With all the public focus on Facebook privacy fail: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8681730.stm
I found this project being developed: FOSS project Diaspora http://joindiaspora.com/project.html Diaspora is a social networking "project", which has raised over $100,000 in donations so far. The project it the brain child of a few young guys who want to give users clear and open control over their social networking activities. They want to give users their own nodes. The guys claim to have a "rudimentary prototype" of Diaspora running on their own machines, which includes GPG encryption, scraping Twitter and Flickr, “awesome design aesthetic”, and the "initial stages of connection infrastructure." OpenID, VoIP, distributed encrypted backups, IM protocol, and UDP integration are some of the things in the plans. ( from blog post http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/05/14/what-is-this-diaspora-everyones-talking-about ) So besides the fact that the project will ultimately FAIL since for it to succeed they must get 250 Million people to use it or more in less then 30 days. Do you think these guys should waist $100K in funds? Should FOSS projects be allowed to have such unachievable goals? I mean it's like if some Finnish student was going to take on the worlds largest company and actually make a difference.... right? Impossible, utterly impossible! It really pisses me off when people wast my time like this! We need to stop time wasters now! Joe
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