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 ...

The alternative and developer-friendly social network cuts all full-time staff members but plans to “continue to operate normally on an indefinite basis.” Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET ...

App.net, the ambitious, year-old project to built a social platform, has released a new feature that it hopes will be the first killer app that helps it gain serious mainstream traction. Broadcasts is ...

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 ...

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 ...