An alternate social networking site for Facebook users will be launched on 15 September as an open-sourced.
As reported by PCWorld India that "the anti-Facebook project, Diaspora, a "privacy-aware, personally controlled" social network will launch its public alpha version in October this year. Open-source developer release coming in September 15. (Read further : Anti-Facebook Diaspora alpha release in October - PC World)
Open-source projects have become hot news this year when Facebook was forced to simplify the privacy settings, after they were criticized for being too complicated and confusing.
The project was started by three computer science students and a mathematician from New York University. Announced on April 24, 2010, the team already reached their $10,000 goal in 12 days, and the money continues to come in: as of Tuesday afternoon, they had raised $23,676 from 739 backers, as reported by The New York Times on May 11, 2010. (Read further : Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook)
Maxwell Salzberg and Daniel Grippi working with Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy are the four talented young nerds and the brains behind the Diaspora which they describe as "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network".
Will Diaspora replace Facebook ? "This is not about Facebook. Facebook is not what we are going after. We are going after the idea there are all these centralised services where people are giving up their personal information. We want to put users back in control of what they share. Diaspora is an anti-network. We are not planning on having big servers that store everyone's information. They will all be individually owned and operated so people can really say they have full control over their information" said Max Salzberg as reported by BBC News on May 12, 2010. (Read further : The anti-Facebook)
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