Everyone wants to kill Facebook for privacy exposure (again). But this time it seems the problem has reached the mainstream, complete with a Time cover. The Diaspora project got lots of publicity from this, but I’m afraid they won’t fare much better than the others (don’t feel bad if you didn’t know there were others).
Open source contenders should avoid thinking Facebook is just a piece of software (or that just having a working piece of software is enough); they should also refudiate the myth of the “global village”.
