To Die For
Entrepreneur and Charlestown resident Jeff Taylor, 47, the whiz behind Monster.com and Eons.com, a social networking site for boomers, is hoping to bring the stodgy newspaper obituary back to life.
By Geoff Edgers
July 27, 2008
You recently launched your latest venture, Tributes.com, a site that allows individuals to [...]
…was a story about a family who couldn’t access the email of a dead marine back in 2004. The story reads:
Yahoo! continued Wednesday to refuse e-mail access to a Michigan father of a Marine killed in Iraq early last month.
The family of Justin Ellsworth, 20, is trying to gain access to the e-mail before the [...]
We don’t know if it changed, but in 2007, “[t]he U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer.”
Obviously, this would be incredibly stupid to prevent someone from being able to tell their loved ones their wishes and hopes especially [...]
We’ve decided we will try to make this free for everyone. We will do our best to support the site with donations, tasteful advertising (for example, only being able to be delivered a message a maximum once a month & in a sensitive manner), and other business development deals with do NOT violate anyones’ wishes [...]
We just recently wrote in one of our founder’s Living/Working in Korea blog about Professor Randy Pausch who inspired many to live out their childhood dreams. Professor Pausch died today (July 25th) despite living a very fulfilling last year of his life. However, we truly wonder what he may have been able to say to [...]