Title: Test messsage
What I found intriguing here was that donors were willing to chip in
$130,000 to fund this, all in small-ish chunks.
The value of this would be undeniable - if it is able to interface with
facebook and linkedin, and run locally on someone's windows PC, it can
change the world one user at a time.
Also, the concept of a true social media spec w/software that uses it,
combined with the opensocial standard, gets me thinking that we might
not be out of reach of a modest social-media software client. Flock
might step up to the plate for this, or some flock plug-ins.
Worth watching how it progresses.
Sp
Sean Phelan
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On 5/14/2010 12:07 PM, Jim Hartley wrote:
Er, did
you forget the <sarcasm> ... </sarcasm> tags?
Jim Hartley
Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
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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