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		<title>App.net Goes Freemium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, one of the defining aspects of App.net&#039;s upstart social network has been the fact that it costs $36 a year (or $5 a month) to belong. The price of participation keeps droves of new members from flooding in &#8212; and that may be a good thing if the main thing you care about is the quality of the conversation, since people who pay up are more likely to be thoughtful, fully-engaged members of the community. Now the service is introducing a free level of service. But as CEO Dalton Caldwell explains, it&#039;s not throwing the doors wide open: To get access to the App.net free tier, you must have an invite. These invites are being distributed to current App.net members on paid plans. Free tier accounts are similar to paid tier accounts, but with a few limitations. These limitations are as follows: Free tier accounts can follow a maximum of 40 users Free tier accounts have 500 MB of available file storage Free tier accounts can upload a file with a maximum size of 10 MB The services which App.net offers &#8212; a Twitter-style discussion network and online storage &#8212; have plenty of free, freely-available competitors with less restrictive policies. So anyone who uses App.net&#039;s free version will do so because they believe in its community and its philosophies, which include encouraging the creation of third-party apps (there are now over a hundred of &#039;em) and avoiding ads and other forms of monetization which bring third parties other than users into the equation. It&#039;ll be interesting to see if the free option has any fundamental impact on the service&#039;s scale and personality.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157220&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App.net, the Twitter Clone/Anti-Twitter, Does File Storage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t spent a whole lot of time at App.net lately, but I still admire the basic idea. Conceptually, it&#8217;s a Twitter-like service, designed to let folks share quick status updates and otherwise communicate in fast bursts. But instead of having an uneasy-to-antagonistic relationship with third-party clients, as Twitter seems to have, App.net&#8217;s main goal is to encourage other developers to write neat software and services that use its plumbing. App.net&#8217;s other big idea is that it relies on its users, rather than advertisers, to pay the bills. It got off the ground thanks to a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding campaign; almost six months later, it has around 30,000 members. That&#8217;s a rounding error by Twitter or Facebook standards, but everyone in App.net&#8217;s community pays $5 a month or $36 a year for the privilege of being there &#8212; a commitment which presumably explains why the service&#8217;s signal-to-noise ratio is unusually high. Now App.net is beginning to expand its ambitions. Its founder and CEO, Dalton Caldwell, told me that the service is going to give its members 10GB of cloud-based storage space for photos and other files &#8212; and will give third-party apps the hooks they need to add features that take advantage of that space. (There are already over 50 App.net clients, including more than 20 for iOS &#8212; including nicely-done offerings such as Felix, Netbot and Riposte.) The web, of course, is already rife with companies that want to give you gigabytes for pictures and other stuff, either for free or for a fee. But Caldwell explained to me that App.net&#8217;s storage will operate under the same philosophy that the rest of the service does: The files that people put there belong to them, and App.net isn&#8217;t claiming the right to use them for advertising or other purposes. That should help it avoid kerfuffles like the recent dust-up involving a certain insanely popular photo-sharing service. By giving third-party App.net apps an official data repository, Caldwell says, the company is also letting its users centralize their online storage rather than scattering<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155703&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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