I finally decided to try out myspace/facebook. I found that myspace was too full of ads for my taste. I don’t like facebook, either.
I’m thinking of an alternative. Maybe I’ll set up my own server on my computer and let people create accounts or something. Has anyone tried this?
Yes a guy named mark zuckerberg has tried that. It worked relatively well for him.
Do you happen to know if he is on the Suse forum, and if so, what his username is? I’m not looking for someone to do the work for me; I just need a few pointers.
dan8029 wrote:
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> Do you happen to know if he is on the Suse forum, and if so, what his
> username is? I’m not looking for someone to do the work for me; I just
> need a few pointers.
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I think you missed the sarcasm. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of facebook.
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There are a few, pip.io and linkedin are the most notable. It’s very very hard to draw people from Facebook unless you have a specialized audience. pip has a large user base in China and linkedin is for networking. Do you have any group in mind?
Orkut Twitter Foursquare LiveJournal…and FINALLY Square Street (LOL)
PS: Myspace will release a new version much very like mtv/facebook
Alternative? Sure, face 2 face. Or if you need technology messaging is the king.:sarcastic:
If you really consider to setup something like facebook on your own for a
special purpose. There exists at least commercial software which provides
this (socialgroupie.com). I have no clue if it is good or not, just wondered
if there is something and found that.
I do not know if something similar is available as free software.
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You may want to have a look at this
http://www.boonex.com/
Free Community Software
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I wanted to get people to move to Buzz but Facebook users are just not going to move not matter what you do. I would love to get off Facebook but too many friends and relatives use it. I hate it but want to stay connected to them. This is a dilemma for me.
Diaspora is supposed to be a free alternative, but I think it’s not quite ready yet.
Diaspora isn’t there yet. I was one of it’s kickstarter sponsors. It’s going to have it’s own issues as you host your own information on your own machine. Some people just are not going to be able to configure it. It’s going to be a server on your own machine.
On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:36:01 +0530, FlameBait
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> Diaspora isn’t there yet. I was one of it’s kickstarter sponsors. It’s
> going to have it’s own issues as you host your own information on your
> own machine. Some people just are not going to be able to configure it.
> It’s going to be a server on your own machine.
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i can’t properly remember, but i thought not everybody needed their own
server–one server can host more than one person. i imagine that typically
websites could offer that to their users, who could move their data around
to other providers if they wanted. i didn’t look at the project’s code
recently, but when i did last, there were an awful lot of requirements for
the server, and i couldn’t see myself trying to configure my (shared
account) webhost to meet those.
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IIRC the code was shot down in flames when they went public. The project developers are back to the drawing board, so I’ve heard. Pity, I was looking forward to use something non-Facebook.
Uwe
MySpace onced a fever, now most people moved to Facebook. Some in a coming days, Facebook will have the same fate as MySpace, imo.
In the documentary The Virtual Revolution, a study of Facebook found that people with thousands of “friends” are actually outliers. The median Facebook user has only a dozen contacts. The real danger of Facebook is not that people are getting lots of “friends”, but that they are hooking themselves up into a feedback loop which keeps them in front of their screen or portable device all the time and they show symptoms of withdrawal if denied access.
A general comment not aimed at Flamebait. My take on this is that keeping in touch with everybody all the time isn’t healthy. Some things have to be done alone, e.g. learning to play music, reading a book, etc.
I spend from five to ten minutes a day on Facebook and can do without it entirely. Buzz doesn’t have limitations on text length and the other horse manure Facebook has. People want something they can use with their smartphone. I don’t even have a data plan on my phone.
Just stumbled upon gNewBook (Beta), a self-described “Free (Libre) Social Network”. Anyone have any experience with it?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:06:02 +0000, powerw00t wrote:
> MySpace onced a fever, now most people moved to Facebook. Some in a
> coming days, Facebook will have the same fate as MySpace, imo.
It’ll take some time, as Facebook currently has about half a billion
users worldwide.
Jim
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I agree with you about that. Specially seeing this strange behavior in the facebook platform.
Note that the both accounts were created today, both were created from my PC (one in the host OS (ubuntu 10.10) and the other in the guest OS (opensuse 11.3)), and no one of them have “friends” in their lists. Also the person I tried to add is my college best friend. Also note that I logged in first the account displayed in the host system and then I opened the VM and logged into the other facebook account from the VM.
