Violet Blue just posted a walkthrough of the Diaspora alpha which i thought was worth sharing. She has a pretty good following of both techie and non-techies, so it's cool to have her on board. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/diaspora-in-pictures-a-candid-walkthrough-in-alpha/15141
My favorite quotes: "If Facebook were a dominatrix, she would be out of business by now." "Diaspora is really just the better known of the emergent open standards social movement – the backlash to Facebook, thy name is distributed. Standards are emerging that will allow GNU social, Diaspora, and other networks to communicate with each other and you keep your profile, your own. Many are thinking Beyond Diaspora. It is much like how the current open standards for email broke down the walled garden of AOL." "What’s happening with Diaspora and things like GNU Social could signal a huge shift in the way we use social networks. The move is to decentralize profiles away from corporate networks, sort of like seeing Facebook as Big Social." and Reddit'd http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/duplicates/ein2o/can_diaspora_gnu_social_and_the_like_take_on_the/
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