Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Diaspora Social Network

llya Zhitomirskiy
llya Zhitomirskiy died at age 22 by suicide. One of the co-founders of the Diaspora social network, which protects users' privacy is dead.

llya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of the new social network called Diaspora was found dead last Saturday in San Francisco according to reports.

Diaspora is a network that aims to give users a way to control a little more privacy of your personal information, and this promised to be a great competition for the other social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Google plus.

Zhitomirskiy with Daniel Grippi, Raphael Sofaer and Maxwell Salzberg were the founders of the social network, which attracted the attention of several important media such as The New York Times and National Public Radio, including the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, commented on via dailymail Diaspora:

"I think this very well that people are trying to do, I look a little bit of me in them, is that it is a way of trying to improve the world, and we should all try to do it."

Meanwhile there have been more police reports that may clarify the cause of death, there have been some rumors that the cause was suicide, but some others believe that death was incidental, however will be weeks until autopsy results are published .

It is said that during the last days of life of Illya, it was obsessed with the security policies of social networks, and focused on wanting to migrate users from Facebook Diaspora, "trying to move social networking to unhealthy more transparent and better, "while we must remember that a person who tried to do something different and hopefully shed light on the cause of death, rest in peace.

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