The popular advertisement free social network, App.net has now turned one year old and the founder of the platform, Dalton Caldwell, broke the news on the site by saying that they are celebrating their first birthday on Wednesday, August 14th. A year ago Caldwell founded the network, as he was looking to develop a better network, which focuses more on communal networking rather than what others are already offering. He wanted to go away from the way Twitter and other social networks have made revenue generation their priority instead of serving developers, whose creations have played a vital role in making them popular today.
Here is an excerpt from Dalton’s post on App.net blog, in which he has written that, “It’s now the one year anniversary of App.net. Over the past year we have been making a transition from getting the basics of a social API up and running to supporting a vibrant community of 3rd party applications. So far, so good.
We are proud of the progress that we have made thus far, but we are just scratching the surface of our goals for the platform. In year two, as our focus expands from simply trying to deliver basic “1.0″ versions of our API, our overall mission remains the same: building a social platform with better aligned incentives with both users and developers.”
Apart from this Caldwell also highlighted some of the achievements of the ad-free social networking website in the post, which have come their way during the past year:
“3rd-party developers have used the APIs and platform to build and ship many amazing, production-quality apps. Here are just a few:
Whisper, an iOS private messaging app.
Felix, an iOS microblogging and messaging app.
Orbit, a file management app for iOS and OS X.
Robin, a microblogging and messaging app for Android.
Sprinter, a photo-sharing app for iOS.
Noodle, a web client for reading your App.net stream and posting.
And many more, like Netbot, Rory Jr., Kiwi, and Riposte, including apps like Ohai, Patter and Amy which demonstrate that the App.net platform can be used to build applications unrelated to microblogging.”
Caldwell also gave readers an idea about how he and his team are looking forward and a preview of what’s next for them, as the founder wants to continue his effort to build a strong foundation and roll out new API’s for the developers in the future as well.
Source: App.NetBlog, TNW
Photo: App.NetBlog
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