Diaspora Vernetzung
Salzberg, Diaspora, im TR-Interview: Facebook ist doch abwegig; http://eicker.at/DiasporaVernetzung
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Gerrit Eicker
Diaspora*
Diaspora: nicht-kommerzieller Open Source-Webserver zum Betrieb dezentraler sozialer Netzwerkdienste; http://eicker.at/Diaspora
Gerrit Eicker
Diaspora Summary
IEEE: The making of Diaspora. Four young coders are planting the seeds for the post-Facebook future; http://eicker.at/DiasporaSummary
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Gerrit Eicker
Wikipedia: “Diaspora (stylized DIASPORA*) is a free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service, providing a decentralized alternative to social network services like Facebook. The project is currently under development by Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, students at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The group received donations in excess of $200,000 via Kickstarter. A consumer alpha version was released on November 23, 2010. … Diaspora works by letting users set up their own server (or ‘pod’) to host content; pods can then interact to share status updates, photographs, and other social data. It allows its users to host their data with a traditional web host, a cloud based host, an ISP, or a friend. The framework, which is being built on Ruby on Rails, is free software and can be experimented with by external developers.”
IEEE: “Journalists and bloggers have called Diaspora ‘the Facebook killer,’ ‘the Facebook rival,’ ‘the anti-Facebook,’ ‘Facebook’s challenger,’ and ‘another Facebook wannabe.’ … The guys, however, don’t see themselves as competition. … They’re taking a stab at reengineering the way online socializing works by building an entire network of networks from the ground up. They hope that in the process they will help promote standards that other social sites … will use to bridge their services. … Choice, interoperability, and the chance to invent your own networking experience are what federated networks such the Diaspora pods are all about. … They don’t like that Facebook owns the data they share through the site and can mine or sell it to advertisers at will. … Above all, they don’t like that most ordinary people and many Web engineers have come to believe that seven-year-old Facebook represents the be-all and end-all of everything online socializing will ever be. … ‘The problem with Diaspora right now is it’s not designed to work with other providers out of the box,’ says Ben Zhao, a network security expert at the University of California, Santa Barbara [listen to an interview with Zhao].”
Diaspora Wiki: “Diaspora needs you! – Diaspora is an open source project, which means all our code and documentation is available for free to anyone online. It also means that, while there is a core team working on the project full time, it only thrives because we have a wonderful set of volunteer collaborators who help out in their free time. – Some of these volunteers are developers and help with the code, which is the ‘traditional’ way to help out an open source project, and is awesome. But many are not developers, and their contributions are awesome too. … Come talk to us. The best ways to get in touch in realtime are our Convore group, or IRC. Tell us what you’re interested in working on – code, tutorials, feature ideas, mockups, running a pod, helping with the wiki, other – and we can help you figure out how to get going.”
Gerrit Eicker
Diaspora, finally
Diaspora, the open source, decentralised social network, is calling; http://eicker.at/DiasporaNews – Thank you, @darianknight
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Gerrit Eicker
I’m at eicker@joindiaspora.com < It's a Web-link.
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Gerrit Eicker
The more I’m using Diaspora, the more I feel embarrassed for Google: they copied each and every “aspect” from Diaspora! Not even the UI/UX work of Plus is Google’s innovation: Google should give credit for Diaspora’s work loudly. – It seems to be fair that Diaspora struck back by following Google Plus’ design.
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Will Burns
Social Media sites are essentially designed the same way. Diaspora was an open initiative in response to Facebook and their privacy issues. Google+ is essentially just a run of the mill social Network that maybe brings a couple of things to the table, but design wise it’s roughly the same. Which brings me to a bigger point – I can get along just fine on Diaspora and not miss access to Google+ or Facebook in the process.
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Gerrit Eicker
Indeed, I really prefer the Diaspora-concept. And not only regarding the privacy-headache: it’s a matter of security and rights as well, e.g. for organisation’s intranets. Diaspora might get partially accessible social networking to places where it’s banned completely. – Right now Diaspora comes with some smaller limitations regarding media-sharing. But all relevant features are well-designed and pretty functional. Personally I won’t miss anything. I could imagine Diaspora as a replacement for this blog at a later date.
