Pro-privacy social network launched as Facebook rival

[jofox]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - – Four US students who launched a new social networking site called "Diaspora" are stressing its ease of use and stricter privacy policy, in a bid to make waves in a field dominated by Facebook.

The version available to software developers since Wednesday is giving outsiders an opportunity to work on applications within its framework, ahead of a public launch due at a yet undisclosed later date.

"This is now a community project and development open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control," said the founders at the project site join diaspora - blog.

Billed as the "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network," New York University programmers Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy showed off the site's sleek white and gray interface with icons representing users, much like on Facebook.

Emphasis on privacy appears as a direct pull for the many complaints made about its giant rival in the field, and may serve as a tool to attract discontented users from Facebook's half-billion-strong population.

To set up Diaspora, the students made an appeal in May for donations through the site Kickstater.com, a platform for projects to find investors.

Successful in their efforts, the founders collected over 200,000 dollars, including input from, mysteriously, Facebook boss and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

[kit_cebu]

kapoya'g upload.......................................balik ta friendster ug Mirc oi....

[thethird79]

go go go mirc

[brandnewbien]

non sense ni ila. sakay ra ni cla sa ka sikat sa facebook.

[peewee_toot]

^^hahaha. mao jd. para masikat pd sila.

[Tirong-say]

Nindot unta kung ma-user friendly ni,
we really need privacy using this get together oriented sites.
dili ba pud kaha ni ma-hack.

[Motownkid]

Baduya ug pangan oi, Diaspora murag diaper...

Naka dawat pa jud diay silag donation from Mark Zuckerberg, tan-awn nato asa sila kutob.

Successful in their efforts, the founders collected over 200,000 dollars, including input from, mysteriously, Facebook boss and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

[jake_smack11]

nothing will beat facebook. ..

[kit_cebu]

nothing will beat facebook. ..

that's what friendster said before.......

only thing is permanent.............change..........

[peewee_toot]

nothing will beat facebook. ..

wa ta kahibaw sir. hehehe...