9/11 attacks, 11, 110, 134
1984 (Orwell), 11
Nissenbaum, Helen, 67–68
Nokia Siemens Networks, 84–85
NYC Resistor, 40, 64
Obama, Barack, 59, 190, 344
Obama administration, 83, 140, 175
Occupy Oakland, 287
Occupy Philadelphia, 292
Occupy Wall Street, 287
Ohloh, 172
One Laptop Per Child, 283–84
OneSocialWeb, 77
OpenNet Initiative, 81
Open Source Applications Foundation, 120
Open Video Alliance, 200
Oracle, 266
Orwell, George, 11
Padilla, Mark, 59
panopticon, 26
Pao, Ellen, 105, 189–91, 193–95, 259
Parker, Sean, 77
Parsons School of Design, 134
Paul, Ryan, 171–72
PayPal, 190
Diaspora and, 271–72, 274, 280–81
WikiLeaks and, 280
Pelletier, Jeff, 49
Pereira, Joseph, 144
Peretti, Jonah, 135–36
Perlroth, Nicole, 110
Pesce, Mark, 117
Pettis, Bre, 40
Phillips, Jon, 87
Phinney, Parker, 213–16, 226, 245, 247, 285
PHP, 18–19, 27, 43, 108
Picciau, Antonio Lorenzo, 143
Pirate Bay, The, 64
Pivotal Labs, 94–96, 98, 104, 108, 131, 132, 135, 139, 142, 150, 154–56, 172, 178, 227, 228, 251, 255, 256, 264, 281, 302, 303, 317, 318, 341
Poindexter, John, 110
postal service, 232
Posterous, 331
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), 109–10
Priestly, Joseph, 317
privacy, 26, 29–30, 64, 69, 127, 128, 135, 163, 172, 173, 207, 216, 217, 244–45, 344
browsers and, 124
Facebook and, 62, 77, 99, 187, 189–90, 218–19, 252
Google+ and, 217–20
see also surveillance
Prodromou, Evan, 87–90
Psychology Today, 103
Putin, Vladimir, 21
Radical Faeries, 318
Rajaram, Aditi, 276–77
Rashid, Esraa, 79
Raskin, Aza, 126, 245–46, 316
Raven, 218
Ravikumar, Arvind, 72
Razorfish, 94
ReadWriteWeb, 172
recommendations, 29, 30, 78
Reddit, 64
Referly, 336
Reframe It, 221
re:publica, 206–7
Reputation.com, 216–17, 227–30
Robinson, Jason, 335–36
Robles, Patricio, 173
Rogers, Matt, 76–77
Roman empire, 345
Ruby, 144
Ruby on Rails, 95, 149, 251
Ryan, Mark, 49
Safari, 124
Saharkhiz, Isa, 83–85
Saharkhiz, Mehdi, 83, 84
Said, Kullena Khaled, 79, 165–66
Saleh, Ali Abdullah, 82
Salzberg, Lili, 57
Salzberg, Max, 30, 33–34, 37, 62–66, 71, 76, 92, 94, 96–99, 101–4, 109, 112, 130–37, 150, 153–56, 164, 165, 172–74, 177–78, 180, 181, 192, 196, 198, 200–202, 207–8, 216, 219–20, 222, 237–38, 241, 253–54, 257–66, 270, 272, 274–76, 280, 287, 291, 295, 301–5, 312, 315–17, 319, 320, 325, 327, 328, 329–40, 341–43, 346
anonymity issue and, 242–45, 254–55, 258
Association for Computing Machinery and, 31, 37–39, 41, 43, 46–47
as CEO of Diaspora, 222–23, 259–61, 264–65, 267–68, 271, 272, 281, 286
Collinson and, 319
Companys and, 57–59, 271, 274, 281–83, 285–86, 288–89, 290–92, 294
in decision to create Diaspora, 3–5, 12–13, 43–45
developer release and, 133, 136, 139, 143–46, 149
Dwyer’s interview with, 68–70, 74
Facebook and, 44, 154, 210, 332
Fertik and, 227–30
at hacker summit, 87, 90
Kickstarter and, 52, 54–56, 57–58, 72, 73, 75, 76, 236
Kleiner Perkins and, 185–91, 194–95, 238, 259, 262, 268
MakerBot and, 41–42
at meetup, 307, 308
Mei and, 156, 224, 237, 251–52, 256, 258, 260–62, 267, 290–91
Moglen’s talk and, 17, 19, 26, 28–29, 263, 268
at Mozilla, 126–29
on NPR, 254–55, 258, 264
at re:publica, 206–7
