One for me too 'Naresh' Narasimhan Sent from my Phone
On 15-Dec-2010, at 9:12 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a few invites, for those of you who want to play with this. First > come, first served. > > Udhay > > http://mashable.com/2010/11/24/diaspora-preview/ > > Hands-on With Facebook Alternative Diaspora [PICS] > > Following a release of initial source code back in September, the first > group of private alpha invites for Facebook alternative Diaspora were > released to users on Tuesday. Mashable managed to snag some invites and > has put together a gallery to show you the service and how it looks > right now. > > The story behind Diaspora, which was started by four New York University > students, goes back about six months to the first Facebook privacy > crisis of the summer. > > Disillusioned with the social networking giant’s privacy settings (or > lack thereof), the Diaspora team decided to try to do something > different. Using Kickstarter, the team hoped to raise $10,000 so that > they could start working on the project over the summer. In the end, the > guys ended up raising just more than $200,000. > > Of course, six months is a long time in Internet time. The public > backlash over Facebook’s privacy gaffes have largely died down — it > seems to be an accepted necessary evil of being social in this day and age. > > The source code was summarily panned by much of the tech elite, but the > developers claim to have taken the criticism to heart. > > Now that alpha invites are going out, how does the service stack up? > Potential For Change or Disappointment? > > We want to be fair to Diaspora by noting that the service is in the very > beginning stages of a private alpha. Thus, we’re not going to be too > critical of the service’s lack of features — or the fact that attempting > to log in using Safari will crash the browser, full-stop, every single time. > > <snip> > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) >
