s API changes. Twitter’s changes will affect the way the world communicates, but where the communication is necessary, other services will surface, App.net or otherwise. There’s far too much good that came out of ‘The Twitter Experiment’ that we’ll see wrapped into the furthering of integrating information into our every-day lives.

Good article.

- Something facebook hadn’t really gotten into

By: myviewr

myviewr — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:10:08 +0000

can’t you get sued for creating for clone website

By: Geoff Domoracki

Geoff Domoracki — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:50:54 +0000

Lets make a clear differentiation: some communication protocols like email and RSS let you create, update, retrieve (for free) on an open network (the entire web) no matter what server you are publishing from. A purely paid protocol is not a protocol at all.

If App.net decides to become free and decentralized like other productive protocols I can see a future. If it decides to be a reactionary paid communication portal then it will be a short-lived reaction to some opportunities left by Twitter and Facebook.

By: Lola J. Lee Beno

Lola J. Lee Beno — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:01:18 +0000

This is why I think the jury is still out. You have to give a compelling reason for mainstream users who are concerned with pinching their pennies in this economic situation where gas prices are rising, the jobless rate is rising, and people are face with being stuck in part-time job for years.

By: Darren Bounds

Darren Bounds — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:04:44 +0000

Today if someone suggested re-architecting email communication with a ‘central messaging bus’, assuming you understood what they were talking about, you’d laugh in their face. Those of course who were around back then, remember that is exactly what AOL and CompuServ provided when it came to email. Each individual, proprietary silos with access to and control over each and every message that was sent through it.

The along came SMTP and modern day email was born, open (standards), distributed, interoperable. The Internet itself was the bus and SMTP was the protocol. No single party owned any one component and if you didn’t like features, aesthetic, name or anything else about one, you could transition over to another, all without sacrificing connectivity with your contacts.

This is what we need today, not a closed system with a new business model.

The next evolution of social network should abandon this whole notion of “central” and embrace a a social web where services compete for user attention based on their features (e.g. GMail) and unique value prop, not which service has the best access to your social graph.

Missing the point? No, I couldn’t care less about building a new Twitter. What I care about is pushing the web forward. App.net won’t do that.

By: Bryan Bondurant

Bryan Bondurant — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:15:54 +0000

It would be nice if there were a free trial period to test the waters. I have no idea if these guys are serious or just a bit nutty standing on the street corner asking for fifty bucks. The vimeo clip is interesting but not compelling.