Four nerd students from New York decided to build a new social network called Diaspora. Diaspora is dubbed as an anti-Facebook project. Respecting users privacy is the main concern of Diaspora.
Maxwell Salzberg, Daniel Grippi, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy are the nerds who created Diaspora. They gave themselves 39 days to raise $10,000, using an online site, Kickstarter, a new way to fund creative ideas. It looks like many are interested including Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg who is rumored to have invested on it. They successfully raised money that grew to more than $200,000.
Described as the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, distributed, free social network, Diaspora is set to face the biggest and most popular social networking site, Facebook. It is scheduled to be launched in public early October.
Users will be able to build their own social network on their own personal servers called seeds, then the seeds will aggregate all their information; Facebook profile, tweets, anything, and control all the information they share.
Securely share photos, videos, etc., users are in control without worrying about their data and and privacy online.
