I hope I'm missing something here, but from what I saw on their videos it looked like there was more of a focus on aggregating all your information from the various closed social networks, rather than liberating you from using them altogether. :/<div>
<br></div><div>Being decentralised is cool, although I'd love to know how they'll solve the problem of finding other people to connect with. For all Eben Moglens otherwise excellent talk calling facebook nothing but webhosting with php doodads, he misses the point that FaceBook's real unique selling point is a massive network effect that makes it easy to find people you're not already in contact with. If they can keep it totally decentralised *and* so that people can still use it to find contacts they haven't talked to in years, they'll be onto a real winner.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm pretty impressed though that they managed to raise over 100k in under two weeks for this. That suggests to me that there *is* a strong demand for secure, private social/cloud services.</div><div>
<br></div><div>I look forward to OwnCloud helping deliver! :D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Jos Poortvliet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jospoortvliet@gmail.com" target="_blank">jospoortvliet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Marcel Meyer <<a href="mailto:meyerm@fs.tum.de" target="_blank">meyerm@fs.tum.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello together,<br>
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> interessting project, perhaps worth of cooperating?<br>
><br>
> A decentralized, social network: <a href="http://www.joindiaspora.com/" target="_blank">http://www.joindiaspora.com/</a><br>
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</div>Pretty website, just 4 dudes, GNU project. Hmmm. We could contact<br>
them... Their ideas seem really similar.<br>
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> For the german speaking community, this is a short article about it from an<br>
> IT-news portal: <a href="http://www.golem.de/1005/75092.html" target="_blank">http://www.golem.de/1005/75092.html</a><br>
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> Marcel<br>
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