Diaspora
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]. In September of 2010, the group released a developer preview of the site that had many security holes[2]. In November of 2011, Diaspora released a redesigned alpha version, several days after it was discovered that one of the founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy had committed suicide[3].
Concept
Features and Applications
The service includes the following features among others hashtag following, direct messages, status updates, Like buttons, a notifications, channel. Cubbi.es is Diaspora's first application which allows users to post photos that they discover on the web to Diaspora via browser extensions[4].
References
- ↑ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr
- ↑ September 16, 2010. Dan Goodin. Code for open-source Facebook littered with landmines http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/diaspora_pre_alpha_landmines/
- ↑ November 13, 2011. Josh Constine. Following Founder’s Passing, Diaspora Opens Redesigned Alpha To Invitees. http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/13/diaspora-redesign/
- ↑ November 13, 2011. Josh Constine. Following Founder’s Passing, Diaspora Opens Redesigned Alpha To Invitees. http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/13/diaspora-redesign/
