We have been keeping our eyes on Diaspora, an Open Source alternative to Facebook, for a while now but they’ve been very, very quiet – until now.
After doing some significant capital raises (and even raising some money from the Founder of Facebook himself), they’ve updated their blog and let the world know that September 15th is going to be a very big day:
We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th.
We are spending a good chunk of time concentrating on building clear, 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.
Sweet. It’s on my calendar.
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