diaspora

Mark Suster made some interesting predictions on the future of social networking at the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, not all of which I agree with.I’ve summarised some of his thoughts, and added my own predictions at the end of this blog.1. “I don’t believe users or society as a ...

Nobody would argue that the mammoth social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Qzone – boasting almost a billion users between them – currently dominate the social networking world. But 2011 is likely to see a considerable change in the way that users approach their social interactions.2010 saw the major ...

The issue of privacy online has and always will be contentious. Since the explosion of the internet in the 90’s, our lives are increasingly spending online. With the arrival of social networking, this trend has increased exponentially. Privacy has and always will be a necessity for people, but when you're ...

Diaspora, the open source social network that puts user privacy above all else, is now rolling out in private alpha. The question is: can it hold its own against Facebook, or MySpace, or even Ning?  Early indications seem to indicate that the answer is no.Although Facebook has run into backlash ...

Back in those heady early days of the web, before big media houses deigned to spend money online, the uncool kids, the freaks and geeks, were the netizens of this somewhat anarchic medium. With chatrooms dedicated to obscure role-playing games and forum flame wars over who shot first, they reigned ...