fee-based Social networking site App.net: Build a "free and open, no advertising and marketing" Xanadu Social network!

The best mode of social networking is not necessarily the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/1560.html ">facebook, Google +, Weibo, friends circle, etc., at least" fee-based social networks " App.net don't think so. App.net is a social networking site that charges users, who claim to give users a "truly better, totally ad-free, truly open" social network.

The following is the "price list" of the App.net Social network: 5 dollars a monthly/36 dollar package year/$ 100 annual fee can become a VIP user, access to API interface and app.net developer qualifications. After 500,000 dollars of seed investment in August, after 6 months of development, App.net now has 30,000 paid subscribers, most of whom are internet elites.

Overall, App.net's social networking structure is similar to Twitter's, but compared to Twitter's only 140 words, app.net can publish 256 words. App.net has added a lot of features for its "free and open features", such as user data export, organized packaging of all user comments into a zip, email, pubsubhubbub protocol support, and activitystrea.ms Atom & JSON, RSS feed output, output includes each user's timeline and arbitrary # tag content, through Webfinger binding user information. In addition, App.net is committed to supporting open source lightweight clients through internal and external coordination.

App.net's "Xanadu", an ad-free and open social network, does attract a bunch of fans, and in order to attract more users, App.net is also opening a free trial so that existing members can invite his friends to join the app.net free of charge, but free users can only have 500M of storage space and can only manage 40 friends.

At present, the industry generally believe that the high threshold of app.net and the characteristics of open and free, there will be a unique survival value, because the above gathered a large number of internet elites, it is likely to become like Quora to produce high-quality, high-value social content of the network community.