by Jim Dwyer
Blackbox Mansion, 251
Blankenhorn, Dana, 171
blogs, 225, 324–26
Bloomberg Businessweek, 332, 333
Blue Coat Systems, 85–86
Breaking Bad, 300
Brooks, Fred, 97–98, 107
browsers, 116–18, 124, 172
Brunton, Finn, 68
bullying, online, 243
Burning Man, 130, 139, 146, 234–35, 245–47, 278–79, 340
BuzzFeed, 136
Bynamite, 63
Cailliau, Robert, 114–15
Canonical, 100
Carrizo, Federico, 143
Cayer, Andrew Charles, 143
Celik, Tantek, 89, 90, 154–55
cell phones, 20
censorship, 81–82, 85, 180
Censorship Research Center, 140
Chan, Perry, 49–50
Chicago Tribune, 59
China, 81, 86, 180
Chrome, 124
Clark, Jim, 117
Clark, Wesley, 237
Clinton administration, 110
Clipper chip, 110
Coleman, Gabriella “Biella,” 28, 34, 52
Collinson, Dennis, 315, 317–19, 321, 325–28, 329, 331, 333, 334
Communida Judia de Murcia, 73
Companys, Yosem E., 57–59, 104–7, 135, 156, 179–80, 186–89, 191–95, 197–98, 209–11, 218–20, 222–26, 227, 229, 230, 235–37, 241, 242, 247, 248–56, 257–65, 267–70, 272–73, 274–76, 280, 281, 285, 339
appointed CEO of Diaspora, 265, 267–68, 270–72, 281–83, 285–86, 291–94
departure from Diaspora, 288–89, 290–95, 301, 316, 332
Salzberg and, 57–59, 271, 274, 281–83, 285–86, 288–89, 290–92, 294
Zhitomirskiy’s funeral and, 317
Computer Emergency Readiness Team, 122
computers, 11, 21, 23, 46
linked, 22–23
power and cost of, 9, 46, 299
Converto, 9
Cook, Blaine, 89–90
Couchsurfing.com, 159
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 32, 33, 36, 69, 152, 167, 176
Craigslist, 236
crowdfunding, 206, 235, 237
Kickstarter, see Kickstarter
data collection, 44, 64, 217, 219, 344
see also surveillance
dating websites, 295–96
Dean, Howard, 156
Diaspora:
alpha release of, 158, 163–64, 172–73, 211, 248, 269
angel investors and, 223, 224, 226, 237, 250–52, 264
anonymity and, 242–45
Arab Spring pod, 179–80
aspects in, 162–63, 217–18, 322
beta release of, 224, 248, 251, 256, 280, 281, 293, 295, 299, 301, 303, 305
blog for, 142, 145, 146, 159, 187
code revisions in, 341, 342, 345
Companys appointed CEO of, 265, 267–68, 270–72, 281–83, 285–86, 291–94
Companys’ departure from, 288–89, 290–95, 301, 316, 332
copyright to code in, 341–42
crowdfunding and, 206, 235, 237; see also Diaspora, Kickstarter campaign of
data deletion in, 253, 303–4
decision to create, 3–5, 12–13
developer release of, 133–34, 136, 138–40, 142–49, 155, 159, 161–63, 172, 211, 339
encryption in, 109, 111, 127, 149
Facebook page for, 142–44, 147, 187
as for-profit corporation, 241–42, 257, 341–42
as for-profit corporation within not-for-profit corporation, 226, 242, 257–58
as foundation, 210–12, 257–58, 339, 346
Free Software Support Network and, 342–43
gender box on profiles in, 172–73
Google+ and, 217–20, 224, 235, 252
hacker summit and, 87–90
interest identification on, 249–50, 274, 275, 295
Kickstarter campaign of, 51–56, 57–59, 64–69, 71–77, 87–89, 92–96, 99, 111–12, 133, 135, 136, 145, 151, 169, 170, 178, 185–86, 189, 200, 202–3, 209–10, 223, 236, 241, 248, 253, 259, 272, 276, 332, 341, 343
Kleiner Perkins and, 58–59, 63, 68, 75, 94, 105, 107, 185–95, 196, 197, 210, 211, 236–38, 259, 262, 268
launch of, 129, 133
meetups for, 156–58, 232, 305, 307–8
meme-generating project and, 334–35
name of, 47
news stream on, 275
New York Times article on, 68–70, 71, 74, 128
