In April, four students of New York University set out to create Diaspora, an “anti-Facebook” sort of platform, which will aim to provide the same functionality as the popular social network. But unlike Facebook, it will run on open-source software, without depending on centralized servers.
The four students used Kickstarter, a fundraising Web site and the goal was to reach $10,000 by the 1st June to cover summer expenses developing the app. With under an hour to go, Diaspora has raised a total of $200,647 collected from several donors including Facebook CEO himself, Mark Zuckerberg.
Lets hope the team (below) with a supposed idea problem can at least get their hands on a decent name, domain and site now. Get to work fellas!
Another great alternative is http://chirrps.com/TheNextWeb – It’s powered by Twitter
Great for Diaspora. Now show us a damn product already.
your just jealous cause you live in your moms house and your 30, these guys rock
Of course Mark contributed. And he’ll be giving them a big fat check when he buys them out to get their server-less technology.
It could be a great product, but a social network without users is quite boring. Having nice features and being open source is interesting for the geek crowd, however that crowd is rather small. So I am very curious how diaspora is thriving the adoption of their solution as soon as they finished building it.
Facebook alternative (anti-facebook) http://connectler.com