The demise of print, specifically the newspaper, has been a topic of discussion lately and now that the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press are rolling back its home delivery to three days a week, the online community is becoming a more important watering hole than ever before. While many have already adapted to the web, RSS feeds, and social community sites for their daily feed for news, many may have forgotten about obituaries. Where will one go to find more information about a friend, distant relative, or associate?

Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, has put together a new site to bring all of this together at a national level. Tributes.com brings the “last man standing” from the paper to the web as other aspects of print have come to cyberspace sometime ago, helping bring an end to traditional paper, such as Match.com, eHarmony.com, eBay, Craigslist, and Monster.com for example. With 2.5 million deaths in the US alone every year, many will have a need to easily locate obituaries and Tributes.com will aid in that need. Using a unique system, Tributes.com will allow users to stay informed of any deaths related to town, alumni, family name, or military unit via “accurate obit email alerts”. Like all things on the Information Superhighway, Tributes.com will do the work for you and let you know if a neighbor from your old neighborhood has passed or a pal that you served with in Army.

Tributes.com may sound morbid at first, but in the end, loved ones and friends do pass and this site will aid in keeping you informed of those untimely moments.