Well, grief can be expressed in many ways. Obviously this is more like a geographically distributed wake than the private grieving you're talking about. I still think it can be appropriate for significant numbers of people today, and as network mediated communities start to eclipse geographically-bounded ones, I think that number will only grow. (more)

Ab sofort kann man lieben Verstorbenen auch im Internet die letzte Ehre erweisen. Respectance.com ist eine neue Website, auf der nicht nur Angehörige Bilder, Texte und Videos von Verstorbenen zeigen können … (more)

We don't like to talk about it. We ignore it, deny it, run from it like the plague. Only we can't. We're born with its certainty etched into our DNA. We're so terrified about death that we even make up names for it: Grim Reaper, The Pearly Gates, Passing On, to name a few. (more)

Richard Derks, administrador de la pagina www.respectance.com dedicada a rendir tributos post-mortem. (more)

Petit rappel : qu'est-ce qu'un réseau social web 2.0 ? Quand on me dit réseau social sur internet, je pense tout de suite aux Forums, les 1ers lieux de discussions puis aux Tchat (et autres Instant Messengers) et surtout aux sites de rencontres. (more)

Maar het toppunt van rouwen 2.0 lijkt de nieuwe site Respectance.com, een soort sociale netwerksite rond overledenen. Met foto's, filmpjes en geschreven herinneringen aan hun leven. (more)

Respectance.com marks the latest attempt to create a workable website for online memorials. The goal is to create a site where people can post online tributes to the departed; the Respectance twist is to add Facebook-style features to the effort. Some of these are genuinely useful: For instance, given its owner's blessing, anyone can upload photos to a Respectance tribute page. And it must be said that the site is a fair sight classier than many of its overwrought predecessors. (more)

“Respectance is a social networking site for online tributes, or as the email sent to me so nicely put it: MySpace for dead people. Respectance provides a space for family and friends to honor their dead loved ones by creating online tributes. Whilst similar tribute profiles do appear on MySpace or Facebook, Respectance differs by being dedicated entirely to the dead.” (more)

Respectance ist eine neue Website, auf der Angehörige Bilder, Texte und Videos von Verstorbenen zeigen können. Das Angebot richtet sich laut Betreiberfirma auch an Menschen, die nicht zur Beerdigung kommen können. Zurzeit ist die Nutzung der Seite noch kostenlos. Werbung enthält respectance.com bislang nicht. (more)

I was intrigued when I saw TechCrunch's post about Respectance, which is a well designed online memorial site billed as a social network for the deceased. In some aspects it resembles a very slick version of FindAGrave - which allows visitors to leave virtual flowers at the gravestone and personalized notes - but it also seems to imply a presentness usually reserved for the living or the living online spaces of the deceased (a MySpace page for an expired teen, for example). (more)