So the diaspora* project pretty much blew up last week, getting press everywhere from tech blogs to the New York Times. In case you weren't paying attention, the basic plot is this: 4 NYU students decided to bunker down for the summer and build a decentralized, privacy-aware social network that's the spiritual antithesis of Facebook. They posted their plan on micro-financing site Kickstarter, asking for $10,000 and 3 months to get the job done. So far they've raised $181,866. :-o
The students are Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy, and judging from this recent exchange with Luis Villa, they just might have the chops to pull it off.
So OK, this is what everyone knows. BUT - did you also know that said Daniel Grippi happens to be a pretty kick ass electro-house producer who goes by the name of Telemakhos (which we at soundtrckr, devout Classicists/Hellenists all, just love)? Well, he is! And you can check out some of his stuff at Last.fm. Not sure how long it's been since he updated his page, but we'll dig around some more and see if we can get our hands on his latest...
