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"Diaspora?" the article featured on CNN

Posted by facepuppet on Sunday, June 20, 2010,

Diaspora is up against a true Giant

Sick of the barrage of Facebook privacy scandals?

Don't trust a multi-billion-dollar corporation with your photos and personal information?

Well, there may be an online social network for you yet.

It's called Diaspora, and it's an idea from four New York University students who say in a video pitch that big online companies like Facebook shouldn't be allowed to have access to, and to some degree "own," all of the personal data that flows in and out of ...

Diaspora? will the name even stand up against Facebook?

Posted by fp on Sunday, June 20, 2010,

I want to quote Mike Stanton from the CNN blog on the name Diaspora?

Heads up Diaspora developers! Your project will fail if you keep that name. You need to make the name simple and catchy like "facebook". Otherwise casual users will not remember it, and you will not have the kind of growth you will need for this to be a success. ... Mike Stanton CNN blog

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Can Diaspora even have a go at Facebook?

Posted by FP on Sunday, June 20, 2010,

There is a website being created to take on Facebook ... I will post more about Diaspora as they progress.

Diaspora is an open source project. I'm sure they will create a GPL license that will set this program free in to the wild. Like Linux and a host of other open source projects, much of the work is done by people for free. It's hard to believe that people donate such energy for free, but Joomla, Drupal, WordPress.... etc all live by this for the most part. FaceBook will not be able to...

Facebook comment on CNN blog

Posted by facepuppet on Sunday, June 20, 2010, In : quit facebook

I want to share a typical Facbook comment on CNN blog

The problem is not people who are whining about Facebook, and you can say "just don't sign up." The real key are people like myself and other early adopters. We got into this early on, when Facebook was still good, and had good privacy. But they've changed their privacy policy so many times, with no option to opt out, that who knows who has control of my data anymore? I came to CNN a week or two ago and my freaking face pops up on the...

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Showing Tag: "cnn" (Show all posts)

"Diaspora?" the article featured on CNN

Diaspora? will the name even stand up against Facebook?

Can Diaspora even have a go at Facebook?

Facebook comment on CNN blog

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