More Awesome Than Money: Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook
Written by Jim Dwyer
Narrated by Pete Larkin
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Their idea was simple. Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control their personal data instead of surrendering it to big businesses like Facebook. They called it Diaspora. In days they raised $200,000, and reporters, venture capitalists, and the digital community's most legendary figures were soon monitoring their progress. Max dreamed of being a CEO. Ilya was the idealist. Dan coded like a pro. And Rafi tried to keep them all on track. But as the months passed and the money ran out, the Diaspora Four fell victim to errors, bad decisions, and their own hubris. In November 2011, Ilya committed suicide.
Diaspora has been tech news since day one, but the story reaches far beyond Silicon Valley to the now urgent issues about the future of the Internet. With the cooperation of the surviving partners, New York Times bestselling author Jim Dwyer tells a riveting story of four ambitious and naive young men who tried to rebottle the genie of personal privacy-and paid the ultimate price.
Jim Dwyer
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, native New Yorkers, veteran newspaper reporters, and winners of many awards together and separately, now work at The New York Times. Dwyer is the coauthor or author of three other books. Flynn, a special projects editor at the Times, was the newspaper's police bureau chief on September 11. He previously worked as a reporter for the New York Daily News, New York Newsday, and the Stamford Advocate.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book follows the process of an internet start up by describing the life of Diaspora*, a social network that tries to return privacy to a person's account. Aggravated by the way that Facebook tracks and sells one's every move, a group of college graduates set out to create their own social network that allows a user to select exactly who would receive a post/picture and does not follow a person's life to sell information to others. As we learn this is not an easy project where a group of friends sit around eating pizza and writing code. It involves specialists in law and fund raising and supportive friends and family. Luckily there are lots of organizations that nurture such endeavors.There is a bit of technical jargon, as one can easily imagine, but even a casual computer user can follow most of it. What is the most interesting is how the four guys emerged from the ordeal.Quite the story of our times.