The news is especially sad, because it concerns not only the disappearance of an ambitious entrepreneur, but also because to die was a boy of just 22 years.
Its name is probably known to the general public, but despite his young age Ilya Zhitomirskiy was considered a person of some importance in the world of the Web as one of the fathers of the Diaspora social network, open source alternative to Facebook.
The issue becomes even more delicate if one refers to the causes of death, according to revelations that should be taken with caution because the young computer would have committed suicide, however, expect any questions related to each other.
The social network Diaspora now remains orphan of one of its founders, to treat the platform are then Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer, Zhitomirskiy themselves as students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Funded initially through a capital injection amounting to $ 200 000, of which curiously from Mark Zuckerberg, the Diaspora has recently had to activate a subscription intended for users to allow the project to survive