online meeting for, 337–40
PayPal account of, 271–72, 274, 280–81
pods of, 225, 242–45, 248, 250, 337
profitability of, 197, 211, 212, 226, 250
Reputation.com and, 216–17, 227–30
reviews of, 171–72
Salzberg as CEO of, 222–23, 259–61, 264–65, 267–68, 271, 272, 281, 286
Schurman’s fund-raising campaign for, 237, 241, 250, 252–54, 268–73, 274
security concerns about, 148–49, 151, 157–58, 163, 180
servers for, 108–9, 163
as social network of personal web pages, 324–28, 329, 332–33
Sofaer’s departure from, 228, 237, 238, 251, 258, 251
start of work on, 45–47
stock shares in, 237, 242, 251, 258, 260, 262–64
Twitter and, 58, 64, 65, 76, 96, 134, 142, 145–46, 187, 254, 280, 294, 296
users of, 99–100, 108, 128, 171, 187, 197, 220, 248–50, 281, 337
venture capitalists and, 196–98, 206, 210, 212, 216, 218, 220, 223–26, 229, 235, 236, 247, 259, 263, 320
welcoming committees on, 249–50, 296
Y Combinator and, 47–49, 51, 55, 329–35
Zhitomirskiy’s departure from and return to, 164, 166, 169, 174, 176–79, 193
Zuckerberg’s donation to, 77, 97, 130, 200
DiasporaFoundation.org, 254, 257, 339
Dicks, Ethan, 123
Doctorow, Cory, 111
Download Squad, 76
Draper, Tim, 105, 219
Dreaming in Code (Rosenberg), 97
Dropbox, 254, 262, 276, 335
drug trade, 299
Dunbar, Robin, 102, 103
Dwyer, Cathy, 68
Dyson, George, 41
Econsultancy, 173
Egypt, 79, 82, 165–66, 179–80, 243
ElBaradei, Mohamed, 165, 166
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), 34, 90–91, 93, 119, 213, 236, 254
Ellison, Larry, 266
e-mail, 88, 232, 344
encryption, 109–11, 127, 140, 141, 149, 276
Engelbart, Douglas, 10–11
Engray, Mike, 73
environmental law, 344
Esguerra, Richard, 90–91
Facebook, 2, 4, 18, 19, 25, 26, 28, 43–44, 63, 69, 88, 93, 94, 101, 103, 105–9, 134, 141, 154, 162, 171, 173, 180, 197, 211, 212, 214, 216, 219, 254, 264, 275, 281, 283, 308, 322–24, 326, 330, 332, 333, 345
anonymity prohibited on, 242, 243, 254
and decision to create Diaspora, 3–5, 12–13, 43–45
deleted material and, 304
design elements of, 322, 328
Diaspora Kickstarter video and, 54
Diaspora page on, 142–44, 147, 187
Farmville on, 232–33
friends on, 103, 104, 162
Grippi and, 2–3, 43, 44, 155, 210, 212
growth of, 12
Kullena Said page on, 79, 165–66
launch of, 170–71, 249
National Security Agency and, 344
privacy and surveillance issues with, 4, 8, 9, 26, 43, 44, 62, 77,
99, 187, 189–90, 218–19, 244, 252
Rogers on, 76–77
Salzberg and, 44, 154, 210, 332
self-censorship on, 10
Sofaer and, 44, 210
Zhitomirskiy and, 35–37, 44, 45, 136–37, 176, 210, 235, 304
Zuckerberg and, 4, 8, 12, 17–19, 59–62, 77, 93, 107, 200, 217, 300, 344
Faris, Rob, 81, 86
Farmville, 232–33
Fashion Institute of Technology, 153
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 10, 64
Federated Social Web, 88
Fenton, Cory, 159
Fertik, Michael, 216–17, 227–30
filtering systems, 81–82
Finette, Pascal, 207
Firefox, 93, 94, 108, 114, 119, 120, 122–26, 162, 172, 186, 207, 211, 323
Fishkin, Bobby, 221–22, 226–27, 238, 246, 255, 265, 266, 299, 310
Visionaries and Revolutionaries association of, 222, 297–98
Flipboard, 181
Food Not Bombs, 151
Fortune, 75
Foursquare, 341
Fraser, Janice, 98–101, 307
Freaks, 49
Free Culture, 200, 232–34
free-culture movement, 200, 213, 215
Freedom Box, 44, 178–79
Freeh, Louis, 110
