Remember App.net? Well, if you do, you belong to a tiny group of people who haven’t completely forgotten the once-promising social networking and micro-blogging app. App.net or ADN was planned as a social network for applications – think Twitter, but without any ads. It was a platform developed to balance profit and empowerment. It was a brilliant, noble idea that didn’t quite pan out the way it was intended to. What went wrong? Let’s figure out.