I’ve mentioned Diaspora before, but the developers recently released a preview of how the site will look. This new “privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network” will most likely pick of the technorati from Facebook when it goes public and if they, as early adopters, and evangelists begin to persuade those with a smidge less technical nous to join we might start to see an exodus. The (fictional) biopic about Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook will likely persuade a few members to abandon the blue-top social network if they feel that it’s even a half-truth in terms of Zuckerberg’s attitude. We’ll see.

Holy Kaw has the first look.

The dev team released the source code for Diaspora on September 15 with the comment that, “This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control. From now on, we will be working closely with the community on improving and solidifying Diaspora.” You can join Diaspora now.

Diaspora perspective

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