Other projects

Similar and Related Projects

Federated Social Networking

Projects in the same broad technology space as Diaspora.

• OStatus
  • rstat.us
  • StatusNet
  • Identi.ca
• Friendika using the Distributed Friends and Relations Network protocol
• GNU social
  • daisycha.in
• Appleseed
• buddycloud channels

FreedomBox Foundation

Diaspora was inspired by Eben Moglen's talk about the FreedomBox. Now he's established his own foundation to make it happen.

• http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
• Eben moglen interview
• Eben moglen - Freedom in The Cloud

Rails Projects

• EngineY - A Rails-based Social Networking and Content Management Framework

Other interesting articles

ProjectComparison

http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/03/10/social-games-look-to-outgrow-facebook/

Netention