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Diaspora is a distributed, open source social network being developed by four New York University students (Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, and Raphael Sofaer) and will be launched on September 15. Diaspora runs anywhere since each computer or “seed” is owned and hosted by the user. They have total control over what information is shared and with whom. GPG encryption will also ensure that no matter what kind of content is being shared, it can be done so privately and securely.

They aim to address the privacy concerns that has put Facebook under fire by giving users complete control of their details and content and who they share it with. Through the use of a personal web server called a Diaspora “seed”, users will be able to securely share information, pictures, video and more. The users scrape and hold their own data. The user’s seed is his/her own web service. All the friends will have permission based “friend keys” to access the user’s information.

It will also aggregate all information from the other social networking services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. The Diaspora team plans to make the service available a few months after the end of summer and those interested in their progress can keep up to date via their website www. joindiaspora.com.

The students raised their money on an online site, Kickstarter that helps creative people find support.