Creating a Network Like Facebook, Only Private →
From Jim Dwyer, on the NYTimes.com:
A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street, decided to build a social network that wouldn’t force people to surrender their privacy to a big business.
It’s starting. I don’t know if diaspora* is going to be it — although it does sound pretty good — but Facebook has now crossed from late adopters to laggards in the adoption curve, and geeks are looking for greener pastures.
Case in point, just this morning:
Oh. And I donated $100 to the Diaspora project - the open Facebook alternative. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects… http://bit.ly/bBvMix
Leo Laporte
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Not the finest authority in tech predictions, but still, an influential early adopter.
I also really like the developers bootstrap approach:
[…] their project — which does not involve giant rounds of venture capital financing before anyone writes a line of code — reflected “a return of the classic geek means of production: pizza and ramen and guys sleeping under the desks because it is something that it is really exciting and challenging.”
In any case, it’s disruption time in the social networks space again. Normal users should hang-on to the Facebook boat for a while, but geeks are ready to start signing up and giving a try to unstable new stuff.
