Either businessweek.com needs a new proof-reader, or I'd like to order a pair of "increasingly large security breeches", they sound hilariously comfortable. Although I might not be allowed on an airplane wearing them.
On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data
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#12I thought this was an open source project run by volunteers, I was aware of the kickstarter donations, but did not think there was a business structure that had been set up? Is that the case? Otherwise what does this have to do with yc? (why investors if there's nothing to invest in?) And if there is an investable business there, what exactly is the revenue stream? Honestly curious, can someone explain?
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#13How do they plan on monetizing their efforts?
Maybe selling boxes to run at home, and an encrypted backup and proxy service tied in? (proxy for larger data like videos to share with peers)
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#14Sadly, every time I tried Diaspora, not only it was an empty wasteland (I could understand that), but it was feature-wise years behind Facebook and/or Twitter plus it was really slow and buggy.
Now I understand that my experience is just not that statistically relevant, but that's what I remember the most from the site - not being able to actually use it is not a good user experience
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#15For anyone who missed it because it was at the very end: Diaspora just announced they're in YCombinator S12.
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#16For anyone who missed it because it was at the very end: Diaspora just announced they're in YCombinator S12.
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#18How do they plan on monetizing their efforts?
By begging for more donations, just like last time they burned through what was it, $100K, without anything substantial to show for it?
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#19"They wanted to raise $10,000 to create a new kind of social network, one that lets people, not companies, own their personal data."
Are Google, Facebook, Twitter users really concerned about this? I know people make a noise about privacy and data protection - but would this make you change platform?
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#20I thought this was an open source project run by volunteers, I was aware of the kickstarter donations, but did not think there was a business structure that had been set up? Is that the case? Otherwise what does this have to do with yc? (why investors if there's nothing to invest in?) And if there is an investable business there, what exactly is the revenue stream? Honestly curious, can someone explain?
They've discussed this from the very beginning of the project -- third party hosting.
The goal of diaspora is to make it so that you can run it on your own server, but they assume most folk won't want to do that.