If you've had a friend or loved-one die during the Facebook age, you may or may not have known that Facebook will memorialize their profile if you let them know about it. Facebook's Max Kelly reminded us of the fact in a post on the company's blog today.
Comedian Soupy Sales has passed away at the age of 83, reportedly at a Hospice in New York.
Provide your condolences at the Famous Dead website -- www.FamousDead.com ...
The web is abuzz with fond memories and sadness of his death. The rate at which the Tweets about him are rolling in provide evidence to that.
Update: Google has posted more about Rajeev on the Google Research Blog.
Original Article: Rajeev Motwani, an angel investor and Stanford professor, who served as something of a mentor to the Google co-founders as they were getting Google off the ground, was found dead in a swimming pool on Friday from an apparent drowning.
I have not seen any official confirmation of this news yet, only what I have seen on Twitter from the past minute, but a few of Twitterers so far are saying that Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine has been found dead.
According to the Breaking News Wire, it was an apparent suicide.
Andrew Bourland, the co-founder of ClickZ passed away yesterday morning after battling cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease. He died around 7:00 am in Reading, Massachusetts.
Leroy Sievers passed away on Friday. He won quite a few awards for his journalism and news production efforts over the years, working with NPR, CBS, and ABC.