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'''Ello''' is a social-networking website which currently markets itself as an ad-free [[Facebook]] alternative. Ello launched as an invite-only public beta in April 2014 and became popular in late September 2014.
'''Ello''' is a social-networking website which markets itself as an ad-free [[Facebook]] alternative. Ello launched as an invite-only public beta in April 2014 and became popular in late September 2014.


== Funding ==
== Funding ==
Ello's business model is currently somewhat vague. Their help page<ref>https://ello.co/wtf/post/why-no-ads</ref> says:
Ello's current business model is unclear. Their help page<ref>https://ello.co/wtf/post/why-no-ads</ref> says:


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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
* [https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA Andy Baio's post on Ello]
* [https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/oy73kFfDdhOPh8Jv9z9pFA Andy Baio's post on Ello] and [https://ello.co/waxpancake/post/Jp4o1TBtLrYytHpcEni0Kg follow-up post]
* [https://twitter.com/archiveteam/status/515115988778770432 @archiveteam: (Whistling, circling January 2016 on calendar and writing "ello project")]
* [https://twitter.com/archiveteam/status/515115988778770432 @archiveteam: (Whistling, circling January 2016 on calendar and writing "ello project")]
* [https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/516659144741634049 @textfiles: Where's your export function, Ello?]
* [https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/516659144741634049 @textfiles: Where's your export function, Ello?]

Revision as of 23:54, 2 October 2014

Ello
Ello logo
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URL http://ello.co
Status Online!
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Ello is a social-networking website which markets itself as an ad-free Facebook alternative. Ello launched as an invite-only public beta in April 2014 and became popular in late September 2014.

Funding

Ello's current business model is unclear. Their help page[1] says:

Ello is completely free to use.

Very soon we will begin offering special features to our users. If we create a special feature that you like, you can choose to pay a very small amount of money to add it to your Ello account forever. We believe that everyone is unique and that we all want and need different things from a social network. So, we are going to offer all sorts of ways for users to customize their Ello experience.

The vast majority of Ello's features, the ones that all of us use every day, are always going to be free, and we'll keep improving them. When you choose to pay a small amount of money for a new feature, you help support Ello as an ad-free network and help us make it better and better.

In January 2014, Ello took a $435,000 round of seed funding from FreshTracks Capital.

Downloading your data

As of October 2014, there is no export function, although it might be available in the future.[2]

Additionally, a copy of a user's posts can be retrieved by appending ".json" to the profile url (e.g. https://ello.co/textfiles.json).

References

  1. https://ello.co/wtf/post/why-no-ads
  2. https://ello.co/scottbeale/post/Z8InvSKY34keARET3oT2VQ: "@scottbeale @jayzes This isn't really something that we want to promote as any sort of API, but we'll talk about possibilities here. We'll get around to export and API functionality soon!"

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