Facebook celebrated their 10th birthday by giving users a gift in the way of a video montage called Lookback of our best moments using their service (get yours here). These videos offered a nice look back on our lives shared through the service over the years. But an unexpected thing happened when John Berlin saw …
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This week I came across a memorial service called Living Headstones. This company is trying to transform cemetery headstones to incorporate today’s technologies. They state that headstones haven’t changed in 5000 years and they offer internet connected memorials to create an innovative approach to memorialization. What they’ve created is an added value service to their …
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We’re all going to die. We all create digital content and most of us have no plan for archiving our data for future generations after we die. These are two harsh realities that smacked me over the head when I attended a panel at SXSW this year titled “Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death“. The panel …
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Last week Adam Ostrow had a live chat based around his TED talk (see below) on what should happen to our digital identities after we die. The discussion focused a bit on what we want to happen with all the digital content we create after we die including the ability to possibly have an AI …
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I’ve often given thought to how our digital legacy will be preserved after we die. Each day we continue to generate content and leave footprints on so many places online. One post where I delved into this quite a bit was “Thoughts on using a Lifestream to create a memorial“. The concept of the post …
image courtesy of Flickr user Bill Barber The other day I got this email from a reader: Hello, I’m a big fan of your blog and lifestreaming in general. I was wondering if you could help me out. A very good friend of mine passed recently, and I wanted to create an online memorial, reflecting …
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