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Q: A post has just gone up on Diaspora’s blog revealing what the project actually looks like for the first time. While it’s not yet ready to be released to the public, the open-source social networking project is giving the world a glimpse of what it looks like today and also releasing the project code, as promised. 
  
 At first glance, this preview version of Diaspora looks sparse, but clean. Oddly enough, with its big pictures and stream, it doesn’t look unlike Apple’s new Ping music social network mixed with yes, Facebook. A few features they note: 
  
 Share status messages and photos privately and in near real time with your friends through “aspects”. 
  
 Friend people across the Internet no matter where Diaspora seed is located. 
  
 Manage friends using “aspects” 
  
 Upload of photos and albums 
  
 All traffic is signed and encrypted (except photos, for now). 
  
 But no matter what Diaspora looks like now, the point is to have many different versions hosted all over the place. Some will look different than others — so it make sense to have a simple, clean base to build off of. 
  
 The team notes that the public alpha of the project is still on course for October, and will include Facebook integration off the bat, as well as data portability. 
  
 “Getting the source into the hands of developers is our first experiment in making a simple and functional tool for contextual sharing. Diaspora is in its infancy, but our initial ideas are there,” the team writes today. “Much of our focus this summer was centered around publishing content to groups of your friends, wherever their seed may live. It is by no means bug free or feature complete, but it an important step for putting us, the users, in control,” they continue. 
  
 Diaspora is a particularly interesting project because it was first unveiled at a time when Facebook was facing a lot of user backlash due to privacy issues and changes being made. This helped the project raise over $200,000 in crowd-sourced funding via Kickstarter. 
  
 Of course, Facebook continues to grow and is now well past 500 million users, as much of the controversy that existed a few months ago has died down — as expected. The project also faces the hurdle of trying to popularize an open source project — these projects often sound great on paper, but doesn’t work too well in practice. That said, Diaspora is still interesting, and we’re rooting for these guys to pull it off. 
  
 Developers, get building — you can find the code on github here. But note their warning: ||||| Image caption The screenshots reveal a familiar look 
  
 Developers have been given their first glimpse of a community-funded and open alternative to Facebook. 
  
 Diaspora describes itself as a "privacy-aware, personally-controlled" social network. 
  
 It was conceived earlier this year by four US students during a period when Facebook came under fire for its privacy settings. 
  
 The open-source project has now released its first code to developers and also published screenshots. 
  
 "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," the team said in a blog. 
  
 Many of the features shown on the site will be familiar to people already on social networks such as Facebook, including the ability to share messages, photos and status updates. 
  
 The team said they are currently working to integrate the site with Facebook and to make it easy for people to take control of and move their personal data. 
  
 They aim to launch the first public product in October. 
  
 Privacy win 
  
 Their idea of building Diaspora started earlier this year during a period of intense criticism of Facebook, the world's largest social network. 
  
 The site, which boast 500 million members, was criticised for having overly complex and confusing privacy settings. It was eventually forced to roll out simplified controls. 
  
 "We want to put users back in control of what they share," Max Salzberg, one of the founders of Diaspora, told BBC News at the time. 
  
 If Facebook genuinely see this as a threat or see that people really like it as an idea, it may influence what they do for privacy Nate Elliott, Analyst, Forrester 
  
 The team turned to the fundraising site Kickstarter to raise funds to build the network, eventually raising $200,642 from nearly 6,500 people. 
  
 Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, reportedly donated to the project. 
  
 The launch of the first code marks a milestone for the project. However, the team warned that there were still problems to iron out. 
  
 "It is by no means bug-free or feature-complete, but it [is] an important step for putting us, the users, in control," they wrote. 
  
 However, bugs may not be the only challenge the network faces, said Nate Elliott, principal analyst at research firm Forrester. 
  
 "It seems they are simply copying Facebook with a different architecture," he told BBC News. 
  
 "If the only differentiation is around privacy, I can't image they will persuade enough people to move away from Facebook and the network effect it has." 
  
 He said the site was a "great concept" but ideas like "data portability" were difficult to implement. However, he said, it may influence Facebook in other ways. 
  
 "Facebook has been very good at recognising what is good about their competitors and pulling in those best features." 
  
 He said the site had successfully incorporated features from Twitter and location service FourSquare. 
  
 "If Facebook genuinely see this as a threat or see that people really like it as an idea, it may influence what they do for privacy," he said. 
  
 "That would be a win for the [Diaspora] team." 
  
 Others have questioned whether there is too much expectation on the service. 
  
 "While it's possible for four talented computer scientists, in a summer, to make a piece of software that's so compelling and attention-grabbing, not just in theory but in actual use - it's also far from likely," wrote Dave Winer, a US software developer, before the code was released. |||||
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Developers have been given a preview of a site that aims to be a privacy-conscious rival to Facebook. The team behind open-source social networking project Diaspora have released the project's source code. "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," the Diaspora team wrote. The team, which plans to have the project up and running by next month, says it is working on Facebook integration and ways to ensure users stay in control of their data, the BBC reports. The preview version looks a lot like Facebook, "but no matter what Diaspora looks like now, the point is to have many different versions hosted all over the place," MG Siegler notes at TechCrunch. "Some will look different than others—so it make sense to have a simple, clean base to build off of." For earlier Facebook stories, click here.