Monster founder sees life in online obits

Every day, the number of people who are dead grows larger

[weeks]

Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source of newspapers.

Now, just as papers are reeling from a massive drainage of ad dollars online, Taylor thinks he's found another one of their strongholds that's ripe for online competition: Obituaries.

Read the entire story here:
[editorandpublisher.com...]

This was an interesting little fact in the story:

Older people may not be as heavy users of the Internet as the young these days, but that could likely to change with the tech-savvy Boomer generation now entering their 60s. A recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that only 37 percent of people aged over 65 currently use the Internet, compared with 72 percent for those aged 50-64.

[incrediBILL]

I don't think they need a new service, just hook it up to something like LinkedIN so everyone you knows finds out you're worm food at once.

I can see it now:

Name: Bob
Age: 79
Occupation: Musical Composer
Job Status: Musical Decomposer

[weeks]

Good name ideas, Bill.
Unlinked.
Delinked
Linkedout.
Deadlink.
Nolinked.
ZipLinked.