saucecon gatherings of, 316, 333–34
in starting work on Diaspora, 45–47
and Zhitomirskiy’s departure from and return to Diaspora, 164, 174, 176, 179
at Zhitomirskiy’s funeral, 317
Zhitomirskiy’s suicide and, 309, 311, 312
Saudi Arabia, 81, 86
Schmidt, Eric, 243, 254–55
Schurman, Peter, 237, 245, 248, 261, 275, 279, 280, 291–94
Diaspora fund-raising campaign of, 237, 241, 250, 252–54, 268–73, 274
Scientific American, 173
Second Life, 242
September 11 attacks, 11, 110, 134
serial entrepreneurs, 271
servers, see web servers
SharePoint, 67
Shelley, Michael, 176
Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, 283–84, 301
Singel, Ryan, 62
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, 60
six degrees of separation, 102–3
Slate, 10
Snowden, Edward, 11, 20, 83, 110, 344, 345
social graph, 60
Social Network, The, 17
social networks, 4, 44, 60, 78, 89–91, 101–3, 106, 108, 127, 128, 162, 173, 232, 295–96, 325–26, 344
Sofaer, Abe, 30
Sofaer, Joseph, 59
Sofaer, Mike, 30, 94, 96, 97, 130–31, 147, 148, 159–60, 178, 179, 245–47, 287–88, 318, 340
Sofaer, Raphael “Rafi,” 12, 30–31, 32–33, 58, 59, 62, 63, 65, 76, 92, 94, 96–99, 101–4, 106, 109, 125, 130–34, 148, 150, 152–53, 156–59, 164, 174, 178, 180–81, 192, 210, 234, 242, 265, 267, 276, 277, 282, 286, 290, 302–3, 307, 320, 332, 343, 346
anonymity issue and, 244, 245
Association for Computing Machinery and, 31, 33, 43, 46–47
in decision to create Diaspora, 3–5, 12–13, 43–45
developer release and, 133–34, 138, 139, 143–47, 149
Diaspora left by, 228, 237, 238, 251, 258, 251
Diaspora stock shares of, 237, 251, 258, 262, 264
Dwyer’s interview with, 68–69
Facebook and, 44, 210
Kickstarter and, 54, 55, 72–73, 75, 236
Kleiner Perkins and, 189, 191
at Mozilla, 126–28
in starting work on Diaspora, 45–47
at Zhitomirskiy’s funeral, 317
software, 25, 97, 224
free, 18, 20–22, 27, 28, 44, 46, 100, 123, 133, 134, 147, 211, 215
revisions of, 161, 224
Software Freedom Conservancy, 211
SSL, 111
Stallman, Richard A., 20, 21, 147–48
Stark, Elizabeth, 200, 202, 205, 226, 245–47, 255, 275–76, 283, 284, 312, 313, 316
start-ups, 262–63, 271
BackerKit and, 341
costs of, 45–46
Y Combinator program for, 47–49, 51, 55, 329–35, 336
Strandburg, Katherine Jo, 67
Strickl
er, Yancey, 49–50
Students for a Free Culture, 29
Stylecaster, 38–39, 306
Sunde, Peter, 64
Sunfire Offices, 181
Sun Microsystems, 58
surveillance, 7–12, 17, 22, 26, 28, 78, 81, 84–86, 110, 344–45
censorship and, 81–82, 85, 180
on Facebook, 4, 8, 9, 26, 43, 44
telephony and, 20
see also privacy
Tan, Garry, 331–32, 334
Taylor, Brett, 59, 61
telephones, 20, 88, 249
terrorism, 11, 85
TheStreet, 264
Thingiverse, 40
Tilley, Sean, 337, 339, 341–43
Time, 136
Today, 136
Tor (The Onion Router), 79, 82–83
Torvalds, Linus, 20, 161
Tumblr, 324
Tunisia, 80–81
Turing, Alan, 41
Turms Advisors (Singapore group), 250–52, 255–56, 259, 263–64
Twitter, 12, 89, 94, 179, 180, 209, 281, 300, 324, 326–27, 331
ACM room and, 37–38, 52–53
Diaspora and, 58, 64, 65, 76, 96, 134, 142, 145–46, 187, 254, 280, 294, 296
MakerBot and, 42
Ubuntu, 100
UNIX, 158
Vail, Theodore, 249
Villa, Luis, 65
