<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c4113ddb-4c7d-4269-93cd-37f2cc13c0d6/E595913A-FC92-4C1B-B70D-B41C20F02A8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.pcworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.pcworld.com/img/602F8EAE-F2F4-4B3E-84E7-ADBE0FB9434E" alt="facebooklogo.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html"><H1 class="artTitle blogTitle"><A title="Facebook Apps: Fascinating and Boring at the Same Time" class="linkTitle" href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html">Facebook Apps: Fascinating and Boring at the Same Time</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html"><P>By letting anyone with a good idea and some programming chops add new functionality to its service, Facebook unleashed a truly big idea. Over the past few years, every significant Web site has become an application; if they all become platforms for third-party creativity over the next few years, we'll trace it all back to Facebook's big bang.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html"><P>And yet...</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html">Some of the panel discussion centered around a blog post by the Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher in which she <A href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/ttp://kara.allthingsd.com/20071009/the-childrens-hour-facebook-apps-are-for-toddlers-there-we-said-it/" target="_blank">mocked the current crop of Facebook apps as being stupid kid stuff</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html">But it's completely true that I've never seen a Facebook app that's more than mildly diverting.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html">Facebook platform is less than five months old--it deserves at least a little time to mature.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005723.html">And Facebook's roots as a place for college students to hang out probably encourage silly apps rather than life-changing ones.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E595913A-FC92-4C1B-B70D-B41C20F02A8E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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