Alison Johnston didn’t plan to build a startup around death. An early employee at Q&A app Aardvark that was bought by Google, she’d founded tutoring app InstaEDU and sold it to Chegg. She made mass market consumer products. But then, “I had a family member who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I thought about […]
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Facebook still needs to work on what to do when users die
What happens to your Facebook account after you die? Well, that largely depends on who reports your death to Facebook first.
In 2015, Facebook announced in a press release that users would be able to name a “legacy contact,” or a person responsible f…
Memorial bench has a nice message, but definitely needed a better editor
While I too want to be remembered as someone who smiled at all dogs, I also want proper sentence structure.
On Sunday, Jen D’Angelo pointed out on Twitter that a dedicated park bench in Los Angeles probably had a very nice intention, but its unfortunate wording kinda ruined it.
Sorry but I love this badly phrased memorial bench so much pic.twitter.com/oe6gj6BUEz
— Jen D’Angelo (@jenlikespizza) April 29, 2018
“In loving memory of Nicole Campbell, who never saw a dog and didn’t smile.”
Wait.
She never saw dogs and she never smiled? Surely, they really mean something along the lines of, “she never saw a dog without smiling,” right? Or maybe they were celebrating that she never smiled and managed to live a life free of canines? Read more…
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