Comment "Visitor" to Apps.gov (Score 1) 138
So, I was in DC last week at an event where all of the administration poobahs spoke and the big topics were data.gov and cloud services. When Apps.gov was announced, I assumed like other sites that it would have a citizen component to it. So, I wandered over and registered as a "visitor" (should have read the fine print on the page footer about only for federal employees / agencies part).
Anyhow, I put a "free" social media app or two in my cart, just to see how the gub'ment would handle check-out (would I get a coupon to visit my Congressman? maybe an invitation to donate $3 to next federal election? etc.). Instead, I got a much more noticeable "reminder" message that Apps.gov is for federales, but that if I had any questions as a "visitor", they had assigned me a specific person in the bureaucracy with whom to follow-up. Pretty interesting.
If you spend any time on the site (unregistered or otherwise), it is also interesting to see what social apps they chose or didn't (facebook yes, twitter no?). And you can definitely get a sense of their vendor bias: salesforce.com and google dominate.