Yahoo! News: Internet News: Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Dies at 22 [REPORT] (Mashable)

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Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Dies at 22 [REPORT] (Mashable) Nov 13th 2011, 21:32 [More from Mashable: Veterans Day: 8 Online Ways to Thank Our Troops] 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. [More from Mashable: Facebook Timeline: The Next Step Is Coming Soon] 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.

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