Diaspora – It’s Finally here

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Audioillity

Ok so a few of you will have caught my post from last night (yesterday), where I talked about “Where is Diaspora?” Due for release on the 15th. On the following day (GMT) the source code still hadn’t been released!

This was further complicated by the fact that rather then posting a new blog post, they edited an old blog post 4 or 5 days after it was originally posted. Although I orginally missed this, it did confirmed some of the details I already worked out. e.g. It was only source code being released and it was still a way off being ready for the general public. The important fact they added in the latest edit was where the source code was being hosted!

However the good news is Diaspora’s here! The Diaspora source code has been released and there is now a link to it on their website. You can find there source code HERE.

Unfortunately I’m busy and out both tonight and tomorrow night, however I’m hoping to find some time over the weekend to get my chance to play with this new Social Networking tool ;)

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Where is Diaspora?

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Audioillity

Ok, A few weeks ago I posted about Diaspora. There has been a fairly big following on this project, a lot of people have been looking forward to the release of the source code/launch of this project. (If you didn’t know it was due for release yesterday 15th September.)

I sit here at just past midnight on the 16th and sadly there has been no release or update from the Diaspora Team!  I’ll admit I’m in the UK and on BST (GMT + 1), they also didn’t note the time or time zone where it will be released. However I’m somewhat disappointed that I’m going to have to wait a little longer before I get my chance to play.

It looks like I will be going to bed tonight without playing with the new social networking tool that hopes to replace Facebook!

Is this a bad start to the new social networking site? Only time will tell.

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Diaspora – A step forward in social networking!

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Audioillity

Diaspora: The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.

A while ago, I was talking about noserub, a step forward towards decentralised social networks. Now while this was far from perfect it was a good step forward, I’ve been keeping my ear to the ground and one of the projects I’m really looking forward to is Diaspora while it’s still under wraps, it should be launching in around 9 days (15th Setember!)

Diaspora is a truly decentralised social network, you control who holds your data, you can even have it stored on your own node, on your own web server! It will still fully interact with encrypted streams with your friends Profiles and servers!

I can’t wait to get my hands on this software and get a chance to try it out. The only problem as I see it is getting less tech savvy friends to move to the new network. Even if companies like Yahoo, MSN  & Google offer their own nodes on the Diaspora network, I still see a tough challenge ahead for Diaspora. I’ll personally be offering (if supported) access to accounts for my friends.

Some of the Key features Facebook & Others miss out on which have been included in Diaspora are:
You control you data, and access to it!
Share some stuff with your drinking buddys and not your Boss!
Taking the best from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr  & other interfaces into one packages

I just hope they can pull it off, I’m not sure it will replace Flickr for photos, or Twitter for micro blogging, only time will tell!

I hope Diaspora lives up to the hype! I will be posting a review after I’ve had the chance to set it up and hopefully convinced some of my friends to join in.

p.s. Take a look at their website

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