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Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed
jamie writes "A post has just gone up on Diaspora's blog revealing what the project actually looks like for the first time. While it's not yet ready to be released to the public, the open-source social networking project is giving the world a glimpse of what it looks like today and also releasing the project code, as promised. At first glance, this preview version of Diaspora looks sparse, but clean. Oddly enough, with its big pictures and stream, it doesn't look unlike Apple's new Ping music social network mixed with yes, Facebook."
Cite your sources. http://tiny.cc/5ipel says that although the middle aged demographic is growing most rapidly, the 0-24 bracket is by no means shrinking. Having said that, parent's parent is certainly correct in saying that facebook is the place that "old people" use.
Profit needn't be monetary. Profit is merely a goal. Substitute any goal at the end - such as the goal to "create and open source social networking experience", and you still have the same simple truth: somewhere between product creation and the end goal there is a big void where these guys don't seem to have much of a plan outside of "hand it out and see what happens", which is rarely a smart strategy.
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