January 22nd, 2011

Facebook Just Landed $1.5B; Open Source Alternative Struggles To Raise $10,000

Facebook just raised $1.5 billion at a $50 billion valuation, having secured just south of $2.4 billion since the company was founded.

Contrast that with The Appleseed Project, which aims to establish an open source, fully distributed and decentralized social networking software suite to rival Facebook.

I just got an email from the project’s lead developer, Michael Chisari, prompting me to… → Read More