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Footnote: "Facebook for the deceased"

Footnote is trying to create "Facebook for the deceased." It's the obituary 2.0 meets the social network, but likely without the permanence of a tombstone.

The site gathers timeline info that you can match up with a person's life. The service also scours public records you can attach to profiles, as Ancestry.com does. The presenter said Footnote now has 80 million profiles online, which are not available anywhere else. All it needs is for those peoples' friends to come online and add the remembrances -- stories and photos -- that aren't in the … Read more

History geeks have a new online home with Footnote

Before I start talking about Footnote, a new service that lets users annotate and enrich digital public-domain documents with notes, links, and discussions, I should emphasize that the phrase "history geeks" in the title of this post is not intended to be derogatory in any way. I was a history major in college (history of science, to be more exact) and I'm really excited to explore Footnote, which I read about in a Smart Mobs post by Howard Rheingold. The site has inked a deal with the National Archives to make all 4.5 million of its … Read more