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Developer-oriented Twitter alternative App.net nears funding goal
With a little over two days to go, Dalton Caldwell’s App.net, which aims to create a developer-friendly alternative to Twitter without advertising or corporate interests, is within $70,000 of its $500,000 goal. If they don’t reach it by Monday evening, the project won’t move forward — but donations (which pay for a full year of service) are starting to flow in at a faster clip, so they may pull it off. The service, inspired by a blog post Caldwell (who founded imeem, among other things) wrote criticizing Twitter’s moves to close its developer ecosystem, is online in early alpha form, in case you’re curious.

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    Developer-oriented Twitter alternative App.net nears funding goal

    With a little over two days to go, Dalton Caldwell’s App.net, which aims to create a developer-friendly alternative to Twitter without advertising or corporate interests, is within $70,000 of its $500,000 goal. If they don’t reach it by Monday evening, the project won’t move forward — but donations (which pay for a full year of service) are starting to flow in at a faster clip, so they may pull it off. The service, inspired by a blog post Caldwell (who founded imeem, among other things) wrote criticizing Twitter’s moves to close its developer ecosystem, is online in early alpha form, in case you’re curious.

    Source: join.app.net
    • August 11, 2012 (10:26 pm)
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