What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebook Money • Hacker News Board

Re: What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebook Money

#51

Post by theoneill » Tue, May 18, 2010, 12:16 AM UTC

kmavm wrote: post #25

I suspect the first of many lessons Diaspora would do well to learn from Facebook: the hype cycle giveth, and the hype cycle taketh away. Right now, they're hipster Linus times four, getting fawning press coverage, and raking in donations from credulous blog-readers. Several months hence, with nothing that anybody would want to use working*, they may find the media, and many whose checks they cashed, suddenly less sn…

Raking in pledges, not donations. I wonder what the conversion rate is.

Re: What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebook Money

#52

Post by textfiles » Wed, May 19, 2010, 7:38 AM UTC

pc wrote: post #14

Yishan Wong (early Facebook employee) gave an excellent answer to this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-potential-obstacles-to-Dia... . (Quora is still in private beta, but I'd imagine many HNers have accounts.)

Isn't it awesome when a person has drank so much of the Kool-Aid that they're spewing Kool-Aid when they talk, and their idea of breaking out of the Kool-Aid mold they were in is to create new Kool-Aid and disparage non-Kool-Aid things because they have features or outlooks that don't resemble Kool-Aid?

Re: What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebook Money

#53

Post by jacquesm » Sat, May 22, 2010, 3:03 PM UTC

zzzmarcus wrote: post #28

pc wrote: post #14

Yishan Wong (early Facebook employee) gave an excellent answer to this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-potential-obstacles-to-Dia... . (Quora is still in private beta, but I'd imagine many HNers have accounts.)

Since when I registered for Quora the TOS said my content could be pasted anywhere as long as there was a link back, I'm assuming it's okay to paste Wong's answer here as well. I couldn't find anything on their site that specifically says what license the content falls under, if someone finds out differently, lmk and I'll remove it. Yishan Wong, Worked at Facebook from 2005-2010. "As it stands, based on available tec…

There is a flaw in part of the arguments here, people are not just concerned about the stuff they themselves give to facebook, but also about the stuff that others in their 'friends graph' are writing about them, and the tagging of photos without name by third parties.

Looking through the 'friended' pages of people with empty profiles can give a significant amount of information on the people whose profiles are blank.