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Huh? I'm actually more confused. Doesn't Facebook-connect (and FB apps in general) effectively give you the ability to buy/rent their network effect already? T

• benaiah 13y ago
  Yes, but neither Twitter and Facebook are in the "social provider" business - they're in the ad business. This is why they've had so much friction with their 3rd-party developer ecosystem. Dalton wants App.net to be a social utility - providing ownership of social data to the user for a price. There are no ads, so there's no motivation to screw over developers. That's the idea, at least.
• terhechte 13y ago
  Facebook is picky about which app is allowed to use your data. Twitter, for example, is not allowed to use it anymore. So when you develop an app, just relying on facebook could lead to a situation where you suddenly don't have access to your friends anymore (from within that app). Most apps also have their own user databases and just use facebook data for import. With app.net that's the one point where your user data would be saved.