Category Archives: Internet

Diaspora experiences, part III

Things move on with Diaspora, the open-source-future-replacement-of-facebook. Diaspora is now the most ‘trending repository’ in GitHub Cross-seed friending starts to work here and there, someone figured out that the primary port to connect is 443 and 80 is used as … Continue reading

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Diaspora experiences, part II

After playing around with Diaspora for a day or two, some new quick thoughts. The Start In April/May, four students announced that they will build an open-source social network. People were able to donate money for that. Very quickly they got … Continue reading

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Diaspora review – first experiences UPDATED

Diaspora, the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network (project) has now released it’s source code, as expected. HURRAY!!!!!! Read more at Diaspora Blog. I was able to register to one of the installations people have made today, … Continue reading

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Reviewing my Facebook friend lists

As a reaction to my previous post, step-by-step guide to Facebook privacy settings I though to actually check the settings for myself too and start by creating friend lists. It seems to smarter create & control lists for people who … Continue reading

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Facebook privacy settings review 09/2010

I was asked to recap the current status of Facebook security settings. New features keep coming  every now and then and the default privacy settings might not always please the users, this was the case with the recent ‘Places’ feature. … Continue reading

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