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Co-founder Of The Diaspora Social Network Dies :

Palo Alto, Calif. (AP) - Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a co-founder of startup social networks focus on the diaspora site privacy and user control, has died, a spokesman for the company said Monday. He finished 22nd

September Zhitomirskiy death in San Francisco was not immediately known, and the Company's or medical examiner of San Francisco wanted to release additional details.

"Ilya was a great guy. He was a visionary, he cofounded a company that hopes to bring a better social networking experience," said Peter Schurman, the spokesman of the diaspora. "We are all very sad he's gone. It's a great loss to us all, including his family."

Zhitomirskiy was one of the four students who began the diaspora in a computer lab at the University of New York.
As an anti-Facebook of all kinds, the group has raised more than $ 200,000 by collecting contributions from kickstarter site.
Last month it published a blog on his site to ask for more taxes.
Diaspora Social Networking
Champions site maintaining the idea of ​​shared control. On its website, the company promotes itself as a "fun and creative work, which will give you."
In a video posted on Vimeo in April 2010, when they first went in search of funds in the Diaspora, Zhitomirskiy describes a vision.
"No more going to be the fantasy of these large corporate networks I mean that the exchange and confidentiality are mutually exclusive," said co-founders along with Rafael Zhitomirskiy Sofaer, Dan flu and Salzber Max.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is listed as a supporter. He told Wired.com in May 2010 after privacy controls Facebook has announced that he liked the new open-source project. "I think it's cool people are trying to do. I see a little of myself in them," he said.

According Zhitomirskiy profile on the diaspora, it is "super passionate about building a world of space pirate culture maker, sharing, cycling, and life satisfaction."

In September 2010 interview with the New York magazine, said he wanted Zhitomirskiy social network users to migrate to sites that have been opened to the privacy policy.
Zhitomirskiy said he and his co-founders have decided to make money when they created the diaspora, but rather to provide an "open platform" for users.
"It 's something deeper that make money off of stuff," said Zhitomirskiy. "When creating the material universe is awesome."

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