Posts Tagged with ‘Geni’

I have received an announcement from MyHeritage today about the acquisition of a social networking site for families Kindo. The acquisition amount is not disclosed but the goal is quite ambitios: MyHeritage aims to become a “Facebook for families” where family members will be able to research history of their families and stay connected to each other as well.
As you may know, MyHeritage is one of the most popular websites for family-based communications and has a very strong offering, especially [...]

I am still trying to get out some posts out with my impressions of the startups that we have seen launched early this week at TechCrunch 50 and DEMOfall. I have not attended any of the two events but that gave me certain freedom of tracking what was going on and reading everything other bloggers and journalists had to say.
And it is very difficult to express my surprise when I saw Yammer announced as a winner of TC 50. I [...]

One of the products debuted at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco is Yammer - a product dabbed by Erick Schonfeld “Twitter for companies”. That basically means that it is yet another microblogging product and a niche one at that - targeted at enterprise market specifically.
The main idea here is that there is no large universal Yammer network here - you can only join a provate corporate network for the company you work for using your corporate email address. [...]

Much has been made of the early adopters vs. middle America argument when it comes to much of Web 2.0 technology. And while everyone likes the "cool factor" of being part of the first tribe to have adopted a product or app, we all know that reality dictates more widespread adoption for a company to succeed.
There are some companies who have already managed to gain more widespread adoption. LinkedIn is one of them, and I know that because even my [...]

Odds are if you are reading this blog, you are already using at least one, and probably many more, Web 2.0 apps. But I've seen several things over the past week that make me question how well people can stay "off the grid," maintaining even a partial online anonymity.
I've stated before that I'm a fairly private person. Until I started writing for blogs professionally, I kept my identity online behind a handle. When registering for sites that I test for [...]

Web 2.0 is a term that means different things to different people, but there are some common characteristics that seem to characterize Web 2.0: alpha or beta status. A certain look and feel to sites. Social aspects to the application (for the most part). Building something that should enhance something else (Facebook apps, browser plug-ins). Some things are also common that also crop up, like frequent down-time, or lack of a business plan that ends up with a site shuttered, [...]

Sometimes I'm a little slow at catching on with new things. It took an interesting new look to Ross Mayfield's blog to get me to notice Dandelife, but I may have gotten hooked on this whole lifecasting thing. I was fortunate enough to spend some time IMing with Dandelife CEO Kelly Abbott about his vision for Dandelife as well as getting a bit of a newcomer's walk-through.
Dandelife started out as a blogging platform, but it's obviously a different application than [...]

Before I begin detailing the latest travesty in high-speed highway robbery, I need to disclose that I have been a Time Warner high-speed customer since they first did a beta program in my area. I remained loyal even when DSL arrived, for far less money than what I pay for my high-speed cable connection. And I've encouraged countless others to ditch their dial-up to move to Time Warner's services.
Hopefully, my long history as an evangelist of their services will explain [...]

Within the past two years, Web 2.0 has gone completely mainstream. Much as the World Wide Web was once the near-exclusive playground for college students and early adopters, everything from social networking to Ajax apps are familiar to just about everyone online.
With no signs of slowing down, however, each and every user-driven site, from Web 1.0 online shopping to nifty 2.0 apps like Geni, collects data on its users. Amazon has your credit card information, your purchase history, and your [...]