{"id":6932,"date":"2010-05-12T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T23:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2010-05-12T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T23:46:21","slug":"waiting-for-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6932","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook by allegedly ripping off some code from a Harvard classmate? (I have to say &#8220;allegedly&#8221; because <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Zuckerberg#ConnectU_Controversy\">the lawsuit was eventually settled by Facebook for $65 million, and there was no finding of guilt<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, now four hip programmers, students at New York University, are working on Diaspora. They&#8217;re not going to rip anything off, because they&#8217;re going to create open source software. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/maggieshiels\/2010\/05\/the_antifacebook.html\">BBC reports<\/a>: &#8220;Maxwell Salzberg, Daniel Grippi, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy are the brains behind Diaspora which they describe as &#8216;the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network&#8217;.&#8221; They have raised $25,000 for a summer coding sprint to make the first iteration of Diaspora public.<\/p>\n<p>Boy do I hope they succeed. Facebook sucks. The platform is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/195710\/new_facebook_social_features_secretly_add_apps_to_your_profile_updated.html\">disorganized and buggy<\/a>,&#8221; Facebook clearly has no concerns for your personal privacy, and it&#8217;s a closed system that reminds me of the bad old days of LiveJournal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook by allegedly ripping off some code from a Harvard classmate? (I have to say &#8220;allegedly&#8221; because the lawsuit was eventually settled by Facebook for $65 million, and there was no finding of guilt.) Well, now four hip programmers, students at New York University, are working on Diaspora. They&#8217;re not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}