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For all of those of you out there who are interested in owning your information again, please check out a new project being developed by four NYU students called diaspora*.

Diaspora will allow you to take back control of your social networking data by allowing you to run your own instance of its service on your personal computer/home server. For more information about what it will do, check their project page. You have to give these guys credit for using a Back to the Future reference in their prospectus.

As you might know, I am an ever bigger advocate for open source projects that actually serve to put control into users’ hands and to sate that DIY spirit that so many people have. This is a project that I am very enthused about. If you have ten bucks lying around and want to help out a project that has the potential to change the way we do social networking online, then give it to these guys. Click on their project below to get involved through Kickstarter.