The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others - Nietzche
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Social Notworking site for the dead
THE BLOKE WHO bought us Monster.com, Jeff Taylor, has decided that what the world wants now is a social notworking [notwalking shurely? sub-ed] site for the dead.
Well, it is not such a daft idea, after all there are more dead people than there are living and they are a target market ignored by most commercial sites.
Taylor has managed to find more than $4.3 million to set up Tributes.com which is being billed as the last website you will ever need.
There will not be any ‘hot or rot’ functions on the site, apparently even the dead do not like to be reminded of their decomposing state. Nor will the dead be able to chat with each other, well not using technology.
Taylor’s big idea is that it will be an online obit where friends, family and passers-by can visit an online memorial website for each of the dearly departed.
Punters, who are still breathing, can find information on those who've died with a name search from a database.
Tributes.com will compete with Legacy.com which posts Social Security death records laced with obits from the newspapers.
The site, which is connected to the Wall Street Journal, will work with funeral homes so it does not have to clip newspapers to find out who has snuffed it.
Obits will stay up until the last judgement, if you believe in that sort of thing, or until the server crashes if you don’t. µ
L'Inq
Wired
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Contrary to current coverage, a social networking site or online community for remembering the dearly departed is hardly a revolutionary creation of Jeff Taylor of Monster.com. Respectance.com started in 2006. As the first social network for memories it has allowed users to create tributes for family members, friends, icons, etc., and invite others to pay their condolences. The following blog sheds some more light on the matter:

http://blog.respectance.com/2008/05/14/first-on-the-block/