If the goal is to build a paid for blogging platform, it seems to me that App.net is doing all of the right things (or perhaps the goal is paid for live chat rooms, since they also seem able to support that). The infrastructure so far seems impressive, and Dalton has been transparent and highly communicative about much of what App.net is doing.<p>The only thing missing from all of this is for someone like Dalton to actually say "We are building a paid blogging platform." When App.net was initially described, it sounded like "This will be just like Twitter, but you will pay for it." And that never made sense.<p>It seems to me they now have the infrastructure to support several business models that people might actually pay for (blogs, private chat rooms, etc) but if anyone at App.net has said what the intended business model is, then I missed the announcement.
Can someone clarify this for me. It seems like they are openly publishing to a number of formats, which presumably(?) don't require an app.net account to access. Does this mean that they are defacto turning it in to a pay to publish (rather than pay to subscribe) platform?