DISQUS

I feel the same way in terms of one game grabbing my attention at any given time. I would love to play them all but we only have so much time to "waste". My previous game of choice was Friends For Sale but in the last few weeks I have also switched over to Mouse Hunt. It's so fun and so easy to play and progress. I feel as my friends have also made the same switch, we are all playing Mouse Hunt now when previously we were buying each other on FFS. I finally tried Speed Racing today which was interesting but I don't think it will pull me from the hunt. Back to killing mice!

AOL has tried to leverage AIM to build a social network called AIM Pages. Considering most people have not heard of it, means they not done a good job in terms of integrating it into AIM itself. Plus last update to their blog was in September 2007 so the project made be abandoned at this point.

Everyone is talking about more engaging applications but what does that really mean? Out of 15,000+ apps, there not any applications that engage you? What about Flixster or iLike or Scrabulous?

To me those are all engaging applications that are some not some lame quiz or what kind of ... are you or throwing sheep. Those engaging apps need to be surfaced better. Just like web sites, there is a few good mixed in with alot of bad.

I think there some developers creating interesting applications that can benefit from being within a social network and can add to a user's experience within a social network. (disclousure: I work for company that has developed a social app)

My main concern is that those one off apps don't ruin it for everyone else by turning users away from applications in general.