{"id":5905,"date":"2012-09-03T01:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T06:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2012-09-03T02:03:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T07:03:15","slug":"app-nets-crowdfunders-taken-for-a-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5905","title":{"rendered":"App.net’s crowdfunders: Taken for a ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"

App.net currently embodies a hierarchical vision, where a single top-level provider delivers the infrastructure everyone shares. This is quite unlike StatusNet, which embodies a federated vision of social data networking. If you want to run your own private instance of StatusNet you can — it’s open source, after all. Then if you want to join up with the rest of the planet, you can federate with other instances, creating a meshed data bus with many connection pathways. By contrast, App.net appears to want to maintain a commercial control point on the market it hopes to create.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via App.net’s crowdfunders: Taken for a ride? | Open Source Software – InfoWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what does App.net have going for it? A proof-of-concept Twitter clone, for sure. A torrent of great ideas, certainly. And $500,000 that’s been given as a gift? Definitely. But its main asset is 10,000 people who want an open infrastructure for digital CB enough to risk $50 to see if it works out. That initial user base is worth at least as much as the money and will be a hard taskmaster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there’s this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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