The Glade 4.0

Google+ hasn't even really gotten their wheels turning, yet. Don't be so quick to write it off.

I'm wondering if Google+ will become less 'Facebook-y', but I don't expect it to go away.

Also, if you can give any amount at all, we’ll be sure to get you an invitation to join us at joindiaspora.com right away. (Just to be clear, you’ll still get your invitation regardless. But if you make a gift, we’ll get it to you now, so you won’t have to wait any longer.)

I could definitely see this, if only because I see it adding many more features so that "walls for you to post on" stops being the defining characteristic.

Heck, you could already make a pretty good argument that it's already usurped Picasa in Google's product lineup.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/google-announces-q3-earnings-9-72-billion-revenue/

Google earnings report in which it's mentioned that there are 40+ million Google+ users and that, "people are flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate."

Look, I understand that there's a difference between total registered users and total active users. Point is, Google+ is still growing faster than anyone expected it to and it's not going anywhere if the earnings report is to be believed.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of four co-founders of social network Diaspora, died over the weekend at age 22.
Zhitomirskiy committed suicide, a source close to the company confirmed to CNNMoney.
Diaspora -- positioned as an open-source, decentralized alternative to Facebook -- came into public view last year. Zhitomirskiy and three other New York University students announced the project on April 24, 2010, seeking donations through microfunding site Kickstarter.

The founders surpassed their $10,000 fundraising goal in 12 days, and they raised a total of $200,000 from 6,500 donors in 39 days -- including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

The Diaspora announcement was well-timed, as it launched while Facebook was dealing with bad press about its confusing privacy controls. Diaspora also raised money from high-profile venture capitalists including Fred Wilson.
Diaspora posted its source code in September 2010 and launched a commercial version of its network a few weeks later. But after that, the buzz began to fade.

A Diaspora blog post last month pleaded for more donations, but on October 19 the cofounders said "PayPal mysteriously and arbitrarily decided to freeze everyone's donations." PayPal later said it had released the funds.
Over the weekend, dozens of people commented on the news of Zhitomirskiy's death -- first reported by TechCrunch -- via a forum on startup incubator Y Combinator's site.

"Ilya was an incredible person," wrote one user. "His heart was truly driven by bringing about positive change in this world. Diaspora was only the beginning."