I think a project like Diaspora failed because they chose to write it in Ruby on Rails. Ruby is nice from a purist point of view. But you'd want to build someth

I think a project like Diaspora failed because they chose to write it in Ruby on Rails. Ruby is nice from a purist point of view. But you'd want to build something like this on top of a language which is popular, accessible, has a low learning curve and can be easily deployed anywhere.