More Awesome Than Money (38 page)

Then an e-mail arrived
:
Gervase Markham, “Parties on Seven Continents,”
Hacking for Christ,
October 21, 2004, http://blog.gerv.net/2004/10/.

The privacy setting became known
:
Gaurav Aggarwal, Elie Bursztein, Collin Jackson, and Dan Bone, “An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers,” presented at Usenix 2010 Conference, Washington, D.C., http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/papers/privatebrowsing.pdf.

By 2012, Firefox's annual
:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/firefox-hits-the-jackpot-with-almost-billion-dollar-google-deal/1780.

“Some people say, ‘I don't care'”
:
Interview with Mitchell Baker, October 6, 2010.

Aza Raskin, the twenty-six-year-old
:
Interview with Raskin, June 2013.

CHAPTER TEN

The 2010 theme
: Video, http://vimeo.com/14733288.

“Jonah Peretti”
:
http://www.shey.net/niked.html. Timothy Shey, “The Life of an Internet Meme,” published on Shey's weblog, tim.shey.net, http://www.shey.net/niked.html.

He also appeared
:
Ibid.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Heap said he would build
:
Charles Arthur, “Haystack Anticensorship Software Withdrawn Over Security Concerns,”
The Guardian,
September 17, 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/sep/17/haystack-software-security-concerns.

It received vital licenses
:
Indira Lakshmanan, “Interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton,” March 19, 2010, Bloomberg TV, http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/03/138677.htm.

At the moment a totalitarian
:
Evgeny Morozov, “The Great Internet Freedom Fraud,”
Slate,
September 16, 2010, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2010/09/the_great_internet_freedom_fraud.html.

Meanwhile, the acclaim mounted
:
Aleks Krotoski, “Media Guardian Innovation Awards,”
Guardian,
March 28, 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/mar/29/austin-heap-megas-innovator-award.

Dozens of types of free licenses
:
“Various Licenses and Comments About Them,” GNU Operating System website, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html.

McKenzie was interviewed
:
Dan Goodin, “Code for Open Source Facebook Littered with Landmines,”
Register,
September 16, 2010, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/16/diaspora_pre_alpha_landmines/.

Writing in a blog later
:
Patrick McKenzie, “Security Lessons from the Diaspora Launch,”
Kalzumeus,
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“What if you build a social network”
:
Christina Warren, “Hands-on with Facebook Alternative Diaspora,”
Mashable,
November 24, 2010, http://mashable.com/2010/11/24/diaspora-preview/.

On
ZDNet,
another important tech
:
Dana Blankenhorn, “Is Diaspora Too Late?”
ZDNet,
November 24, 2010, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/is-diaspora-too-late/7877.

And on
Ars Technica
:
Ryan Paul, “Hands On: A First Look at Diaspora's Private Alpha,”
Ars Technica,
November 29, 2010, http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/hands-on-a-first-look-at-diasporas-private-alpha-test/.

Sarah Mei, the developer
:
Sarah Mei, “Disalienation: Why Gender Is a Text Field on Diaspora,” November 26, 2010, SarahMei.com, http://www.sarahmei.com/blog/2010/11/26/disalienation/.

“Facebook develops new features”
:
Patricio Robles, “Diaspora's Gender Field Controversy and the Consumer Internet,”
Econsultancy,
November 30, 2010, http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6909-diaspora-s-gender-field-controversy-and-the-consumer-internet.

Perhaps the most striking reaction
:
Tim Berners-Lee, “Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality,”
Scientific American,
November 22, 2010.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Almost immediately, a massive cyberattack
:
Ryan Paul, “Wikileaks Moves to Amazon's Cloud to Evade Massive DDoS,”
Ars Technica,
November 30, 2010, http://arstechnica.com/security/2010/11/wikileaks-moves-to-amazons-cloud-to-evade-massive-ddos/.

Within a day, Amazon
:
Ryan Paul, “Wikileaks Kicked out of Amazon's Cloud,”
Ars Technica,
December 1, 2010, http://arstechnica.com/security/2010/12/wikileaks-kicked-out-of-amazons-cloud/.

