App.net financial backers show they're open to a paid Twitter alternative
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Is the world ready for a paid version of Twitter? Maybe so, backers have shown. Entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell’s Kickstarter-esque campaign to develop a paid alternative to the social network hit its $500,000 funding goal on Sunday, well ahead of Monday’s 11:59 PM deadline, raising questions as to what consumers really...
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App.Net Meets Fundraising Goal With More Than A Day To Go. Now What?
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App.net, the curious effort by picplz founder Dalton Caldwell to create a new social media platform, has reached its $500,000 goal via a Kickstarter-like campaign, with about a day and-a-half to spare before its deadline. “We did it,” Caldwell tweeted a few hours ago. It’s the latest step on the...
App.net Reaches Its $500k Funding Goal With 38 Hours To Spare
techcrunch.com
App.net, Dalton Caldwell’s audacious Twitter clone, just reached its $500,000 funding goal on Kickstarter with almost two days to spare. Just a few days ago, it looked unlikely that Caldwell’s user and developer supported ad-free Twitter clone would reach its funding goal. A last-minute push of new sponsors, though, just pushed App.net...
App.net reaches $500,000 funding goal with a day to spare
www.theverge.com
Dalton Caldwell's ambitious attempt at a new kind of social network has just achieved its no less daring goal of half a million US dollars in pledged funding. The requisite threshold for funding App.net was crossed some 38 hours in advance of the midnight PT deadline that its developers had...
We did it.
daltoncaldwell.com
As I write this, join.app.net just met our 500K goal, with 38 hours left. Data Export When you are logged into the App.net alpha, we provide a button which will email you a .zip file of all of your content in a structured format. If you are an alpha tester,...
Ex-Google Exec's New Venture Helps Students Launch Startups
www.businessinsider.com
With the student debt bubble passing the trillion dollar mark, more than a few would-be entrepreneurs have felt the squeeze after graduation. So many feel pressed to stave off debt, that they take the first job they can get and push their dreams aside in the process. David Girourd, an...
Android gaming console startup Ouya raises $8.6 million from Kickstarter
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On Thursday, Ouya’s Kickstarter campaign came to an end with the project having raised nearly $8.6 million from 63,416 backers. The startup is led by former IGN executive Julie Uhrman, whose goal was to build an affordable console based on the Android operating system. In an effort to gain...
This simple touchscreen device might be grandpa's next computer -- or ours
www.geekwire.com
Do your parents or grandparents really need a full-blown computer? One startup thinks the answer might be no. Seattle-based Pure Devices has launched a Kickstarter campaign in support of a new tabletop touchscreen device that streams data and applications from the cloud to a simplified user interface. The company is...
Ouya ready to revitalise open-source gaming after $8.5m fundraising haul
www.guardian.co.uk
Company hopes to buck the gaming trend by building an Android-based console designed for ease of software swappingGaming start-up Ouya hopes to stage a revolution in open-source game development for play on TV. It just scored an impressive coup in open-source fundraising.When its monthlong campaign on Kickstarter wrapped up at...
Ubooly's Lovable iPhone Toy is Not Your Average Stuffed Animal
pandodaily.com
The best part about trying out new products is when you have a “wow moment.” For example, when you connect with long lost friends on Facebook for the first time. Or when photos of your relative’s newborn baby show up on Instagram. They make the service incredibly sticky, and...
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