App.net: Both Twitter Clone and Anti-Twitter

Dalton Caldwell is a San Francisco entrepreneur who founded iMeem (a music-centric social network which was bought and then shuttered by MySpace) and Picplz (which lost the iPhone photo-sharing war to Instagram). back on July 1, he published a blog post titled “What Twitter could have Been.” in it, he expressed dismay with multiple things …

Apple’s App Store Surpasses Half-a-Million Apps

After less than three years of existence, Apple’s App Store has accumulated half-a-million mobile apps. The iTunes App Store, which launched in the summer of 2008, surpassed the 500,000 milestone Tuesday morning, according to 148Apps, an iPhone app reviews blog that has been tracking the store closely. To be clear, that’s 500,000 apps that Apple …