On 08/30/2010 11:27 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11108891 > > > Facebook alternative Diaspora [...] > > Quote: "the team will make the underlying code available for anyone to > see and modify." > -- > Mike Schwartz > Glendale AZ > schwartz@acm.org There are other projects trying to create Facebook clones too: http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/social/ In any event, it's going in the wrong direction. The only reason you would want to do this due to open-source fanboyism, it's not adding any new features. What we really want is a p2p system for sharing information, perhaps with a rich metadata model like RDF, and then cryptographically signed or encrypted and sent to your friends by email or a distributed hash table or some p2p protocol that distributes and clones your information among your friends and yourself. I've seen there is a "p2p GNU Social" being thought up (and hopefully dropping "GNU" from the name). Maybe it would even have a Facebook<->p2p gateway so your low-tech friends aren't left behind. Austin Wright.