Do Web users fear the digital Reaper?

[Evil Eye]

(CNN) -- When Jeremy Toeman set up Legacy Locker, an online service to handle people's digital assets when they die, his concept was widely hailed as a brilliant innovation that would become an overnight success story.



He wasn't the only one with the idea. Other tech innovators launched their own businesses to serve a potentially vast market of Internet users who might want to bequeath their e-mail accounts, social network identities, blogs, and other websites when they die.



The new businesses quickly generated a media buzz over the concept of the digital afterlife, highlighting cases where post-death legal battles had broken out over access to online material left behind.



But far from dealing with a tidal wave of customers, the uptake on these services has been slower than expected, with afterlife websites signing up thousands rather than millions of customers.



As much as I'm told I'm a genius for doing this, you'd think that if I was we should have millions and millions of customers by now, but we don't, he said, stressing that business was still very good.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/13/digital.death/index.html





That's pretty cool actually...