Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Diaspora Social Network

Ilya Zhitomirskiy
The Silicon Valley is in deep mourning.

Ilya Zhitomirskiy is dead, the founder of "diaspora," a Facebook competitor, was only beginning October 22 First, the exact circumstances of his death were unknown, but now goes by the police from suicide. Why, the young developer should have killed no one knows.

The social network, the end of November will be made accessible to all, should provide better data protection and simple parts. The motto: "Parts of what you want with anyone you want."

In May 2010, they collected several hundred thousand U.S. dollars jump start, using the diaspora community to develop more and more since then. Unlike Facebook, the data are not the provider, but on private web servers that can host any.

The aim is to keep users in control of their data.

In mourning the Internet is big, even speculating about Twitter at the end for the ambitious project.

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