Visionaries and Revolutionaries, 222, 297–98
Vogue, 172
Voima, 84
Von Neumann, John, 41
Vourk, Mike, 143, 144
Wall Street Journal, 9, 123, 136, 300–301
Warren, Christina, 171
Watsi, 335
WebFWD, 207–8
Websense, 81
web servers, 10, 21, 23, 27
Freedom Box, 44, 178–79
logs and, 23–25, 27
websites, personal, 324, 332–33
Diaspora as social network of, 324–28, 329, 332–33
Weise, Karen, 332
Wiggins, Chris, 40
WikiLeaks, 175–76, 280–81
Wikimedia Foundation, 285
Wikipedia, 236, 283, 285
Wilkinson, Jamie, 135–37, 146
Wilson, Chris, 265–66
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 59
Winter, Sascha Faun, 157
Wired, 61, 77, 109, 115, 121
Wirehog, 77
Wolf, Ann, 71
Wolf, Michael, 71, 75
Wolf, Gary, 115, 116
WordPress, 225, 226, 250, 258, 324–27
World Wide Web, 7–8, 23, 78, 86, 88, 114–15, 117, 173, 205
Wozniak, Steve, 11
Yahoo!, 46, 110–11
Yau, Rosanna, 202–4, 315, 319, 321–25, 327, 329, 331, 333, 334, 336–37, 339–40, 341
Y Combinator, 47–49, 51, 55, 329–36
Yelp, 61
Yemen, 80–82
YouTube, 79–80, 134, 298–99
Zawinski, Jamie, 118, 119
ZDNet, 117, 171
Zhitomirskiy, Alexei, 192, 311
Zhitomirskiy, Ilya, 30, 34–37, 58, 67, 68, 74, 92, 94–99, 105–9, 130–37, 150–56, 158–60, 164, 166–70, 179, 181, 191–93, 199–206, 209, 213–16, 218, 226–27, 238, 242–45, 253, 258, 259–65, 267, 270, 271, 273, 274–79, 280–85, 287, 295, 299–305, 312, 320, 346
Association for Computing Machinery and, 31, 43, 46–47
Berners-Lee and, 205–6
bicycle of, 340
bicycle accident of, 199–200, 340
at Burning Man, 130, 139, 234–35, 245–47, 278–79
citizenship of, 192, 202
Collinson and, 317–19
and Companys’ appointment as Diaspora CEO, 282, 285, 286
and Companys’ departure from Diaspora, 289, 290, 294, 295
conference appearances of, 231–35, 245–46, 283–84
in decision to create Diaspora, 3–5, 12–13, 43–45
departure from and return to Diaspora, 164, 166, 169, 174, 176–79, 193
developer release and, 134, 138, 139, 143–46, 148, 149
Facebook and, 35–37, 44, 45, 136–37, 176, 210, 235, 304
Fertik and, 228, 229
Fishkin and, 221, 222, 226–27, 238, 246, 255, 265, 266, 298, 299, 310
funeral for, 316–17, 340
at hacker summit, 87–88, 90
at the Hive, 6–7, 158–59, 201, 204, 205, 213–14, 231, 238, 245–46, 255, 275, 277, 279, 284–85, 287, 288, 298
Johnson and, 199–200, 205, 226, 247, 277–79
Kickstarter and, 54, 55, 72, 73
Klein and, 283–85, 313–14
Kleiner Perkins and, 189–91, 210
Komisar and, 62, 63
Lewkiewicz and, 36–37, 166–70, 176–77, 302
MakerBot and, 41–42, 169
meetups and, 307, 308
mental health problems of, 170, 176, 178, 231, 238, 247, 277, 278, 302, 303, 316–17
Moglen’s talk and, 17, 19, 26, 28–29, 263, 268
at Mozilla, 127–29
Occupy movement and, 287, 292
Stark and, 200, 202, 205, 245–47, 255, 275–76, 283, 284, 312, 313, 316
in starting work on Diaspora, 45–47
suicide of, 308–14, 315–19, 320, 321, 332
twenty-second birthday of, 275–76
Zhitomirskiy, Inna, 192, 309, 311
Zhitomirskiy, Maria, 192, 311
Zimmerman, Phil, 109–10
Zuckerberg, Mark, 17, 107, 136, 243
Diaspora donation from, 77, 97, 130, 200
Facebook and, 4, 8, 12, 17–19, 59–62, 77, 93, 107, 200, 217, 300, 344
Zuckerberg, Randi, 243, 244
Zune, 67