Kind of curious what happened with the team from Diaspora. I thought they pivoted to a website where users posted pictures and could place text on them.
On the evening of 12 November 2011, Zhitomirskiy was found dead in his San Francisco home by police responding to calls about a suspected suicide.
Zhitomirskiy’s mother, Inna Zhitomirskiy, did not comment on reports of his history of mental illness, but she did say on his participation in Diaspora, "I strongly believe that if Ilya did not start this project and stayed in school, he would be well and alive today."
Darn, that's really sad. Diaspora is a really cool concept, though I'm kind of soured on social networking after years of Facebook. Perhaps I'll give it a shot soon since this guy literally gave his life for the project.
