Creating a Better Facebook

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 12, 2010 @01:31AM from the empty-is-not-god dept.

Fed up with Facebook's insatiable need to continue to expose your personal information to ever widening circles, four NYU students have decided to build an open source, distributed competitor to the social networking behemoth. They've raised a few grand, but I imagine it will be harder to convince your mom to log in.

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Re:Social networks by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-12 01:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey buddy, how's it feel to be back up to posting all the way up at zero again!? You don't have negative karma anymore ... but you're not quite positive yet. Keep up the "Microsoft rocks, you all suck" message and maybe you'll make it!
You Underestimate Your Mom by organgtool · 2010-05-12 01:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

but I imagine it will be harder to convince your mom to log in.
You'd be surprised at how easy it is for your mom to "log in".
1. Re:You Underestimate Your Mom by Pojut · 2010-05-12 01:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  You'd be surprised at how easy it is for your mom to "log in".
  I don't know about that...your mom expressed difficulty in getting my log in.
  "I hope it doesn't load too fast!"
  "Don't worry, baby."
  
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2. Re:You Underestimate Your Mom by Chrisq · 2010-05-12 02:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  You'd be surprised at how easy it is for your mom to "log in".
  I don't know about that...your mom expressed difficulty in getting my log in.
  "I hope it doesn't load too fast!" "Don't worry, baby."
  Don't worry, I've given her a magnifying glass. She should have better luck next time.
3. Re:You Underestimate Your Mom by Pojut · 2010-05-12 02:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  pfft. She would need a portable electron microscope. lol, you thought a magnifying glass would be eno-
  Oh wait. You were talking about me.
  
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Original idea! No, wait... by Bazman · 2010-05-12 02:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Umm, Google Open Social?
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
"OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds. "
Re:Hmmmmmm........ by Sporkinum · 2010-05-12 06:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sounds kinda funny, but it's really brown and runny.

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