“Despite its name, ‘cyberspace'”
:
Nate Anderson, “Where's Wikileaks? The ‘infowar' is on as site hops servers,”
Ars Technica,
December 3, 2010, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/12/wheres-wikileaks-the-infowar-is-on-as-site-hops-servers/.

There were many others, including Ilya
:
account of Ilya's participation in Liberation Technology activities during the Arab Spring provided by Yosem Companys in e-mail March 19, 2013, and in interviews March–April 2013.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Instead, sipping the Bloody Mary
:
Video of Ilya's bike ride with the Bloody Mary, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY2ilf7KSqs.

The class was called Ideas
:
Anya Kamenetz, “The Most Influential Women in Technology 2010—Elizabeth Stark,”
Fast Company,
March 24, 2010, http://www.fastcompany.com/1596380/elizabeth—cofounder-open-video-alliance.

“they were looking for office space”
:
Pascal Finette, e-mail exchange with Jim Dwyer, March 8, 2013.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

“Ilya came up”
:
E-mail read to me by Adi on April 11, 2013, in phone interview.

At the beginning
:
Natasha Singer, “A Vault for Taking Charge of Your Online Life,”
New York Times,
December 8, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/business/company-envisions-vaults-for-personal-data.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&adxnnlx=1354996826-eujerCBnyNUsOGDSyaoexA&.

One tech blog declared
:
ITProPortal staff writer, “Hands On with Google+,” July 4, 2011, http://www.itproportal.com/2011/07/04/hands-on-google-plus/#ixzz2N5ChtsUa.

John Henshaw of the
Raven
:
“Google+ Runs Circles Around Diaspora,”
Raven,
June 29, 2011, http://raventools.com/blog/google-copies-diaspora/.

That was why it had
:
Google Form 10K for fiscal year ending December 31, 2012, http://edgar.secdatabase.com/1404/119312513028362/filing-main.htm.

CHAPTER NINETEEN

The guys were giving him flak
:
E-mail from Max to Yosem, July 6, 2011.

Google, in fact, had kept
: “
Why Is Almost Half of Google in Beta?”
Royal Pingdom,
September 24, 2008, http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/09/24/why-is-almost-half-of-google-in-beta/.

More than 50 million blogs
:
Matt Brian, “WordPress: Now Powering 50 Million Blogs,”
The Next Web,
July 10, 2011, http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/07/10/wordpress-now-powering-50-million-blogs/.

CHAPTER TWENTY

Within two months of its creation
:
Lauren Indvik, “Facebook: Zynga Generates 12% of Our Revenues and We Need Them,”
Mashable,
February 1, 2011, http://mashable.com/2012/02/01/zynga-facebook-revenue/.

The lowest price
:
Dylan (one name), “Burning Man Festival 2012: Preview,”
SeatGeek,
July 26, 2011, http://seatgeek.com/blog/concerts/burning-man-festival-2012-tickets.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

In July, Randi Zuckerberg
:
Bianca Bosker, “Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online ‘Has to Go Away,'”
Huffington Post,
July 27, 2011, http:
//www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/randi-zuckerberg-anonymity-online_n_910892.html.

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO
:
Bianca Bosker, “Eric Schmidt on Privacy: Google CEO Says Anonymity Online Is ‘Dangerous,'”
Huffington Post,
August 10, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/eric-schmidt-privacy-stan_n_677224.html.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

To rebut him
:
Martin Kaste, “Who Are You, Really? Activists Fight for Pseudonyms,”
NPR,
September 28, 2011, http://m.npr.org/news/front/140879480.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

How often did start-ups fail
:
Deborah Gage, “The Venture Capital Secret: 3 out of 4 Startups Fail,”
Wall Street Journal,
September 20, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390443720204578004980476429190.

