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[Christine]

If anyone's handing out invitations, I'd quite like one too, even if only to reserve my preferred name! I've seen loads of these "next big thing" sites come and go, usually without making much of an impact, but it'd be nice to be ready in case one of them actually takes off.

[Ice Maiden]

Is an account on Known an individual account ala Facebook/Twitter etc or is your own social network?

Watch this - unlike Twitter and Facebook and Wordpress etc this is a hub account that is HTML 5 and mobile compatible to the point it even resizes youtube embedded videos automaticcal and photos unlike WP that uploads and cteats a load of different sizes of the same one.

You own all you content and it is portable should you move on. Try taking Facbook with you. You can embed this into your own webspace or use theirs at withknown.com. It looks basic and so does ELLO Ello looks REALLY BASIC! Withknown also has a system whereby you can ping other accounts with comments from your own account. So you own the comments even. It is having addons being built all the time. Most who have tested it are just topping it up for now to keep it alive just so they have got their names... But I think Withknown is a better bet as you in effect could have that on your phone post something say a photo to that and it appear automatically in every other social network in one go - time saving and the ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL! And you own all the content?! And can at some stage embed it into your own domain and take it with you!

HERE WATCH THIS IT IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW The people here talking are some of the most well known (pun intended) tech journnalists in the world) Leo has it on his own site already! He mocked Ello by comparison.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftApyXJJmKA[/youtube]

[Ice Maiden]

Here is what they thought of ELLO! YOU DECIDE - They gushed about KNOWN and said Ello was 'STUPID!'

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En9Or-AKbcU[/youtube]