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Gerrit Eicker
Andromeda: “When it comes to Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg once said ‘Privacy is dead’ and when it comes to Google+ they are taking a similar stance in that your profiles must be tied to a real person (wallet name) and they will be insisting on making all profiles public. … Diaspora, on the other hand is the polar opposite to this ‘Privacy is dead’ approach by stating it is specifically designed to facilitate your privacy in a decentralized and agnostic manner which each person is free to control entirely, while also giving users and entities the right to start their own ‘pod’ in the network with the source code. … While Diaspora isn’t as fully featured as Facebook or Google+, you have to hand it to their small team in that they are diligently working on the code and making it better over time. Their greatest concern isn’t whether or not you can play Angry Birds, or beg for CafeWorld items on your stream, but in making the underlying system secure and privacy aware, even with encryption.“
Gerrit Eicker
Diaspora: “There’s been big news in the social networking world recently, and we can’t help but be pleased with the impact our work has had on two of the biggest developments. We’re proud that Google+ imitated one of our core features, aspects, with their circles. And now Facebook is at last moving in the right direction with user control over privacy, a move spurred not just by Google+, but more fundamentally by you and tens of thousands of community members, as well as hundreds of thousands of people who’ve lined up to try Diaspora* – that is, by all of us who’ve stood up to say ‘there has to be a better way.’ We’re making a difference already.“
Gerrit Eicker
Bitcoin
P2P virtual currency: Bitcoin transactions offer direct payments, cut out banks, any other middle man; http://eicker.at/Bitcoin
Gerrit Eicker
iOS Tracker
Apple‘s iOS stores user’s location histories on iPhones and iPads: huge security and privacy fail; http://eicker.at/iOStracker
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Gerrit Eicker
Apple responds: “The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of which may be located more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone, to help your iPhone rapidly and accurately calculate its location when requested. Calculating a phone’s location using just GPS satellite data can take up to several minutes. iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data to quickly find GPS satellites, and even triangulate its location using just Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data when GPS is not available (such as indoors or in basements). These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple.“
Gerrit Eicker
Computing Infrastructure: a Commodity
Facebook‘s Open Compute Project demonstrates that even computing infrastructure is a commodity; http://eicker.at/OpenCompute
Gerrit Eicker
Proprietary Ecosystems
Making business and systemic risks in proprietary ecosystems: Twitter suspends UberMedia; http://eicker.at/ProprietaryEcosystems
Gerrit Eicker
Apache Wave
Google introduces Apache Wave: Wave in a Box (WIAB) enters the ASF‘s incubator program; http://eicker.at/ApacheWave
Gerrit Eicker
Diaspora Alpha
Diaspora releases set of invites for its alpha: baby steps to identify problems and iterate; http://eicker.at/DiasporaAlpha
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Gerrit Eicker
Diaspora: “Today we’re releasing the first set of invites for the Diaspora alpha at joindiaspora.com. Every week, we’ll invite more people, starting with our Kickstarter backers, and then moving through our mailing list. By taking these baby steps, we’ll be able to quickly identify performance problems and iterate on features as quickly as possible. – We are proud of where Diaspora is right now. In less than five months, we’ve gone from nothing to a great starting point from which the community can keep working.”
TC: “After the money came in, the team sequestered themselves for the Summer to work on the project. Despite some hiccups, they were able to unveil the source of the project in September to mixed reviews. Meanwhile, a user-facing alpha launch was promised for October. That came and went, and they pushed the launch to Thanksgiving. Well, we’re two days away from turkey day, and Diaspora has delivered this time. … But the service is also quick to hedge their bets. ‘It isn’t perfect, but the best way to improve is to get it into your hands and listen closely to your response,’ they note about the aspects idea. They then go on to list five things they know they could do better, including: security, better APIs, better documentation, easier upgrades, and cleaner code. Yeah, that’s quite a few major things.”
Mashable: “Since the initial flurry of interest, we’ve been waiting to see how the project would pan out – and if the guys would give us a clearer picture of what it would look like. Back in September, the Diaspora team released their source code to developers, receiving less than enthusiastic reviews. According to the guys, however, dev feedback has been extremely helpful when it comes to fixing bugs and security holes. … In the meantime, however, we have to wonder if it will succeed. Facebook – despite the previous security crisis – is still going strong, and the alternative social network market is becoming more competitive…”
Gerrit Eicker 08:31 on 19. August 2011 Permalink |
TR: “Respekt vor der Privatsphäre hat in sozialen Netzwerken selten Priorität. Das Open-Source-Projekt Diaspora soll das ändern. Mitgründer Maxwell Salzberg erklärt, wie Vernetzung auch ohne übermächtigen Zentraldienst funktioniert: … ‘Wir arbeiten an einem föderalen System, das die vielen kleinen und oft sehr spezialisierten Netz-Communities enger verbindet. Mein ehemaliger Zimmergenosse zum Beispiel ist ein Audio-Freak, er treibt sich immer in Foren herum, in denen ausschließlich über handgearbeitete deutsche Lautsprecher diskutiert wird. Die Leute sollen die in einem Forum ausgetauschten Informationen auch woanders einspeisen können – wenn sie es wollen. Unsere Software, die ja Open Source ist, soll es den Communities erlauben, auf ganz individuelle Weise Inhalte mit anderen zu teilen. … Bei Facebook ist der Nutzer völlig abhängig von der zentralen Seite. In unserem dezentralen Modell sind all die Foren und Communities im Netz wie kleine Daten-Silos, die ihre Einzigartigkeit bewahren – aber miteinander kommunizieren. … Es ist doch abwegig, seine gesamten Daten wie bei Facebook einer zentralen Plattform zu überantworten. Um Zugang zu deiner Community zu bekommen, musst du alles ausliefern und die Bedingungen des Anbieters schlucken, der wiederum keinerlei Gegenleistung erbringt. Immer mehr Leute fühlen sich da zu Recht betrogen.‘”