diaspora

Many governments that are not major tech hubs (i.e., most countries excluding the U.S., China, Israel and India) should stop restricting themselves to supporting locally domiciled VC funds.

Meet Diaspora Ventures, a new VC fund based in the U.S. founded by two partners who grew up in France but have been in the U.S. for more than a decade — Ilan Abehassera (pictured above, right) and C

Late last night, word began to spread around the tech community that one of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/diaspora/">Diaspora</a>'s four co-founders, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/zhitomirskiy

It's been over a year since <a href="http://diasporafoundation.org/">Diaspora</a> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/06/02/diaspora-project/">raised over $200,000</a> towards the creation of an alte

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/appleseed.png" class="shot2" /> Facebook just raised <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/21/facebook-raises-1-5-billion-at-50-billion-val

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/social-networks_-future.jpg"> <em><strong>Editor's note</strong>: This is the third of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist <a hre

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/open-source.jpg" class="shot2" /> Now that <a href="https://joindiaspora.com/">Diaspora</a>, which is building an open-source distributed soc

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-248062" title="iw" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/iw.png" alt="" />We've talked a lot about <a href="http://www.joindiaspora.com/">Diasp

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-247539" title="Screen shot 2010-11-23 at 10.44.25 AM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-23-at-10-44-25-am.png" alt="" /

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-219869" title="aaa" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/aaa2.png" alt="" />A <a href="http://www.joindiaspora.com/2010/09/15/developer-release

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-213783" title="3" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/39.png" alt="" />A few days ago, we noted that <a href="http://joindiaspora.com">Diaspo

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-212696" title="Screen shot 2010-08-26 at 5.15.42 PM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/screen-shot-2010-08-26-at-5-15-42-pm.png" alt="" />R

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-185970" title="a" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/a.png" alt="" />When <a href="http://www.joindiaspora.com/">Diaspora</a> set out to rai

<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-180066" title="d" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/d.jpg" alt="" />Whenever a service rises to popularity, an "open" alternative is usuall