 | Remember Diaspora, the open source competitor to Facebook? Yesterday they have started sending out invites for the private alpha. The invites will initially be sent to the 6500 people who helped them raise $200,000 in a month. After that they will start sending out invites to those on the mailing list. |
 | The “Facebook competitor” is finally here. Yesterday, the Diaspora source code was released for everyone to use, hack and run it on their own server. If you are using Ubuntu, Fedora or Mac OSX, the Diaspora team already has instructions on you can run it in your machine. If you do not want to bother… |
 | As expected, the Diaspora team has released the source code and posted screenshots of Diaspora as it stands now. It is not ready for public usage yet, but they have released the source code so that interested developers can play around with it. |
| Diaspora becomes available to developers from September 15. Users will, however, have to wait for the alpha in October. |
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