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- JackRyan0
I need something to feel relevant again, can I have an invite?
- kalkal0
I too, would also like to enjoy the smug superiority of being in this exclusive club.
- nb0
http://aralbalkan.com/notes/ello…
"They seemed genuine in their desire to build an ad-free/privacy-respecting network and I felt like their hearts were in the right place. I knew Ello would not be the long-term solution we needed as it was closed and centralised but I thought it could be a good stopgap.
What I didn’t know at the time was that they’d taken $435,000 in seed funding from FreshTracks Capital, a Vermont-based Venture Capital firm. This had apparently been announced by FreshTracks Capital in March.
When you take venture capital, it is not a matter of if you’re going to sell your users, you already have. It’s called an exit plan. And no investor will give you venture capital without one. In the myopic and upside-down world of venture capital, exits precede the building of the actual thing itself. It would be a comedy if the repercussions of this toxic system were not so tragic.
And so it is doubly disappointing and worrying that Ello doesn’t mention that they are venture capital funded anywhere on their About page. Instead, as Andy Baio points out in his post on Ello, “The About section makes it seem like Ello was built independently”."
- monospaced0
thanks scarabin
- HijoDMaite0
i have invites
- renderedred0
Looks promising.
- why? how is it different then all the other micro blogging sites out there?desmo
- GeorgesII0
here am I.
- MrAbominable0
@tage
- pinkfloyd0
add me https://ello.co/clubmonaco
- HijoDMaite0
so are you adding accounts to friends or to noise?
- set0
32 invite requests an hour
- scarabin0
i wonder how they're going to handle commercial pages and what kind of metrics they'll provide for them. it seems like a slippery slope.
for instance, movie studios will want to have pages for their movies and will offer huge sums of money for them, assuming ello takes off. will ello refuse them? ( is this what it means by no ads?) if not, where is the line drawn in terms of data gathered on those pages?
- Yeah this will be fun to watch... if they stay true to their mission they wouldn't accept itSigDesign
- scarabin0
"Invite your friends
We are slammed!
Ello has gone viral and we are temporarily freezing invitations for new users. This allows us to make sure that Ello remains stable as the network continues to grow.
Check back here for updates — we promise to give you more invites as soon as we can!"
- HijoDMaite0
shit, i just tried to generate some invites and got this message:
"We are slammed!
Ello has gone viral and we are temporarily freezing invitations for new users. This allows us to make sure that Ello remains stable as the network continues to grow.
Check back here for updates — we promise to give you more invites as soon as we can!"
- Beeswax0
by the way it's free until it starts making money.
- inteliboy0
virb?
- not really. at the moment a very simple but well designed social network with no ads.renderedred
- renderedred0
- first impressions. more interesting and engaging than FB and G+ ever were.renderedred
- ideaist0
Choose life.