Word-of-mouth marketing has been around… well kind of forever!! From the days that people used the bartering system, there were people who traded quality product and those who tried to get by trading the scraps. Villagers would warn their friends “Don’t barter with the man who lives in hut #2. Walk an extra mile to the man who lives in hut #10 and you’ll receive a better quality and a fairer trade.” The man in [...]

It appears that Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of social networking community Diaspora, has passed away at the young age of 21. Not many details are available regarding his death at the moment. However, I feel confident that the tech community will miss his contributions in attempting to change the way we use the web. You can learn more about Ilya’s death on the Examiner.