Has anyone thought about this new social media platform?

The internet will fill to choking point with a plethora of “MEs”
The more of you out there solo, the harder to find you.

Diaspora

I was not able to find out earlier if the new Diaspora uses unique individual clouds that would each be secure enough as I.D.s for e-commerce or m-commerce, or if Diaspora uses a cloud engine like OnApp?

What do you mean by a “unique cloud”? That terminology does not make sense to me.

koanhead, the cloud could be identified as “unique” because each individual’s cloud would have a unique combination of historical activity plus links to other clouds within the network plus perhaps some unique code or tag.

@cstromeyer – What is a “cloud” as used here? Is it an AWS instance or similar? I think you are using the word in a way that is unfamiliar to me (thus “clouding the issue ;^)
When I think of “cloud computing” I think of services running in virtual machines implemented in a clustered host. I suppose the clustering part is more or less optional, but the instances certainly need to be scalable (even if the services contained therein aren’t necessarily.)
Can you clarify what you mean by a “cloud”?

Diaspora is not really a “cloud” technology AFAIK, just a distributed peer-to-peer system. Certainly it could be implemented in a VM on the user’s machine, rendering it somewhat “cloudlike”, but all that really is necessary is a webserver, MongoDB and Rails. BTW I was subscribed to the diaspora-dev list until very recently, so I have some recent idea what’s going on in the dev community there.
Here’s a link for anyone interested in those discussions:

http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev/topics

It may require a Google ID for access.

koanhead, thanks for your helpful answer. There are already a variety of companies which let individual people or firms set up their own “personal cloud” – depending upon which definition is being considered. My idea is analogous to Cisco’s vision of the “inter-cloud” except that my idea is based upon a network concept because nothing grows faster than a network effect grown virally and organically from the bottom up.

To make social networking secure, efficient and productive for the business and/or government sectors, one might consider a Federated Cloud version of my idea with some kind of control panel for managers.

Earlier, I had the idea for a (possibly social) network of interconnected clouds, and then the startup company Compiled Networks and I separately started thinking about implementing some kind of virtual switch to make this possible. Neither of us made much progress, but now this Silicon Valley startup company named Vcider has launched their on demand distributed virtual switch product for enabling a virtual Network as a Service (NaaS), and in their blog they explain how to set up one’s own private cloud and then interconnect it to any other type of cloud:

http://www.vcider.com