With its alpha release, App.net promised a new kind of social network: a short-message service like Twitter, but subscription-supported and free from ads. Today, the company's adding 10 GB of cloud storage and a file-access API, in an attempt to expand that service into a fully-realized social app platform.
You can think of it like iCloud or Dropbox with a social layer — a central place to store and share files across platforms and service silos — or you can think of it as free hosting for services that want to build photo-sharing, group-messaging, or Pinterest-like web applications using App.net's login. In fact, App.net founder Dalton Caldwell said in an interview, a developer could bundle all of these services together and...
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