Product Reviews Net » Diaspora http://www.product-reviews.net Information on the latest gadgets, technology, news and product reviews Sat, 26 May 2012 11:39:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Diaspora vs. Facebook : Public release of source code to developers http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/09/17/diaspora-vs-facebook-public-release-of-source-code-to-developers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=diaspora-vs-facebook-public-release-of-source-code-to-developers http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/09/17/diaspora-vs-facebook-public-release-of-source-code-to-developers/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:39:26 +0000 Gary Johnson http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=108755 The public release of Diaspora’s source code to developers has been announced today. Diaspora is seen as an alternative to social networking site Facebook.

It differs to Facebook as all your information such as photos and status updates are stored on your ‘seed’, which is a personal web server and can be shared with your friends. In addition to this developers behind the new project want to try and provide a hosted service. This will be in a similar style to the WordPress.com blogging platform.

According to a blog entry by a developer Diaspora is “now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control”.

The entry goes on to say: “Feel free to try to get it running on your machines and use it, but we give no guarantees. We know there are security holes and bugs, and your data is not yet fully exportable. If you do find something, be sure to log it in our bugtracker, and we would love screenshots and browser info.”

After the Diaspora idea was first announced back in April it took only twelve days to reach its initial $10,000 fundraising target. It got $200,641 from 6479 people via its crowd sourced fundraising site Kickstarter.com.

Source: PC Adviser

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First-things-first, we can tell you that Diaspora (pronounced die-as-poe-ra) will launch on September 15, so not long to wait to see how it will look. That’s right, none of us even know what the new service will look like, but things are taking shape – as you will be able to see when you visit the website.

According to Ian Paul from PC World, the team developing Diaspora said that the promising social networking software is already working and that early results were looking good.

Diaspora has a huge weight on its shoulders, not only is the service expected to be an alternative to Facebook, but also Twitter and other such services. Do not expect this to happen overnight – if it ever does. Diaspora will most likely start with basic features and will evolve over time, but they cannot afford to take too long, as we know how fast things move in social networking.

For full details of expected features and more visit PC World.

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