September 1st, 2010 by Geoff
Facebook has recently come into a lot of criticism for the confusing privacy settings and lack of security. A group of American students have since developed an open alternative to Facebook which will be launched around mid September 2010. This is clearly a result of them jumping on the bandwagon of Facebook’s bad publicity throughout the past couple of months.
The group of students responsible for the project consists of three computer scientists and one mathematician from New York. Their new system Diaspora has been described as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled” social network which is to be open sourced from 15/09/2010.
The students were able to raise $200,642 from approximately 6500 people to help fund their project. It has also been said that the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has also contributed to the donations.
Face books popularity has increased significantly since its launch in 2006. And Facebook is currently valued at an estimated $33bn and with 500 million users it is difficult to believe that this new system will be able to compete. Face books popularity has increased significantly since its launch in 2006.
As the initial launch is to be open sourced the team have said that they will make their underlying code available for anyone at all to view and amend. So the question here is that how many other projects will stem from this and is Facebook now going to have to battle to keep their place at the top?
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