Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
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Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
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Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#2All they need is a simple migration path for users and they (or something like them) will be able to knock Facebook out of the water—but it'll happen quietly at first, like any other disruptive technology.
Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#3I wonder how many people have considered building something along these lines. I know I did when I started hearing about what came out of f8, and I don't even use Facebook currently.
Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#4I see they were trying really hard, but... the movie was a torture. Or maybe it was just my impression.
Also, it was funny that youtube included onesocialweb.org in the related videos at the end - it seems to be a similar concept, but I've never heard about it before.
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#5Ugh, software teams are the new bands.
Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#6I wonder how many people have considered building something along these lines. I know I did when I started hearing about what came out of f8, and I don't even use Facebook currently.
I also considered building something along these lines - which is why I contributed to this project.
Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#7Ugh, software teams are the new bands.
Guy wearing the V-neck in both images?
Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#8I wonder how many people have considered building something along these lines. I know I did when I started hearing about what came out of f8, and I don't even use Facebook currently.
I played with this idea a full year ago. The ability to own your own data and share it out as a web service or data host. There would be no need for a centralized server, and it would provide many competitive opportunities to host what I came to call "identity servers." This would create innovation as each value added provider can experiment with the direction.
I won't be the first to call it now - but I can imagine the popularity of decentralized architectures catching mainstream attention. Git is getting popular, vs say SVN or CVS.
Remember, the internet itself is decentralized.
Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#9I wonder how many people have considered building something along these lines. I know I did when I started hearing about what came out of f8, and I don't even use Facebook currently.
I played with this idea a full year ago. The ability to own your own data and share it out as a web service or data host. There would be no need for a centralized server, and it would provide many competitive opportunities to host what I came to call "identity servers." This would create innovation as each value added provider can experiment with the direction. I won't be the first to call it now - but I can imagine…
Yeah the ability to easily self-host an identity server or to be able to just pay someone else to be hosted on theirs is hugely important.
Also the ability to easily move your identity and inform people you have moved so they can update. Doing that last part securely is one of the things that hung me up when thinking about it, but I also only really dug into it for an hour or so.
Re: Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook
#10All they need is a simple migration path for users and they (or something like them) will be able to knock Facebook out of the water—but it'll happen quietly at first, like any other disruptive technology.
Considering you are now allowed to permanently store data extracted from FB with their API, I wonder just how easy/doable this would be now...