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22-Year-Old Founder of Open Social Network Diaspora Ilya Zhitomirskiy Has Died

in Social on November 13, 2011 at 12:34 pm PT

Social network co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy has died. Zhitomirskiy, along with Maxwell Salzberg and Daniel Grippi were preparing to launch Diaspora, a social network designed to be open and decentralized. He was 22.

R.I.P. Director John Hughes: Anyone? Anyone? Aaaannnyone Not Completely Bummed?

in News on August 7, 2009 at 2:44 pm PT

While John Hughes has almost nothing to do with the Internet, BoomTown–who is of a certain age–was saddened to hear about the premature passing of this director supreme of suburban teen angst movies of the 1980s. He died yesterday of a heart attack at 59 years old. His hit films included “The Breakfast Club,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” He wrote “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles,” as well as “Pretty in Pink,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “Home Alone” and tons of others. Here are some great clips online.
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