Clearly one of the biggest challenges of App.net will be keeping the hyperbole under control. ;) This is, I suspect, a drawback of the Kickstarter mode of oper

Clearly one of the biggest challenges of App.net will be keeping the hyperbole under control. ;) This is, I suspect, a drawback of the Kickstarter mode of operation: The momentum cycle is out of step with reality. When you're fundraising you have to build the excitement to a big wave - a wave which, judging by this post, is still building in many people's fertile imaginations. The excitement is important: It focuses people and gets them talking and causes them to want to keep the party going. And if you're, say, Apple, you strive to kick off the excitement at a time when you can feed the ensuing wave of interest with a steady stream of finished, profitable products that people can buy and use and show to their friends. But with these Kickstarter-y projects the product is never finished when the hype peaks, so there's inevitably going to be a crash of excitement during the long doldrum where nothing seems to be happening. In fact, what's happening is that the builders are doing the work that you've paid them to do, but the creation of actual working product is so much less exciting than the brainstorming phase. Especially when the product is experimental. But that's how this works, so it is essential to calm down. It's tinkering time, people! Whiteboards and screwdrivers! The Age of Aquarius was not built in a week.