Thermate911
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Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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Location: UEMS
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 Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 9:40 am Post subject: Status trumps Twitter; Farcebook out the window... |
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/only_burning_man_stands_between_d iaspora_the_open.php
| Quote: | The team behind Diaspora, the open source alternative to Facebook that got a lot of high-profile press during Facebook's privacy controversies earlier this year, announced today that it is on track to launch the first open source version of its social network on the 15th of September. Just as soon as two of its members get back from the Burning Man festival.
The team says it has pushed back technical work like plug-ins and APIs and is instead focused on User Interface and a key feature that Facebook has neglected: contextual sharing. "That means an intuitive way for users to decide, and not notice deciding, what content goes to their coworkers and what goes to their drinking buddies. We know that's a hard UI problem and we take it seriously."
The way that Facebook has failed to embrace that kind of contextual sharing and has instead pushed for universal openness of almost all published content by default is one of the biggest things the world's leading social network has been criticized for. It could be a serious vulnerability in the social networking market. ... ... ... |
So, not before time, there are now open source alternatives to farcebook & twitter and for those still awake, there is of course https://startpage.com instead of the all consuming g00gle, which I note this site refuses to get rid of, despite knowing how closely enmeshed it is with the US State Dept and its policies now largely based on g00gle demographics and search terms!
Bye bye twitter, hello http://status.net/
Bye bye farcebook, hello http://www.joindiaspora.com/index.html
and good riddance g00gle, hello https://startpage.com/
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