At the TechCrunch 50 Footnote announced the release of Footnote Pages, which enables people to connect and share stories, photos, and information about the people that mean the most to them. Footnote Pages includes over 80 million individual records created from data from the Social Security Death Records (See Question 9 if you click the link). Facebook’s “Pages” have been described as the FaceBook for the Deceased.

Introducing Pages from Footnote. Pages has been called The Facebook for the Deceased

Thom Allen, Matt Reinbold and I interviewed Russell Wilding, CEO of iArchives and Footnote on the Couchcast, and asked him about the service, what’s interesting and compelling, and we brought up some of the concerns with privacy, abuse or other concerns people might have.

One interesting feature of Footnote’s tools is you do not have to be related to the person the page is about in order to add comments or stories. This enables people who know the person, but who are not related to them, to share life stories, pictures, memories and more.

Another example of a footnote product which has received some attention is the virtual Vietnam Memorial Wall, where they have literally indexed every single name, and people can search and add interesting information to add to the legacy of those people. See an excellent video about the wall over at Rocky Mountain Voices.

Below is an example of a Footnote page you could build for a loved family member. You will see that people can add photos, write memories and share stories about the people they care about.

An Example Footnote Page

Our outro music for today was selected by Thom Allen and is called People Change by Uptown Terminal’s CD, “The Things We’ve Built”

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