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| − | In 2010 the group of founders began a fundraising campaign on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Within 12 days they surpassed their funding goal of $10,000 and when the funding closed after 39 days on Kickstater the project had secured $200,000 in funding<ref> | + | In 2010 the group of founders began a fundraising campaign on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Within 12 days they surpassed their funding goal of $10,000 and when the funding closed after 39 days on Kickstater the project had secured $200,000 in funding<ref>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr</ref> |
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Revision as of 14:40, 18 December 2011
Diaspora
Diaspora is a project that was founded by New York University students Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. Diaspora is intended to be an open-source, decentralized alternative to Facebook.
History
In 2010 the group of founders began a fundraising campaign on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Within 12 days they surpassed their funding goal of $10,000 and when the funding closed after 39 days on Kickstater the project had secured $200,000 in funding[1]
