Diaspora – anti-facebook p2p social network

Diaspora is the latest hype from the social networking world set to rival facebook by giving authority to its users. Amidst facebook privacy issues leading to a backtracking by the 500 million user network today, Diaspora is getting more and more attention. Four techies from New York University are out to challenge the idea that social networking requires a central hub in order to connect their users.

The founders Maxwell Salzberg, Daniel Grippi, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy developed an opensource algorithm that allow you to connect directly with your friends/ connections via your device. No matter whether its your Android, Blackberry or iPhone smartphone, your laptop or home desktop or iPad tablet computer, Diaspora will allow you to host your conversations yourself and give you complete control over what you want to share and ultimately your privacy.. It remains to be seen if you’ll be able to bypass the corporate work pc, but that should also be easier to do then it is to get pass the firewall blocks that some organizations employ.

The company is funded via Kickstarter and reached their target of $10,000 within just 12 days and has to date raised more than $125,000 in little over a month. The web is full of supporters and over 4,600 interested users have signed up to the beta. The site or shall we say service is announced to launch in September 2010 and the hype seem nearly unstoppable. It remains to seen if the young team can live up to its promise and come in to take over market share in the social media space.

Well we at gadgetgybe can only say well done Dispora for A choosing a great name and B for coming out at exactly the time where people are questioning the authoritative approach to privacy by the world most popular social network facebook.