Kottke: Facebook is the new AOL

"As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else ... It's called the internet..."

Hooray, I'm glad people are waking up to the lunacy of Facebook apps and other walled gardens like it. The king has no clothes!

I will admit I tried making a FB app myself, but gave up in frustration when I realized how limited my app would be.

dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413