Today, the versatile web platform App.net introduces its new free tier. The free accounts will be available by invite only from a current member and will allow the following of 40 accounts and 500MB ...

If you haven’t heard of App.net yet, it’s a cloud platform that’s kind of like Twitter, except it’s ad-free, so you have to pay a monthly fee to use the social network. Starting today you can setup ...

The experimental social service eagerly hopes to attract a larger audience before early backers are asked to renew their subscriptions. Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves ...

App.net, the social network started by imeem and Picplz founder Dalton Caldwell, has made its first change to the ‘Developer Incentive Program’ that was introduced last September to reward its top ...

Twitter and Facebook, the two giants of social networking, have stepped up efforts to generate more advertising revenue to prove to investors that they can be profitable. But what if there was an ...

App.net, the project that emerged from founder Dalton Caldwell’s desire to build a social platform that wasn’t driven by advertising, is adding its first free option today. Given Caldwell’s emphasis ...

Storage and service model paves way for expanded and free tiers; “You could build a Facebook on top of this API,” says founder Dalton Caldwell Storage and service model paves way for expanded and free ...

When Dalton Caldwell first launched App.net last August, his goal was to reach 10,000 users. Now, 32,000 sign-ups later, Caldwell has begun offering free accounts on his paid, ad-free social ...

When Dalton Caldwell launched App.net (aka ADN) in August, to the naked eye it appeared to be a clone of Twitter with the twist that users had to pay for the privilege. The service has attracted ...

App.net, the social platform created in response to the ad-driven consumer social networks (specifically Twitter), just announced that it has raised $2.5 million in new funding. The announcement came ...