By Jim Dwyer
Library book
At last, a book I'm going to like. The last two were not.my cup of tea. So this is about the startup called Diaspora. Its a way.to connect to your friends and family.without being digitally robbed.
55 In commenting how people feel about the current state of internet privacy, the author says,"my mom won't put anything on the Internet unless she's ready to see it in a newspaper." I fell the same way. I feel like any data typed in now becomes the.property of someone else beside me. This is what Diaspora set out.to correct. This program would be a way to control your data.
They took their idea to Kickstarter and acheived some "crowd-funding".
102 150 is the number of.relationships that most humans.can be reasonably expected to maintain with any sort.of real purpose. And Stanley Milgram gave us Six Degrees of Separation with his studies.
Chapter Nine: so the Diaspora Four head to Mozilla for advice and counsel. You'll remember Mozilla was the implementer of Firefox, which was the only good thing to come of the "Browser Wars" of the 90's. In the post apocalyptic world, the evil Internet Explorer (which I still refuse to use), had taken over the world with it's "free" (and shitty [you get what you pay for ] browser). Firefox was the open source alternative and the boys from Diaspora (the Facebook killers) had sougbt to be infused with the spirit of David vs Goliath that abounded at Mozilla.
161 "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." Linus Torvalds
176 check out this "technology wedsite" Ars Technica
217 "Data is the new oil." And the money from it, some one trillion dollars all went to advertisers. This is huge. When we find out how to keep and.market our own data then the points will tip.
218 Then, with the launch of Google+, "Google stol Diaspora's thunder." I mean if Google,with unlimited resources can't kill Facebook, howndo the Diaspora four stand a chance. Anybody know anybody who uses Google+?
And the big "untold" secret of so called privacy seetings is that no matter what you sheild from other users, Facebook still has access to everything you do say write or post. The privacy this is all an illusion.
Wow big surprise at the end when one of them commits suicide. Overall good book though.
Essays:
In April 2010, Zuckerberg announced even more revenue generating changes to Facebook whuch would furthernerode privacy. See wired article below;
http://www.wired.com/2010/05/facebook-rogue/
Tim Berners-Lee in Scientific American on Diapsora and open source
WSJ's What They Know Series
http://juliaangwin.com/the-what-they-know-series/
So we know that Facebook parses and examines every thing you do on the internet, but did.you know it.also saves what you didn't post. If you start to type anpost and then delete it, Facebook saves it and analyzes it. See the article below.for the details.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/12/facebook_self_censorship_what_happens_to_the_posts_you_don_t_publish.html
Documentaries; HBO's Documenfary For Neda abouth Green Revolution in Iran
FOR NEDA (English): http://youtu.be/F48SinuEHIk
Books
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
The Soul of A New Machine
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
