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That's how I see it too, more as a sign of the times than as the project that will go and kill facebook.

Time will tell, good luck from me.

I was just thinking that their name is fantastic. It conveys such a strong meaning: "we can't be all in one place anymore but we still relate". Maybe it's not a web2.0 buzz name, but at least I immediatly remembered it.

I agree. I was mentioning this project to a guy at work but couldn't remember the name. He was intrigued by the idea but that's where it ended. I'm sure as it gets more popular and I start hearing i more often I'll be able to remember it though a good name up front could help pick up steam early on.

> [...] but I agree with a lot of others about the name - they should definitely change it to something easier to spell and say.

Is diaspora hard to pronounce in English?