Tag: diaspora
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What Diaspora (and everybody else) can learn from Google+ (DRAFT)
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What Diaspora can learn about security from Microsoft
Back in April, four NYU students decided to raise money to spend the summer hacking on their project: a privacy-friendly open source social network. They put up a page on Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding site. Talk about being in the right place at the right time: after a great article Four nerds and a cry…
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What can Diaspora learn about security from Microsoft? (REVISED DRAFT)
It’s counter-intuitive to think of Microsoft as a poster child for security — or as a role model for Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, open-source, do-it-all social networkâ€. But the security mess Microsoft created back in the 1990s, the progress they’ve made since 2001, and the challenges they continue to face all provide some interesting lessons…
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What can Diaspora learn about security from Microsoft? (FIRST DRAFT)
It’s counter-intuitive to think of Microsoft as a poster child for security. But the progress they’ve made since 2001 along with the challenges they continue to face have a lot of lessons for anybody in this space — including Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, open-source, do-it-all social networkâ€.
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Diaspora: what next?
It was a summer to remember for the founders of Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, open-source, do-it-all social network”. Talk about being in the right place at the right time … Back in the firestorm about Facebook privacy last May, the four NYU students raised $200,000 for their project on Kickstarter. Since then they’ve moved to…