The much hyped anti-Facebook project, Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally controlled” social network is due to release on September 15.
Public alpha version is expected to launched somewhere in October.
Unlike Facebook or Twitter, the concept of Diaspora is, to keep all its user data on a central server, and allow users to create “seeds” or personalized web servers. From these seeds, users can add their own networks and control what information goes to what network.
The Diaspora team raised more than $200,000 in 6 months with more than 31,000 followers. Even Mark Zukerberg gave to the cause, saying he saw something of himself in the team, spending many nights sleeping on their lab floors.
An ambitious summer project of four students – Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Diaspora has attracted worldwide attention.
Though dubbed as the anti-Facebook social network, it is highly unlikely to take your grandparents away from Facebook.
Facebook rules because even more matured users find it is easy to use, while the concept of Diaspora itself is hard to comprehend for the general masses.
So, “Will Diaspora be able to get worldwide acceptance once it is launched?” is yet to be seen.
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