<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This may prove of interest:</div><div><br></div><div><i>Why Diaspora Will Fail</i></div><div><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/21/diaspora-social-network-fail-kickstarter-facebook">http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/05/21/diaspora-social-network-fail-kickstarter-facebook</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 21, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Jon Ippolito wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 14, 2010, at 8:00 AM, <a href="mailto:idc-request@mailman.thing.net">idc-request@mailman.thing.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Eurostile; ">From: Andreas Schiffler:<br><br>I wanted to post a quick link that would allow anyone who is fed-up with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Facebook's continuing path of commercializing the social graphs of its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>users to fund the development of an open source distributed replacement:<br><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr</a><br><br>Seems like a worthy goal and technically feasible (although I admit that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>I won't be donating, since I don't have a use for such a service).</span></blockquote></div>Thanks, Andreas. I contributed, not because I have a use for Facebook, but because I have an interest in seeing it die. More background at "Your guide to the Facebook revolt of 2010":<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nmdnet.org/2010/05/18/your-guide-to-the-facebook-revolt-of-2010/">http://www.nmdnet.org/2010/05/18/your-guide-to-the-facebook-revolt-of-2010/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>jon</div><div><div>______________________________</div><div>Still Water--what networks need to thrive.</div><div><a href="http://still-water.net/">http://still-water.net/</a></div><div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (<a href="http://distributedcreativity.org">distributedcreativity.org</a>)<br><a href="mailto:iDC@mailman.thing.net">iDC@mailman.thing.net</a><br>https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc<br><br>List Archive:<br>http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/<br><br>iDC Photo Stream:<br>http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/idcnetwork/<br><br>RSS feed:<br>http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.culture.media.idc<br><br>iDC Chat on Facebook:<br>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2457237647<br><br>Share relevant URLs on Del.icio.us by adding the tag iDCref</blockquote></div><br></body></html>