Diaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September.
Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, open source social network”, the Diaspora project has been driven by four impossibly fresh-faced New York students – three computer scientists and a mathematician – who have so far raised $200,000 (£140,000) in funding.
With the newly announced Facebook Places already sending the eyebrows of privacy campaigners arcing skywards, a nifty new infographic has appeared highlighting Facebook’s less than illustrious track record on privacy.
Posting on the official Facebook blog, Michael Sharon, Facebook product manager has added more detail to their new Places functionality, enthusiastically introducing it as a feature that lets you tell your friends about new places and inform them where you are.
Breaking at an unfeasibly early hour this morning is the hot news that Facebook is launching its long-rumoured location-aware, check-in product, called Places.
The new service sees Facebook partnering with Gowalla and Foursquare, with representatives from the two rival services taking the stage at a special event at Palo Alto, California at 2am UK time.
Twitter has announced that they’re unleashing their very own ‘Tweet Button’ on the world, which lets you share links directly from a web page you’re perusing.
Although there’s no shortage of excellent Twitter apps for the Android platform (Twidroid, Seesmic, Touiteur and Tweetcaster being our favourites), iPhone big hitters TweetDeck reckon they’ve some big tricks up their sleeves to make a real splash in the market.
Facebook has finally announced the addition of advanced privacy settings for mobiles, so that users can control who’s sneaking a-peek at their updates.
It seems that employees who spend their work time uploading status updates, posting up amusing photos and Tweeting about the minutiae of their boring work days are costing British businesses billions.
The official Android Facebook app has lagged behind the iPhone version for yonks, but it seems that the folks at the social networking uber-site are slowly waking up to the growing popularity of the platform.
Social networking is now the most popular pastime in the UK with nearly 30 million UK residents spending over 6 hours on social media sites like Facebook or MySpace every month.
Although Google apparently waved a $550m wad in the direction of Yelp last year, they found themselves turned down by the local search, social networking and user review site.
That decision may prove to be a bit of a whoopsie for Yelp, seeing as Google has just charged straight into the heart of their core business with the release of Google Places, which comes bundled with Google Maps for mobile v4.4.
You can’t go wrong with a nice colourful infographic, so what better way to show off Facebook’s achievement of signing up its 500 million member than with a mouse wheel-troubling monster graphic?
Google is reportedly set to launch its own social networking service Google Me, but it won’t be the first time the search giant has tried to elbow its way into the space currently occupied by the likes of Facebook and MySpace.
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Diaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September.
Breaking at an unfeasibly early hour this morning is the hot news that Facebook is launching its long-rumoured location-aware, check-in product, called Places.
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