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Tributes.com Sounding Death Knell for Newspaper Obituaries?
It's been a terrible decade or so for print newspapers around the world. As more and more people go online to get their news, fewer need a (non-free) printed version cluttering up their mailboxes. Then came sites like Craigslist, killing any profits earned from the printed classifieds section, and Monster.com, doing the same for the help wanted section. That doesn't leave much left to cherry pick, but Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor thinks he's found one last aspect to destroy: the obituaries section.His new site is Tributes.com, an online obituary service that, he hopes, will some day become your go-to site for those who are no longer going anywhere. Users can post up obituaries for others and search for obituaries based on home town and date of death; they can even set up a recurring notice for any deaths nearby.
It's all a little morbid (duh), and while looking for jobs and used refrigerators online feels like second nature at this point, it's hard to imagine too many people surfing over to check the daily obits. [Source: Newsvine]
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Subscribe to commentsEleanor BurdickJul 5th 2008 7:41AM
Re: Tributes.com Are you kidding me. Why wouldn't people use this column to post Obit's? Do you know what the newspapers are charging to post them...$350.00 and up, per each paper you might choose. When my husband died a year ago, I wanted more posted in the paper but the funeral director said cut it down, cut it down, I couldn't even list where my children lived nor his family members who expired before him or who still remained. Yes, I would jump at the chance to use Tributes.com.
SusieJul 7th 2008 12:06PM
I have been using sites like tributes.com for a couple of years now. they are great because everyone all over the world can read your loved ones obit. you can also post photos and add additional information that you cant do in a newspaper, plus it's online forever, the newspaper only runs a few days to a week and like the other poster said it can run several hundred dollars, online is free! two sites I used for my parents and siblings obits are findagrave.com and rememberwell.net, findagrave.com is cool because not only is there tributes for loved ones there is also a section for famous people, and as the name implies you can find a grave of your friends and loved ones, volunteers will go out per your request to look in cemeterys for the grave of who you are looking for and take a photo of it for you . Just another great use of the internet!!