At 22 years old, was one of the four students based in New York that launched the Diaspora as a "privacy aware user-controlled" social network.It 'was founded in response to criticism that the privacy of Facebook users' is not easy to handle.
The cause of the death of Mr. Zhitomirskiy is to be determined. The coroner's office in San Francisco said it will be more details in a few weeks. "
In tribute, featured home page of the diaspora a giant dandelion head seed next to a photo of Mr. Zhitomirskiy.
Public memory of events is planned for Mr. Zhitomirskiy in San Francisco this week.
A statement by a co-founder Peter Shurman said, "We will all miss Ilya most we can say Ilya was a great friend and a brilliant person, a visionary whose work online for a better future of hope for many people.
