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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the popularity of crowdfunding grows ever larger, an interesting new trend has started popping up: developers, curious if a new feature is worth adding to their products, are asking interested ...

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 ...

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 ...

“What I’ve been wracking my brain on is what we need for this company to reach its full potential — to have a really crisp value proposition for normals,” says Caldwell. He arrived at Broadcast, which ...