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Diaspora Release Source Code As Promise

September 16, 2010

Diaspora, the “anti-Facebook”, launched the first iteration today as promised saying “This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control.”

Diaspora Diaspora Release Source Code As Promise

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According to their blog, the released version of Diaspora includes the following features:

  • Share status messages and photos privately and in near real time with your friends through “aspects”.
  • Friend people across the internet no matter where Diaspora seed is located.
  • Manage friends using “aspects”
  • Upload of photos and albums
  • All traffic is signed and encrypted (except photos, for now).

The team says they are working on including features like Facebook Integration, Internationalization, and Data Portability in its October Alpha release.

The team signs off with a post script “Feel free to try to get it running on your machines and use it, but we give no guarantees. We know there are security holes and bugs, and your data is not yet fully exportable. If you find something, be sure to log it in our bugtracker, and we would love screenshots and browser info”

Developers can get the code on Github.

The project was started to solve the one problem Facebook is not able to solve completely – user’s privacy. In due course of time, the team wants to dethrone Facebook.

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Diaspora To Launch Public Alpha In October

August 31, 2010

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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