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Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Re: Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Post by rjett »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Rats -- someone here said, "I'd be worried if I was kickstarter at this point...", and as I went to reply to that, they deleted their comment. But it's spot-on. Short term, this is going to bring a lot of publicity and attention towards kickstarter, and that will also benefit the projects on there. If you'd like to launch something via kickstarter, now is the time to do it . Because, odds are, what these guys roll ou…

It seems like it would be an easy fix for Kickstarter to just let users implement a voluntary cap on total donated money.

Re: Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Post by derwiki »

andreyf wrote: post #20

This seems like a great opportunity for Google to "donate" some senior talent to the project, blow this up into a fully functioning platform (optionally backed up on Google's servers), and one-punch KO Facebook.

I really doubt it would be that easy to KO Facebook. Remember Orkut? Google is great at a lot of things, but building online communities is not one of them. Also, as has been pointed out in other discussions: most Facebook users don't care and aren't going to leave unless there's a compelling reason. A lot of their photos are already locked into Facebook -- it's going to take a lot to show them a greener pasture, and I doubt "better privacy" is going to be one of them.

Re: Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Post by dfj225 »

I'll be interested to see if, by the end of the summer, they have a working project and the turn-key hosting solution.

If they get this working, it'll be interesting to see what the adoption rates are. There might be some people with cash interested in using software such as this, but it still doesn't seem to have a draw beyond those with a deep knowledge of tech.

For instance, I'd wager that most Facebook users don't know what GPG is or care if it is being used or not.

Re: Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Post by pstinnett »

milod wrote: post #36
bcardarella wrote: post #7

This is going to be the most overhyped and underwhelming web project ever. This entire group looks like they have vaporware written all over them.

Is anyone else mildly depressed by the inequality between money raised and reality here? It's great that these guys are raising money, I'm all for it. They should take what they can get. But, what about all the brilliant open source projects out there, that people are actually enjoying and using today, not sponsored by large organizations that accept donations from the community. I'm willing to bet that _none_ of the…

Is that necessarily the case though? I'm hoping to see a lot more open source projects popping up on Kickstarter. While I'm not donating to Diaspora* (yet) I think I would be happy to donate to plenty of open source projects and Kickstarter seems to be a great platform for collecting those donations.

Re: Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Post by nirai »

jacquesm wrote: post #35
mrduncan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There really isn't any motivation to shut it down now though as far as I can tell. It seems like they're getting money with essentially no strings attached - might as well get it now while it's easy to get.

That's true. But they would come over a lot more credible (at least to me, that may be different for others). I you've misjudged your initial funding requirement by more than 10:1 you are already showing that you've done something wrong, so since they've received what they said they needed the logical next step would be to put up some proof they can deliver. Like that expectations stay within the realm of the feasibl…

Shutting it down? are you for real?

Re: Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Post by synnik »

milod wrote: post #36
bcardarella wrote: post #7

This is going to be the most overhyped and underwhelming web project ever. This entire group looks like they have vaporware written all over them.

Is anyone else mildly depressed by the inequality between money raised and reality here? It's great that these guys are raising money, I'm all for it. They should take what they can get. But, what about all the brilliant open source projects out there, that people are actually enjoying and using today, not sponsored by large organizations that accept donations from the community. I'm willing to bet that _none_ of the…

Is it great that these guys are raising money?

I don't know them, but if the issue is a major fundraising effort to replace Facebook, I would think that selecting teams to implement the new system would need some serious due diligence.

Should someone raise money? Absolutely. Is it these guys? I honestly do not know. More information is needed...

Re: Diaspora breaks $100k and all of Kickstarter's records

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Post by BoppreH »

derwiki wrote: post #43
andreyf wrote: post #20

This seems like a great opportunity for Google to "donate" some senior talent to the project, blow this up into a fully functioning platform (optionally backed up on Google's servers), and one-punch KO Facebook.

I really doubt it would be that easy to KO Facebook. Remember Orkut? Google is great at a lot of things, but building online communities is not one of them. Also, as has been pointed out in other discussions: most Facebook users don't care and aren't going to leave unless there's a compelling reason. A lot of their photos are already locked into Facebook -- it's going to take a lot to show them a greener pasture, and…

Orkut is just not popular in your country.

Here in Brazil it wasn't until last year that people started even knowing what Facebook/Myspace is.

The social rule around here is Orkut + MSN Messenger. Unfortunately it led to a wave of "@hotmail" emails, but that's another thing.

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