I don't think I'd read this essay before. Interesting quote: "We expected the most common proposal to be for multiplayer games. We were not far off: this was t

I don't think I'd read this essay before. Interesting quote: "We expected the most common proposal to be for multiplayer games. We were not far off: this was the second most common. The most common was some combination of a blog, a calendar, a dating site, and Friendster. Maybe there is some new killer app to be discovered here, but it seems perverse to go poking around in this fog when there are valuable, unsolved problems lying about in the open for anyone to see." It sounds like a lot of people were trying to make Facebook in 2005.