Does Facebook Platform Make Great Applications Impossible?

Alexander J. Kates sure thinks so. His post detailing why the only successful applications on Facebook are utterly inane some of the fundamental tensions between platform owners and developers that Mitch Kapor talked about at Community Next.

It’s certainly worth some serious thought. Can anyone give me an example of a great Facebook application that has been absorbed by the entity as it were?

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