free software, 18, 20–22, 27, 28, 44, 46, 100, 123, 133, 134, 147, 211, 215
Free Software Foundation, 20, 21, 66
Free Software Support Network (FSSN), 342–43
French, Barry, 84–85
Friendster, 107, 170
Gates, Bill, 17, 20, 21, 93, 117, 262
Geekosystem, 74
Gershom, Rabbeinu, 7
Ghonim, Wael, 165–66
Gibbon, Edward, 345
Gibson, William, 11
GitHub, 133, 144, 145, 155, 187, 232
Gmail, 26
GNU/Linux, see Linux
Godwin, Mike, 119
Godwin’s Law, 119
Golbeck, Jennifer, 10
Goldberg, Ari, 306
Goldberg, David, 306
Goldenberg, Dan, 76, 112, 177
Goodger, Ben, 122
Google, 5, 21, 26, 58, 79, 80, 83, 89, 99, 101, 110–11, 123, 124, 134, 179, 211, 217–19, 224, 244, 254, 281, 299, 322–24, 326
Google+, 217–20, 224, 235, 252, 322
anonymity prohibited on, 242, 243
Google Alarm, 135
Gore, Bill, 102
Graham, Paul, 46, 47, 188, 228, 333–34
Grassia, Joey, 254
Greenberg, Emily, 257–58, 283, 293
Grippi, Carolyn, 59, 72, 148, 312, 321
Grippi, Casey, 59, 96, 98, 177, 211, 271–73, 281, 282, 285, 294, 312, 316, 321, 340
Grippi, Dan, 1–2, 37–39, 58, 59, 63, 66–67, 71, 76, 90, 92, 96–99, 101, 107, 108, 113, 130, 131, 134–35, 150, 151, 153–55, 164, 165, 172–74, 177–78, 180, 181, 192, 198, 211–12, 126, 222, 226, 237, 245, 257–65, 267, 270, 271, 275, 276, 280, 291, 294–96, 300–3, 305, 315–17, 319, 320–28, 329–37, 339, 340, 341, 343, 346
Association for Computing Machinery and, 31, 37–39, 43, 46–47, 52–53
Collinson and, 319
and Companys’ appointment as Diaspora CEO, 281–83, 285–86
and Company’s departure from Diaspora, 288–89, 290–94
conference appearances of, 231–35
in decision to create Diaspora, 3–5, 12–13, 43–45
developer release and, 134, 138, 139, 143–49
Dwyer’s interview with, 68–69
Facebook and, 2–3, 43, 44, 155, 210, 212
Fertik and, 228, 229
Kickstarter and, 52, 54–56, 72
Kleiner Perkins and, 189–91
MakerBot and, 41–42
Moglen’s talk and, 18, 19, 26, 43, 263, 268
NYU talk of, 300, 302, 306–7, 311–12, 320
in starting work on Diaspora, 45–47
therapy sessions of, 320–21
and Zhitomirskiy’s departure from and return to Diaspora, 178, 179
at Zhitomirskiy’s funeral, 317, 340
Zhitomirskiy’s suicide and, 311
Grippi, Laura, 321
Guardian, 83, 140–41
Gutenberg, Johannes, 78, 225
Haas, Johann, 342
Hacker News, 146
hackers, 40, 89, 111, 118, 122, 148, 149, 151, 215, 225, 266, 299
HackNY, 40, 50–51
NYC Resistor, 40, 64
Portland summit of, 87–90
Haystack, 140–42, 149
Heap, Austin, 140–42, 149
Heiferman, Scott, 156
Henshaw, John, 218
Hiltzik, Michael, 44
Hive, 5–7, 158–59, 201, 202, 204, 205, 213–14, 231, 238, 245–46, 255, 275, 277, 279, 284–85, 287, 288, 298, 308–9, 311–13, 317–18
Houston, Drew, 262
Huffington Post, 136
human networks, 102–3
IBM, 98
Identi.ca, 65
inDinero.com, 329
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 97, 342
Internet, 11, 17–19, 23, 24, 79, 86, 114, 116
Internet bubble, 188, 194
Internet Explorer, 108, 117–18, 121, 122, 124
Internet Society, 17, 28, 42, 53
iPad, 66–67
iPhone, 151
Iran, 81, 83–85, 140–41, 149
Isaacson, Walter, 323
Jejune Institute, 203–4
Jobs, Steve, 20, 108, 262, 323
Johns, Andy, 12
Johnson, Katie, 199–200, 205, 226, 247, 277–79, 308–9
Joy, Bill, 75, 94, 98, 189
jQuery, 211
Kamdar, Adi, 213–14, 226
Kapor, Mitch, 93–94, 98, 120, 124, 188, 194, 196–99
Karp, David, 324
Kaste, Martin, 254
Kelley, David, 224
