New Way to Deliver Obits

This is similar to an idea that I was talking to a friend about the other day.

My idea is that there is an email based system where you can enter all your contacts and when ever there is an obituary for any of them, you get it in your email.

LinkedIn and other social media sites use this business model, and as we get older, wouldn't be nice to know that Joe died within 24 hours, instead of a few years later? When it is too late to pay our condolences?

Look at this:

Monster Founder Sets Sights on Online Obits
Fourteen years ago, 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, reports Seth Sutel of the AP (via Editor and Publisher's Web site). 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. more »

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