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recent bookmarks from jmwaxpancake on Ello2014-09-27T20:16:20+00:00
https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA
jmThe Ello founders are positioning it as an alternative to other social networks — they won't sell your data or show you ads. "You are not the product."
If they were independently-funded and run as some sort of co-op, bootstrapped until profitable, maybe that's plausible. Hard, but possible. But VCs don't give money out of goodwill, and taking VC funding — even seed funding — creates outside pressures that shape the inevitable direction of a company.
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http://belong.io/
jmaggregators news links twitter waxy belong.iohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c0f9a72507d0/How You Can Help Save Upcoming.org, Posterous, and More2013-04-20T22:07:45+00:00
http://waxy.org/2013/04/how_you_can_save_upcoming/
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2687950
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