Revenge of the Nerds Against Facebook
Another article in the NY Times yesterday dealing with Facebook and privacy. Four students at NYU are fed up with Facebook and other centralized networks that flout user privacy. They are building Diaspora, touted as a personally controlled, do-it-all, distributed social network that will be open sourced. Based on the response–and funding–they’ve gotten, it seems many others are also desperate for social networking they can fully control without the tradeoff of surrendering personal information to large networks and central warehouses.
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