[kosko]

(09-26-2014 11:17 AM)runsonmagic Wrote:  

^^

Truth. The next Facebook won't be Facebook, it'll be a new better idea.

And Facebook will just buy it.


Ello can't sit around and not make money. It already has been leaked they have a sizable VC fund that put enabled them to up and run, eventually you will have to make money or fool people into thinking you can make money (Twitter) so your enablers can get a return. If they won't shill for Ads, they will data mine, because no social network has been able to survive unless doing one of the two (or both) and this one won't be any different. They all say the say BS at the start. Soundcloud was benevolent with music from the start and now is in the pockets of every Major Label and data mines like no other while successful channeling the majority of music traffic towards their site.

Tell me your benevolence Ello when Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, offers you a hundred million dollars and stock options. If they were serious about keeping it clean they would charge a small yearly fee of 5$ and make it payable in bitcoin or something along those lines to hammer in their "Anti-Establishment" ethos and the reality that they have bills and server fees to pay to maintain service. Its all a sham though. In comparison, Thom Yorke just dropped a new album which you can only buy with bitcoins, he doesn't give a fuck what the end result of the project is but he did his own way 100% outside traditional avenues. That's keeping it real.

The sites that kept it real aren't around anymore, or were subject to hostile take overs or shutdown.

The Internet is become a big joke. Nothing is authentic on it anymore, people are lapping up this Ellio thing when it was disappoint them like FB and all the rest in due time because that's just how the game works with these things.

As Kevin O'Leary would say: