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On the one hand, I think the aspect of Diaspora-the principles of user-controlled content (i.e. It's mine, and I use it however I want vs. It's mine, but it's o
by iamdave 16y ago
On the one hand, I think the aspect of Diaspora-the principles of user-controlled content (i.e. It's mine, and I use it however I want vs. It's mine, but it's on their infrastructure) is great.
On the other hand, I think that banking the success of their product based on the premise that "we are the anti" Facebook is dangerous, possibly lethal. Build what people want, cater it to their wants; don't spend your campaign time telling us what the other guy ISN'T doing.
- glhaynes 16y agoYeah, seems like Facebook is in a position to gain by making some highly publicized moves toward assuring privacy... get that in a couple of news cycles and people will assume it's a fixed-enough problem (whether it is or not).
- docgnome 16y agoI don't know that I agree. StackOverflow become popular by being the Anti-ExpertsExchange. The elevator pitch was literally "Experts Exchange with out the evil" and they seem to be doing quite well.
- astine 16y agoI don't know, Facebook did pretty well by being the anti-Myspace.