As promised, open source social network and Facebook alternative Diaspora
released its source code yesterday. And while it's a developer release
meant to be hacked on and is by no means a finished, there are already
of plenty of predictions that Diaspora will fail - or at the least, that the project represents no threat to Facebook.
Diaspora is hardly unique as a startup that faces major challenges by entering into a market or an industry where big companies are well-established.
On a recent TechZing podcast, for example, hosts Jason Roberts and Justin Vincent asked Gabriel Weinberg, founder of the search engine DuckDuckGo if being in the same realm as Google "isn't that, like, crazy?" But as Weinberg points out, he's able to "do things that Google can't copy easily." For example, DuckDuckGo is able to delivery more satisfactory search results than Google, contends Weinberg, because he can actively address questions of spam without facing charges of censorship or anti-trust - something Google can't do because of its size.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Startup Versus Goliath: When Your Competition is a Giant
Author: Audrey Watters
