Respectance - share your memories

"Because of you I cry myself to sleep every night," the post at Respectance.com reads. "I pray that my best friend will come back to me and that she can overcome the brain damage you gave her and the pain that she is in. You didn't deserve to die because you should be here to see the effects of your drunk driving. " (more)

Dianna Woolfenden, who said she shared a room with Michael Edgeley in Melbourne for over a month, paid tribute to him on a site called Respectance: "He took me under his wing and called me his little sis," she wrote. "I will miss him dearly... and I will always remember him as a kind guy with a big heart." (more)

As they prepare to bury their son in a private ceremony, the parents of John O’Keefe remember him as a big-hearted man with a loving spirit. (more)

Why online? Simply stated, the future is online. We all know the Internet can be overwhelming for first-time users. It is typical to think, “How do I find what I want? This is too much!” But it is not as difficult as you might think. (more)

Hyves is niet geschikt als herdenkingsplek, vond de Nederlandse ondernemer Richard Derks. Hij startte samen met een partner de site Respectance.com. Een soort Hyves voor overledenen. Investeerders stopten anderhalf miljoen euro in de site. Sites als Hyves bieden niet waar rouwenden om vragen, vindt Derks. ‘Onze site gaat niet over de doden, maar over de nabestaanden. Zij kunnen herinneringen met elkaar uitwisselen’. Respectance.com verdient aan advertenties en inschrijfgeld. (more)

Vanessa Abernathy wrote on site Respectance: "Emma your smile will live on forever in the hearts of those lives you have touched. May you fly free with the angels and have their wings wrapped around you." (more)

In this item we promised our readers to start a series of interviews with interesting CEO’s, brand managers, serial entrepreneurs and founders of compelling companies. Well here’s our first CEO interview. It’s with Richard Derks, co-founder of Respectance, the world’s first social media approach to sharing memories. Yes, an interesting subject indeed! (more)

Richard recently meet with Vator TV to talk about Respectance as well as how the Respectance team is working to improve the virality of the site, general metrics and funding status. (more)

Respectance, the social network for dead people, has been in the spotlights quite a lot already. Respectance’s creators wanted to develop a dedicated, open and appropriate outlet for individuals to “heal and share memories of their loved ones, while finding others with similar experiences”. (more)

For all of Facebook's recent successes, MySpace continues to thrive. That's the theme of my recent big Fortune story on the MySpace/Facebook battle, "As Facebook takes off, MySpace strikes back." Meanwhile, innumerable permutations of the seductive social networking model continue to arise, because this is increasingly the kind of Internet that users are showing, with their behavior, that they want. (more)