Alternative Social Networks

Since facebook has been in the Media for the last couple of weeks alternative Social Networks seem to see their chance to offer a decentralized, distributed, open-source network (peer-to-peer technology). In other words there is no large corporation or one single person who owns your data. Instead every User in the Network owns his or her own Data.

One such Network that has been very present in the media the last few days is diaspora. Their Idea is interesting and they found enough people to back the idea financially. They needed about $ 10.000. On May 13^th they already had $ 50.000 in funding. A short while after that they had $ 100.000 in funding. As of today they already have more than 180.000 in funding [click]