Wired Magazine for this winner on Jeff Taylor’s plans to launch a standalone website for memorial tributes:

Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead

That is just too good to pass up. Anyway, as Wired reports:

Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to house online memorials for those who have passed on. It’s starting with $4.3 million in funding, with The Wall Street Journal as a lead investor.

Jeff is the founder of Eons.com, which had an initial focus on death notices that some found a little creepy. Tributes.com goes down the path pioneered by Legacy.com, which lets the bereaved post online memories of loved ones. Wired also notes that online tributes have taken off at sites like MySpace and Facebook.

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