Techno Clutter

I enjoyed reading this article about Google Labs in yesterday's NYT. More specifically, the article addresses what I think is a negative side effect to the advent of a barrier-less, open-source software development environment... too much clutter. The most prominent example of techno-clutter I see is the ever expanding Facebook application list.

The author summarizes his main query here:

But the question Google, Facebook, and Mozilla have not finished answering is how the power of open can be balanced with the simplicity of closed.