MySpace came, then went. So did Friendster. Tumblr was cool once, but then Yahoo bought it and it may or may not be still cool. Facebook and Twitter, for now, have staying power.
But Facebook is evil, man. It’s like gathering all of your data to push ads down your throat, and it handed so many things over to the government. It’s basically big brother, bro, and nobody likes a surveillance state (or private industry – whatever).
That’s what Ello is: a social network without real name requirements, without data mining, and alas, at least so far, without a lot of other things, like granular privacy controls or you know … people?
I first received an invitation to Ello last week. Because I’m not nearly as hip as my prescription skinny jeans suggest, I thought, “This must be spam.” So I let the invitation languish until I read about Ello on a news website. OK, it must be legit.
Thanks to Mark, I got in on the Ello party, and my first thought was this:
After listening to that gem six times, I clicked around on the site. Unfortunately, Mark is my only friend, and he’s been, so far at least, mute. Fair enough; why scream in an empty room?
The interface is … minimalist. Which means, most of the buttons are hard to see and pretty. There’s a “Friends” feed and a “Noise” feed – noise is a global curated feed (lots of pretty hipster art), while friends are your friends.
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- Google+ Dead? Is Google Seeing the Light? (FindLaw’s Technologist)
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