May 14 (PRINTWORDS NEWS)
It may be just a little early to say move over Facebook, but the new SNS Diaspora is sure creating ripples.Formed by four geeks in their early 20′s, Diapora promises all the privacy that Facebook does not. The public’s craze is evident from the cash inflow Diaspora recieved through the crowdfunding platform called KickStarter.
Diaspora promises the privacy by making each computer hosting its own own node that contains their own information. Thus by distributing network a computer will be able to connect with another separately without divulging any inforamtion to the public. Simply put, you host your own profile and share it with people you want to share with.
The four co-founders are New York University programming students who understood the mindset of the public towards Facebook’s recent actions. The fact that it gathered $100000 in donations through Kickstarters show that people donated more out of the anger that they felt towards Facebook. But inspite of the micro-financed privacy-minded social networking project’s runaway success in the short run, various opinions against its complex working and interface have cropped up. Maybe the venture capitalists are aitting up to take notice of the new phenomena, but in reality their product still doesn’t exist. All they have at the moment is ‘rudimentary prototype’ in their own servers.
The young entrprenuers with their new-born business have a long way to go in terms of mass-market feasabilty and scalable social networking service. The higher is the funding the more will be the pressure on the creators to deliver quality because the direct competition is the giant Facebook.
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