Hi Thanks Ritesh, this is really really good news.
This has been a much reviewed and anticipated release specially for all those concerned with privacy issues on the other Cloud software like facebook. Some additional links are below for people wanting to know more about it http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/360928/_facebook_killer_diaspora_source_code_released_alpha_due_october/ Am looking forward to it and maybe will use it just to kick some face ;-) Am top posting since its not a reply to Ritesh's mail 0 which is in its entirety below regards ram On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Ritesh Sinha <sinha.k.rit...@gmail.com> wrote: > For those of you who haven't heard, the first developer preview of > Diaspora has been released. It's social networking software that > allows you to be in control of your own data (cf: Facebook/Orkut). The > concept is of "seeds" or individual deployments of this software that > can talk to each other, so say a diaspora user in India can connect > with someone in the USA irrespective of what "seed" they're connected > to. You can find out more from: http://www.joindiaspora.com/ > > In the code provided there is a Ubuntu installation script. However > this didn't work for me (no idea why, it breaks at line 30). I wrote a > simpler version of it which should do the trick. For Lucid, this > should work out of the box. For other releases you need to change the > RELEASE variable at the top to 9.10 for Karmic, 9.4 for Jaunty etc. > This is for installing MongoDB automatically (more info here: > http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Ubuntu+and+Debian+packages) > > Script to install Diaspora: http://pastebin.ca/1942738 > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
