ucentric

Excellent, want work?

Nice!

No blowhard, just a cool service.

Want some work?

richardlauren@me.com

I think that this advice only applies to commercial sites. I have several personal domains such as Richard.sDoma.in and Richard.sMyNa.me which are far superior to any .com domain name.

Personal users are only just starting to get into having a personal URL to hosting their own id and blog etc. and with over 2 billion internet users and only around 140million registered domains, I think attitudes will change quickly. At least for the personal user.

Actually it can mean that you alienate your friends and family, harm your health, fail to provide for yourself in retirement, miss out on other opportunities and miss out on a life in general.

These are pretty big sacrifices.

Nice Ad! This is a sales-pitch for a CMS that costs huge$$ when you can get the same thing from Joomla ect for free with a massive selection of free and commercial extensions.

Everything Google do is strategic and usually has little if anything to do with their publicly stated aims. For example, Android, recaptcha, OpenID...

The replies here show that Fb have done a good job of making privacy settings confusing.

Because we are the people pushing the bubble to the point of busting. Entrepreneurs with all their faults are a necessary evil, if you consider us such.

We chart the newest frontiers.Taking risks with our lives, our finances and our futures in the vain hope we will make the world an ever-so-slightly better place in which to live.

Yes most of us fail, but does that mean we don't deserve our own spotlight, voice or recognition for - at the very least - trying?

I am sorry but I don't find it all that appealing personally. It is not really catch or memorable and gives no hint as to what your site is about.

Try expanding your search to include the non-std tlds as it is still possible to secure a great name. For example communic.do is available from the .do tld and whilst not quite on-message for your site, it is far superior to what you have and is really catchy and memorable.

Ps if you do want that domain let me know and I will advise the registra to release it as we have it reserved but ended up going with innuen.do for our project)

ucentric@hotmail.com

See the latest post on ucentric.org and you will see our reasoning for this opinion.

Very disappointing especially with $200k behind them to do this properly and so many hopeful supporters.

As we predicted this is just another propitiatory system with open source code. Sort of like OpenID.Clever PR but not really what it claims to be.

How do you justify using the 'open' when it is based upon a propitiatory naming system? With Diaspora, whoever owns trydiaspora.com (anyone know who does?) owns your content and connections, meaning you are effectively trusting someone who is hiding their identity. Nice.

We try repeatedly to reach out to the Diaspora team when they kicked-off with an alternative that is 100% open and user-centric called NetID (see http://ucentric.org) but were ignored.

I guess that when you have $200,000 and no one to answer to, you can pretty much ignore your stated goals and anyone trying to help you achieve them.It also looks like that is basically what they are delivering for the $200k they raised as their blog suggests it is now an open project for the community to finish off...

As a side issue, is there any truth in the rumor that Zuckerberg gave them $100K?