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."
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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.