(finally some one gets it) On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Sean Phelan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > [image: VIRTUssist.com - Outsourced Administrative, Marketing, and > Secretarial support] <http://www.VIRTUssist.com/> > http://www.sqcn.com - Web Development & Management by Sequoia Consulting > (321)698-7987The > > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > Aug 4 - Samba > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jun 2 - Android > Jul 7 - Patent Absurdity - The Movie > Aug 4 - Samba > >
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