I'll be honest in saying that while I kind of understand what app.net does, I really think they need to work on their messaging. It's a social graph distributed storage service, kinda, but provided in some way more private than ad based social networks like facebook or google plus?

I'm pretty Internet savvy, have spent most of my life building large web sites, and outside of reading articles about app.net every once in awhile (which I forget and then end up with the half-informed summarized memory above) I really can't figure out WHY I should be using it as a user. I'm sure part of it is them just not having a AAA app yet that just does something awesome, but I do wish they'd work a bit on their homepage so that all of it was more clear at first look.

Just some non-specific advice from an Internet traveler. If it's tough for me to figure out, it's likely tough for someone with much less experience. Right now, all I understand are your core values (which of course I agree with) and have trouble seeing how I actually use the service.

Thanks ahead to the people I'm sure that will comment on this and explain it a bit better, my general point is that I should be able to figure it all out quickly on one page.

Good luck duders! It's a product I'm generally curious about but never have enough time to do serious investigating on.