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Monster.com Founder Gives New Life to Newspaper Obits

Jeff Taylor is furthering his goal of taking newspaper services online with Tribute.com, a Web site for the bereaved. The founder of the Monstor.com job site is starting a social-networking site that houses online memorials for the dead, due to launch in June.

The lead investor, with $4.3 million in funding, is The Wall Street Journal. The idea for the new site struck Taylor as the natural next step to putting help-wanted ads online.

"I've built a career on migrating the whole newspaper to the Web, and the obituary section is the laggard category," Taylor says.

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