Facebook rival Diaspora announces launch date

Diaspora, the open-source alternative to Facebook that was announced in the wake of Facebook's privacy mess early this summer, has confirmed it will launch on 15 September. The "privacy-aware, personally-controlled" social network, is being created by four student friends from New York who sought to finance the project through funding site Kickstarter. Initially, the four hoped to raise around $10,000 to subsidise their efforts over the summer. The group's...