The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits

20bits: "It boils down to this: investing most of your man-hours into Facebook at this point in time is a mistake. The potential return on that investment, a year after launch, is a fraction of what it once was. And the fact that Facebook continues to change the rules and selectively break them for their own benefit means the risk is comparatively higher.

It is better to branch out into other social networks or to piggy-back on Facebook as a means to establish your own, more independent social network. This is what the top companies like Slide, RockYou, Zynga, and SGN are doing, and what many of the independent Facebook developers I've talked with want to do."