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According to its blog, Diaspora, an open-source alternative to Facebook will be launching on September 15, and the internet is abuzz with anticipation to see exactly what it is about.
Self described as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled” social network, Diaspora is the brainchild of a team of New York University programming students, and was funded through the Kickstart website where it raised $200,642 from nearly 6,500 people.
Hitting the headlines this year when Facebook was held up with its privacy fiasco and accused of complex and confusing settings, it will be interesting to see if, and how, Diaspora impacts on Facebook’s 500 million users and estimated $33bn value.
“We are spending a good chunk of time concentrating on building clear, contextual sharing,” say the Diaspora team in a recent blog post. “That means an intuitive way for users to decide, and not notice deciding, what content goes to their coworkers and what goes to their drinking buddies.”
Watch the Diaspora team discuss the project below:
Looks promising. Good luck guys!
crap name “I will put that on Facebook” roles off the tongue quick an easy – I don’t even know how to pronounce Diaspora
So not interested in changing all my stuff from facebook over to a new program…
just money grabbing from someone’s elses idea how standard of the naughties…
Great, Facebook needs competition. If it’s any good I’ll move over from Facebook.
I am very supportive of anyone attempting to help people communicate online in a safe and “private by default” manner.
My only concern is, will people, who souly wish to communicate with their friends and family, also then take the time to create and set up something which is automatically determined for them already in an online social network, such as Facebook? Albeit, in an entirely anti-privacy manner.
Will people actually be bothered take the opportunity to exert some agency over who can and can’t see their personal information or will Diaspora only attract a Geek niche market who already understand how to use this social medium effectively?
Will Diaspora just be too complicated for the “Average Joe” internet user?
I personally, am excited by the prospect of creating my own “node” and will definitely be watching this one closely on September 15!
umm… what’s a node?
OK, the name’s loaded, but very true, in a way. @Beth: get yourself some history books. I just wonder what’s the business case, if they don’t steal your data, yet another traffic generator? And, of course, naming it a potential facebook killer seems like naming any pre-beta Linux distribution a “Microsoft Windows Killer”, very unlikely, as most people don’t give a damn for privacy, the dumb mass actually *dig* being spied on, it makes them feel more important than they know they are.
sounds interesting,
The name sucks balls. Just another way to waste time, so…
In case anyone is interested, you pronounce it: die-as-poe-ra (according to the faq)
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