Press Releases

Dying Matters Awareness Week Popup Shop in London

May 21, 2013 07:49 BST DeadSocial Last week DeadSocial helped to raise the awareness of Dying Matters Awareness Week by taking over a popup space on Camden high street and hosting a series of events over the course of the week. They transformed the pop-up space (donated by the Collective Pop-up as part of a Mayor of London initiative) into an immersive gallery with a strong focus on death, life, hopes and dreams.

DeadSocial support Dying Matters Awareness Week 2013

May 12, 2013 09:51 BST DeadSocial DeadSocial will be running a popup coffee shop during Dying Matters Awareness Week 2013 (13th - 19th May 2013) The 'DeadSocial Popup Coffee Shop' will be open between 10am-5.30pm Monday-Saturday on Camden High Street, London. It will play host to a number of events, workshops, discussion and seminars over the course of the week.

DeadSocial Compared with Google's Inactive Account Manager

Apr 12, 2013 17:19 BST DeadSocial Today Google announced their 'Inactive Account Manager' tool. This allows you to tell Google what to do with your data after you're gone, whether you want to share it with family and friends or delete it altogether. DeadSocial on the other hand (launched last month) enables us to keep sending out messages to our friends and family once we have died directly to Facebook and Twitter.

Charlie Brooker's 'Black Mirror Software' To Be Released For Free?

Feb 12, 2013 05:12 GMT DeadSocial Last night's episode of Charlie Brooker's 'Black Mirror' sent Twitter into overdrive as a truly engaging and thought provoking episode aired on Channel 4. The 'Be Right Back' story highlighted some of the same themes that the UK Startup 'DeadSocial' are addressing ahead of their upcoming platform launch.

Hospices receive a live video stream from the Pantomime 'Cinderella' this Christmas

Dec 17, 2012 11:15 GMT DeadSocial A London Theatre will be streaming the pantomime ‘Cinderella’ to hospices across the UK live and for free this Christmas. This initiative is supported by DeadSocial and it is being rolled out nationally across the national network of hospices and hospice patient families via the umbrella organisations Together for Short Lives and the UK-wide charity, Help the Hospices.

Dec 12, 2012 12:51 GMT The Broadway The Broadway Barking has once again shown the way forward in giving access to live performance by live streaming performances of their successful Christmas panto Cinderella to local hospices.

DeadSocial reaches out to potential “Celebrity beta users” ahead of The Next Web Conference 2012

Apr 24, 2012 07:30 BST DeadSocial DeadSocial is a UK Startup that allows anyone to create a series of scheduled & secret messages. These messages are then only distributed across the user's Facebook, Twitter and Google+ account(s) after he or she dies. Today DeadSocial reached out to celebrities via their blog asking them to get in contact or to send tweets of support.

DeadSocial announced as a finalist in The Next Web's Startup Rally

Apr 06, 2012 15:09 BST DeadSocial DeadSocial, the platform that allows users to send messages to their private social networks once they have died has been announced as a finalist in the The Next Web's 'Startup Rally' later this month.