Thursday, May 13, 2010

Meet Diaspora, the 'anti-Facebook'

Sick of the barrage of Facebook privacy scandals? Don't trust a multi-billion-dollar corporation with your photos and personal information? Well, there may be an online social network for you yet.

It's called Diaspora, and it's an idea from four New York University students who say in a video pitch that big online companies like Facebook shouldn't be allowed to have access to, and to some degree "own," all of the personal data that flows in and out of their social networks.

The site, which is still in development, has been dubbed "the anti-Facebook" by tech blogs. More Here

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