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creeps you know or any other group. On Facebook, you can only communicate with other Facebook users, but Diaspora networks would behave like email. No matter what network, you can communicate with anyone. The idea, to make an “intuitive way for users to decide what content goes to their co-workers and what goes to their drinking buddies,” blew up when it was first announced in April. When the four put the idea on Kickstarter, a fundraising site, it attracted so many donations that they now refuse them. (One of the donations, funnily enough, came from our pal Zuckerberg.) But just as there are problems with Facebook, some will trouble Diaspora. The open-source software required to build a social network will have to exist on somebody’s computer. Chances are, whoever is hosting that network won’t have the billion-dollar server capability of Facebook. If the hosting server is off, so is the network. That means computers are a necessity for Diaspora users. This is fine in the Western world, but what of places like, for example, Kenya, where social networks are largely accessed through mobile phones? With Facebook, access is easy, 24/7, from any device. Even so, decentralizing power on the web is a lofty and exciting goal. Amongst all the lame corporate social networks launching (have you seen iTunes’ Ping?), Diaspora is a from-theground-up invention – and so far an astounding feat for anyone, let alone a group of college dudes. 3
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Who amongst us wouldn’t want to grab Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg by the strings of his hoodie and shake some sense into him? That question was asked and answered by four scruffy students from NYU. Those boys – Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy – were outright frustrated at Zuckerberg’s company repeatedly switching its privacy policies without notice. They didn’t like the fact that one cagey 26-year-old has complete control over a utility used by more than 500 million people. So the guys, hackers all, came up with the idea of Diaspora, “the privacyaware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open-source social network.” Essentially, it’s a Facebook that allows you to be your own Zuckerberg. The code for this in-your-face Facebook network was released Wednesday, September 14. Diaspora plans to launch its beta version in October, but expect developers to start creating networks almost immediately. Here’s how it works: Facebook keeps all its users’ information – everything you upload – on central servers, displays it on your profile and pretty much anywhere else it decides. Diaspora is built more like a peer-topeer network, using no central server, but instead, open-source software you install on your own hard drive. This way, you store your own pictures, status updates, videos and all other data on your own computer. You can start your own network, inviting only who you want. You can create a network for ex-girlfriends,
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