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 ...

When I last (and first) wrote about App.net — an ad-free, developer-friendly, would-be Twitter competitor — I was wondering whether it would meet its goal of raising $500,000 via a Kickstarter-esque ...

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Only two months after Dalton Caldwell successfully crowd sourced more than $800,000 in funding for App.net, a real-time messaging API, the fledging platform can already boast a small but growing ...

App.net, the ambitious, year-old project to built a social platform, has released a new feature that it hopes will be the first killer app that helps it gain serious mainstream traction. Broadcasts is ...

I haven’t spent a whole lot of time at App.net lately, but I still admire the basic idea. Conceptually, it’s a Twitter-like service, designed to let folks share quick status updates and otherwise ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Starting a new social network is a terrible idea, right? Facebook's stock debut has been the worst in history, and even Twitter's growth is slowing. The problem with this theory is ...

The upstart social network that aims to give people a paid alternative to Twitter and Facebook’s overly commercialized services is becoming cheaper today. App.net founder Dalton Caldwell has announced ...

App.net, the ad-free social network founded by Dalton Caldwell, celebrates its first birthday today and the quest to build a better, more encompassing social network than what’s already out there ...

Before the great gold rush of venture capital and public offerings, there was an idea that the Internet should not just change the world, but actively make it a better place. Profit and empowerment, ...

On March 14, social network App.net will be deleting all user data, more than two years after active development on the platform ceased. In May 2014, App.net co-founders Dalton Caldwell and Bryan Berg ...

Can you imagine a service like Twitter without advertising, spammers and URL shorteners? Without clunky official clients, and without hostility towards the third-party ecosystem? The 12 strong team at ...