Kerckhoffs, Auguste, 141
Kettler, David, 200–202, 309–10, 313
Kickstarter, 50, 87, 178–79, 335
creation of, 50
Diaspora’s campaign on, 51–56, 57–59, 64–69, 71–77, 87–89, 92–96, 99, 111–12, 133, 135, 136, 145, 151, 169, 170, 178, 185–86, 189, 200, 202–3, 209–10, 223, 236, 241, 248, 253, 259, 272, 276, 332, 341, 343
HackNY and, 50–51
King, Peter, 175
Klein, Samuel J. “SJ,” 283–85, 313–14
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, 58–59, 63, 68, 75, 94, 105, 107, 185–95, 196, 197, 210, 211, 216, 236–38, 259, 262, 268
Kleinman, Kevin, 326, 337
Klokosch, Thomas, 72
Komisar, Randy, 58, 62–64, 67, 75, 94–98, 104–6, 185, 187, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197, 216, 261
Korea, 243
Korth, Evan, 28, 40–42, 50–51, 53, 55, 56, 66, 94, 146–47, 165, 281–82, 286, 317
Kreutner, Helmut, 143
Lai, Tony, 201–2, 205, 215, 226, 238, 298, 308–11
Lanier, Jaron, 298–99
Larson, Chris, 143
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 297–98
Leigh, Eloise, 203–4
Leno, Jay, 39
Lewkiewicz, Stephanie, 36–37, 166–70, 176–77, 302
Liberation Technology, 179, 209
Lieberman, Joseph, 175
Lilly, John, 122, 124
Linux, 20–21, 27, 100, 118, 120, 162, 211, 318
Lopez Abello, Antonio, 255–56
Los Angeles Times, 44
Lotus, 58, 93, 120
Lucas, George, 58
LucasArts Entertainment, 58
Luther
, Martin, 78
Madrigal, Alexis C., 11
Mah, Jessica, 329–30
MakerBot, 39–42, 169, 215, 322
Makezine, 200
Makr.Io, 334–37
Manso-Salinas, Emilio, 255–56
Marillion, 49
Markoff, John, 110
Marshall, Philip, 172
Marshall, Thurgood, 25
Mashable, 171
Mason, Hilary, 40, 51
McDonald’s, 97
McKenzie, Patrick, 148, 149
Mee, Rob, 95, 98
Meetup.Com, 156
Mei, Sarah, 155–57, 172–73, 223–25, 237, 251–52, 255–56, 258–64, 267, 290–91
Messina, Chris, 89, 123
microformats, 89, 154
Microsoft, 8, 17, 21, 22, 67, 100, 117, 120, 123, 186
Internet Explorer, 108, 117–18, 121, 122, 124
Middle East, 242
Egypt, 79, 82, 165–66, 179–80, 243
Iran, 81, 83–85, 140–41, 149
Milgram, Stanley, 102–3
mobile phones, 20
Moglen, Eben, 8, 10, 66, 77, 101, 105, 108, 109, 123, 139, 140, 147–48, 211, 218, 342–45
Freedom Box project of, 44, 178–79
NYU talk of, 17–31, 42, 43, 53, 68, 99, 170, 263, 268
Monk and the Riddle, The (Komisar), 58
Moore, Gordon, 9
Moore’s law, 9, 299
Morley, David, 337
Morozov, Evgeny, 141
Morrill, Danielle, 336–37
Morrow, Avery, 172
Mosaic, 115–17
MoveOn.org, 237
Mozilla, 94, 113–14, 118–26, 150, 153, 207–8, 210, 211, 236, 336
Firefox, 93, 94, 108, 114, 119, 120, 122–26, 162, 172, 186, 207, 211, 323
WebFWD, 207–8
Mubarak, Hosni, 165, 179, 180, 243
Mullenweg, Matt, 225
MySpace, 101, 107, 134
Mythical Man-Month, The (Brooks), 97–98, 107
Napster, 77
National Public Radio (NPR), 254, 258, 264
National Security Agency (NSA), 11, 20, 82–83, 110, 244, 344
Negroponte, Nicholas, 283–84
Netflix, 29
Netscape, 117–21, 124–25, 186, 194, 211, 323
network effect, 249, 324
networks, human, 102–3
networks, social, 4, 44, 60, 78, 89–91, 101–3, 106, 108, 127, 128, 162, 173, 232, 295–96, 325–26, 344
Neuromancer (Gibson), 11
Newsweek, 140
New York, 94, 139, 153
New York, N.Y., 97, 150, 153
New York Times, 4, 30, 87, 89, 110, 114, 123, 142, 181, 332
Dwyer’s article on Diaspora in, 68–70, 71, 74, 128
Nguyen, T. H., 283, 301, 302, 305, 307–9, 312
Nike, 136
Nikkanen, Hanna, 84