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Earlier this week SvenOnTech told you about Tributes.com, the place for obits online. We quoted founder Jeff Taylor to the claim as being the first online obits site. Guess what? It’s not.
Legacy.com is a site that’s been bringing obituaries to the web for over a decade since 1998! The site claims 13 million unique visitors a month making it one of the most popular web sites on the Internet. Teaming up with the largest media sources in the world, ” including more than 700 newspapers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia”, a loved one, friend, or college can easily be found on Legacy.com. In fact, a recent death of a college of mine was found instantly on Legacy.com.
The site also allows users to interact with one another in remembering the lost. “Users also can create interactive Legacy Memorial Websites that allow others to post and share photos, video and other memories of their loved ones,” SvenOnTech was told by Legacy.com.
Take a look at Legacy.com and remember and share with others the life of someone today.
UPDATE: Founder of Tributes.com, Jeff Taylor, was inaccurately quoted and did not make the claim “last man standing” This claim was made by Tributes.com press release.
The iPhone has a few Wikipedia applications available for information hunting people on the go. Most like Wikipanion, my self included, while others like Wikiamo. Now there’s a new kid in town and he’s free with some added features. Oh ya, he also runs on Android based systems such as T-Mobile’s G1.
WikiTap brings you both Wikipedia and Wikionary right to your hand. While the formatting isn’t anything to woo most users, what one will find on the bottom row in Wikipedia results may at least raise some eye brows. With a connection to its WikiTap community adding video to WikiTap as well as links to YouTube, you’ll be able to dive in deeper in topic right there in your handset. You don’t have to upload anything to participate either. You can do the TiVo and thumb-up or down video to help better refine what shows up in the video row.
For those needing to know how to pronounce a word, look it up in Wikionary and tap the speaker and out comes the way to say it. Speaking of spelling, WikiTap will also auto-corrrects misspelt words in the look up window for you. For example, if you type “shwazzenegg”, you’ll get Arnold Schwarzenegger. Enter “sycholog” and out comes “psychology”. Great for people like me that weren’t taught phonics in school. (What was I taught anyway? Such a blur.)
Veveo hopes to add travel and music to the list of features in the future. Get WikiTap from the AppStore or App Market for free today.
I’ve downloaded and signed up for the service and am going to give it a try. How knows, I may find a new killer beer and a nice restaurant in which to drink it at. In fact, it may be your review that guides to these jewels! 
Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless service provider, and Loopt® announced today that Verizon Wireless customers can now access Loopt’s interoperable location-based service.
Loopt allows friends who opt in to be located by other friends to show where the friends are located and what they are doing via detailed, interactive maps on their mobile phones. Loopt helps friends connect on the go and navigate their social lives by orienting them to people, places and events. Users can also choose to permit sharing of location updates, geo-tagged photos and comments with friends in their mobile address book or on online social networks, communities and blogs.
“Loopt helps Verizon Wireless customers stay connected to friends and share their location in a fun and interactive way,” said Ryan Hughes, vice president of digital media programming for Verizon. “Loopt enhances our customers’ real world experiences by helping friends stay informed of their friends’ lives.”
“We are on a mission to deliver Loopt to consumers everywhere, and by offering our service to Verizon Wireless customers, we’re significantly closer to achieving that goal,” said Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of Loopt. “With Loopt, Verizon Wireless customers now have a powerful tool to navigate their mobile lifestyles and easily connect with people and places around them.”
Loopt, the social mapping industry leader, offers the most intuitive and effective privacy controls and security features for end users. Loopt is 100 percent permission-based and users share location information only with their known friends via private networks. In addition, Loopt users can easily turn location-sharing on or off at any time on a friend-by-friend basis or for all friends at once. Loopt regularly works with organizations such as the Family Online Safety Institute, ConnectSafely.org, the Center for Democracy & Technology, Progress & Freedom Foundation’s Center for Digital Media Freedom, and the Internet Safety Task Force.
Loopt is available today on select Verizon Wireless phones for $3.99 monthly access in the Tools on the Go, Featured Applications and Community shopping aisles in the Get It Now® virtual store. Customers need a Get It Now-enabled handset and Verizon Wireless digital service to access the Get It Now virtual store.