Diaspora was originally marketed as a user-owned social networking alternative to Facebook, that respects user privacy and data, to "be whoever you want to be" and "interact with whomever you choose in whatever way you want".
Diaspora, the Kickstarter-backed initiative launched two years ago by a group of NYU students aiming to create a decentralized social networking alternative to Facebook, announced today that it will now be "a community project".
Which is good, because I happen to think that building multiple open social networking alternatives in a lot of different ways will only make things more complicated, and probably assure that none of them grow into anything meaningful.
But given its role as a ubiquitous utility for login with your identity across the web, our compulsive desire to scroll its feed and check its notifications, and the lack of viable social networking alternatives, Facebook might see the backlash blow over eventually.
There have been many attempts to establish smaller social networking alternatives to Facebook with a family angle, including things like Everloop and Togetherville (acquired by Disney), but those have been focused on the kids…and they ran on the desktop, not mobile.
And if you're feeling burt out on Facebook, why not check out these 10 hipper social networking alternatives.
Facebook, founded in 2004 and based in Palo Alto, Calif., has positioned itself as the safe social-networking alternative.
The meeting was meant to be a light affair, focused on networking and alternative energy issues, but the first speaker had something heavier on his mind.
Mr. DeGraw, also research director at WorldFinanceNet.com, which tracks stock offerings, said that the initial-offering market had been sagging for several weeks but that its weakness was masked by enduring demand for biotechnology, optical networking and alternative energy stocks.
In a previous article, I described community networks that provide alternative networking solutions to megaprojects such as Facebook's free basics, offering internet access to refugees or communities outside the reach of traditional internet service providers.
To address competitive threats and concentrate in their core competences and strengths networking is the alternative of choice for survival and prosperity of most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) all over the world.
