The Need Mac Help Blog » Social Networking http://needmachelp.com/blog Your source for information about Mac support and our digital lives in general. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:08:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Diaspora* – A Social Network Alternative to Facebook http://needmachelp.com/blog/2010/05/27/diaspora-a-social-network-alternative-to-facebook/ http://needmachelp.com/blog/2010/05/27/diaspora-a-social-network-alternative-to-facebook/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 15:44:47 +0000 sara http://needmachelp.com/blog/?p=571 This might be what a lot of us have been searching for: Diaspora*, which is being designed to be a “personally controlled, do-it-all, distributed open-source social network.”  Developed by four students at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Diaspora* is a social network built on privacy. Essentially, Diaspora* is software that will enable users to set up their own personal servers, called “seeds,” create their own hubs and have full control over the information they choose to share amongst friends.

The project has gained a good deal of support.  The team behind Diaspora* launched a funding campaign on Kickstarter to help them achieve their plan of being able to work non-stop for the next 3 months so that the software can be released by end of summer.  The initial goal was to receive at least $10,000 by June 1st.  As of today, they are fully funded at $189,797.

I’m excited to see how this pans out and will be following the team’s progress this summer.

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