Aiming for the stars and not quite making it, the ambitious App.net has finally officially shut down. Its timely rise and fall comes as highly symbolic as its once rival, Twitter, continues to strugg
App.net is fairly well-known for reinventing itself. The whole point of the business, according to founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell, is to take its core API and show what can be done with that with pro
This week Facebook's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/25/facebooks-ban-bot-leaves-some-developers-baffled-and-angry/">ban-bot went berserk</a>; Github went <a target="_blank" href="http://bosti
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.app.net">App.net,</a> the social platform created in response to the ad-driven consumer social networks (<a target="_blank" href="http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twi
<a target="_blank" href="http://join.app.net">App.net</a>, the project that emerged from founder Dalton Caldwell's desire to build a social platform that wasn't driven by advertising, is adding its fi
The great thing about San Francisco is that it's a small town in size. As I was walking to the office today I walked by <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/stevestreza">Steve Streza</a> of <a
It's been a few months since App.net <a target="_blank" href="http://daltoncaldwell.com/we-did-it">launched its new social platform</a>, and the company has gotten some <a href="https://techcrunch.com
App.net, the Dalton Caldwell startup that pivoted from being essentially an About.me for apps, and towards being a paid Twitter alternative, today got a boost on the software side thanks to the introd
<a target="_blank" href="http://join.app.net">App.net</a> just <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.app.net/blog/2012/10/01/app-net-pricing-changes/">announced</a> some price changes to its Twitter-li
After <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/12/app-net-reaches-its-500k-funding-goal-with-38-hours-to-spare/">raising $500,000</a> to create an ad-free social platform for developers six weeks ago,
Back in July, Dalton Caldwell (of imeem and picplz fame) <a target="_blank" href="http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal">announced an "audacious"</a> goal: To create a better, developer-and-
With Thursday's Twitter <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/twitter-gives-developers-6-months-to-properly-display-tweet-use-new-authentication-and-rate-limts/">API</a> <a href="https://techcrun
Do you have $50? Do you trust strangers with it? Do you like paying for evanescent access to a service you may never use? Then <s><a target="_blank" href="https://join.app.net">App.net</a></s> <a targ
<a target="_blank" href="http://App.net">App.net</a>, Dalton Caldwell's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/13/app-net-dalton-caldwell-twitter-feed/">audacious</a> Twitter clone, just <a target="_
In a bit of fallout from Dalton Caldwell's decision to refocus his company <a target="_blank" href="http://www.app.net">App.net </a>on building a real-time social platform, as well his subsequent <a t