looks great!

Beautiful

I couldn't help but notice you used the Framers as your six users.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing Diaspora in action.

Video-editing - do it. :)

cool!! for the UI maybe you can take inspiration from this one tinyurl.com/ydgyxaq (it was a possible facebook redesign that never happened)

Pretty cool! But... please please PLEASE, start using a screen recorder :P

i'm sure you can buy/borrow a camera tripod from someone...

Ahhh! What a refreshing change from Facebook. Can't wait for Diaspora!

so cool! i am quite excited

Seems like you used a tripod, but placed it on the same table that you were using for your keyboards, so the image shook anyway. Put the tripod on the floor! ;-)
Great work on the actual project, though!

Waiting for it! :D

I see you're using google chrome... so you are probably using the new html5 javascript socket api ( dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ ) that is actually supported only by chromium

However i think that this kind of solution is not user-friendly... imagine if someone is reading a long post and, while he's reading, some new posts appear and push the text below... and now imagine if this happens again and again... it will become impossible and frustrating to read something... I think you should use a feature like twitter.... where you get the count of all the new messages (from when you opened the page) and only by explicitely clicking some kind of button somewhere you'll show all the new messages stream...
I'm sorry for my awful english... I hope the concept is clear enough.

Anyway it seems that you're doing a wonderful job! I can't wait to see the first release ;)
It's wonderful to see a small group of young people that is able to do such a great thing!
Guys, I hope you the best ;)

How well does it work when you have 4000 friends?

I can't wait for this, but you guys know it doesn't have to look like Facebook, right? Take a look at this:
informationarchitects.jp/ias-2006-facebook-designs-redesigned/

I'm excited for this project, but maybe a tripod or duct tape the webcam next time :)

remember that the community gave them 200k, they did not ask for it. so enough with the "you'd think with 200k, you could do such-and-such" comments, ok? this was only ever supposed to be a 15k summer project, and it's unfair to expect that just because the community was overzealous with their donations, that they will treat it as anything other than what they originally had in mind.

Very impressive... It's remember me the GoogleWave! ;)