Too Many Magazine Apps Are Still Walled Gardens http://gigaom.com/2010/10/09/too-many-magazine-apps-are-still-walled-gardens/ the app economy marks — for now at least — a return to the good old days when the walled-garden approach to publishing was the norm, and the Internet was just some pesky chat room for nerds. Wired’s app provides a slick interface to the magazine, but no way of actually sharing it, or of linking it to related content somewhere else — not even to Wired’s own website. It’s like an interactive CD-ROM from the 1990s. (