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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

App.net (ADN) is a relatively new online service that many people think of as just an alternative to Twitter: a place to post short messages and to read the messages of people you follow. But App.net ...

Ready for a better Twitter? Dalton Caldwell, a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, is trying to build just that. App.net looks a lot like the original with a few key differences. The service features ...

Can you ever have enough microblogging services? Probably. But the newest popular entrant into the field that Twitter made popular, App.net, rose up in large part as a response to the increasingly ...