Monday, November 14, 2011

Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Dies at 22 [REPORT] (Mashable)

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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of the open-source Facebook alternative Diaspora, has died at the age of 22. The cause of death is not yet publicly known.

Zhitomirskiy, along with Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer, created the open-source software as part of a project while they were students at New York University. Diaspora was created as a response to Facebook's controversial privacy changes in 2010. The team was able to raise $200,000 on Kickstarter to launch the project.

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Our thoughts and condolences go out to Zhitomirskiy's family and friends.

via TechCrunch

Image courtesy of Leora Israel

This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20111113/tc_mashable/diaspora_cofounder_ilya_zhitomirskiy_dies_at_22_report

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