{"id":21518,"date":"2010-08-28T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/facebook_alternative_diaspora_eyes_launch_date\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T21:00:20","slug":"facebook_alternative_diaspora_eyes_launch_date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21518","title":{"rendered":"Facebook alternative Diaspora eyes launch date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on 15 September, the developers of the project have said.<\/p>\n<p>Diaspora describes itself as a &#8220;privacy-aware, personally-controlled&#8221; social network.<\/p>\n<p>The open-source project made headlines earlier this year when Facebook was forced to simplify its privacy settings, after they were criticised for being overly complex and confusing.<\/p>\n<p>The project, developed by four US students, raised $200,000 (\u00c2\u00a3140,000).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-11108891\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on 15 September, the developers of the project have said. Diaspora describes itself as a &#8220;privacy-aware, personally-controlled&#8221; social network. The open-source project made headlines earlier this year when Facebook was forced to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21518\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,433,94,589,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}