As Drew Houston, who started
:
Drew Houston, “MIT Commencement Address,”
MIT News,
June 7, 2013, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/commencement-address-houston-0607.html.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Officials in San Francisco
:
Kevin Fagan, “Occupy SF: No Show Raid Invigorates Protesters,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
October 27, 2011, http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Occupy-SF-No-show-raid-invigorates-protesters-2325517.php.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Ilya had been blown away
:
John Brockman, “The Local Global Flip, or the Lanier Effect,”
Edge,
August 29, 2011, http://www.edge.org/conversation/the-local-global-flip.

technology news section of the
Wall Street Journal
:
Nick Clayton, “Whatever Happened to Diaspora, the ‘Facebook Killer'?”
Wall Street Journal,
November 7, 2011, http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/11/07/whatever-happened-to-diaspora-the-facebook-killer/.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

Nearly two years to the day
:
Karen Weise, “On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data,”
Bloomberg Businessweek,
May 10, 2012, http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/24762-on-diasporas-social-network-you-own-your-data.

By the spring of 2012
:
Tomio Geron, “Top Startup Incubators and Accelerators: Y Combinator Tops with $7.8 Billion in Value,”
Forbes,
April 30, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/04/30/top-tech-incubators-as-ranked-by-forbes-y-combinator-tops-with-7-billion-in-value/.

she and her crew had spent
:
Danielle Morrill, “Reflecting on My Career at the 10 Year Mark,”
Referly,
http://refer.ly/reflecting-on-my-career-at-the-10-year-mark/c/855dd3b2765a11e2bfbf22000a1db8fa.

EPILOGUE

Tim Berners-Lee called for
:
Jemima Kiss, “An Online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee Calls for Bill of Rights for Web,”
The Guardian,
March 11, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web.

And with reports emerging
:
Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald, “How The NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions' of Computers with Malware,”
The Intercept,
March 12, 2014, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/12/nsa-plans-infect-millions-computers-malware/.

Mark Zuckerberg spoke out
:
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook post, March 13, 2014, https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101301165605491?stream_ref=1.

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Abbas, Wael,
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ABC No Rio,
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acqhire,
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Adler, Charles,
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advertising,
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Africa,
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Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud,
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Airbnb,
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Al Kasit,
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Al-Saqaf, Walid,
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Altman, Mitch,
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Amazon,
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America Online (AOL),
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America's Cup,
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Anderson, Nate,
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Andreessen, Marc,
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Android,
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anonymity,
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see also
privacy

“anonymous” data, tracing of,
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Anouar, Houeïda,
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Appelbaum, Jacob,
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Apple,
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iPad,
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iPhone,
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Appleseed,
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Ars Electronica,
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BackerKit,
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“Better World by Design, A,”
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Bezos, Jeff,
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bullying, online,
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Burning Man,
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BuzzFeed,
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Bynamite,
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Cailliau, Robert,
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Carrizo, Federico,
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Cayer, Andrew Charles,
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Celik, Tantek,
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cell phones,
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censorship,
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Censorship Research Center,
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Chan, Perry,
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Chicago Tribune,
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China,
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Chrome,
124

Clark, Jim,
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Clark, Wesley,
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Clinton administration,
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Zhitomirskiy's funeral and,
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Converto,
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Craigslist,
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crowdfunding,
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Kickstarter,
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Kickstarter

data collection,
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dating websites,
295
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Dean, Howard,
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Diaspora:

alpha release of,
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angel investors and,
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anonymity and,
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Arab Spring pod,
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aspects in,
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beta release of,
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blog for,
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code revisions in,
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copyright to code in,
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crowdfunding and,
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see also
Diaspora, Kickstarter campaign of

data deletion in,
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decision to create,
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developer release of,
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encryption in,
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Facebook page for,
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as for-profit corporation,
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as foundation,
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Free Software Support Network and,
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gender box on profiles in,
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Google+ and,
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hacker summit and,
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interest identification on,
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meetups for,
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meme-generating project and,
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news stream on,
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New York Times
article on,
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online meeting for,
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PayPal account of,
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pods of,
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profitability of,
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Reputation.com and,
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reviews of,
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Salzberg as CEO of,
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Schurman's fund-raising campaign for,
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security concerns about,
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servers for,
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