Are you fed up with all the talk of the new social network, ello, or are you a fan?
Well, I have signed up, and although I am not a fan of the design and the user interface, it does have a few good things going for it.
Although it is similar from a privacy point of view to app.net (also ad free), it allows a much richer pseudo blogging experience. It also has a much greater traction amongst users, which is important if it is going to attract the masses. That was something that app.net never managed to do unfortunately.
I was chatting to Mark Traphagen about this, and he says they will have to iterate fast if they are to keep users happy. ello is very much in beta and there are lots of missing features. As was with Google Authorship, your one stop source for ello is Mark Traphagen. He has spent the time looking through the platform and is writing an ello guide.
Being an early adopter with Google+ definitely paid off. Could being an early adopter with ello be important? Could that huge investment of time and energy be worth it, or will ello be yet another social network to bite the dust? As with most investments, it is a risky one, but it could be a rewarding one.
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