Geni.com is pretty much amazing to me. It's a genealogy site ("boring Jeff, boring!") but has more of a social network kind of look and feel to it. You put in your parents, spouses, and siblings and you can be done there if you want. However, the neat-o cool thing is you can invite those people to your tree via their E-Mail and they can also add whatever they want. Sort of like a wiki family tree in that sense.
I've tried all those "other" genealogy sites along the way but none of them ever made me feel like putting in my mother's maiden name in the wide-open web was a good idea. I'M LOOKING AT YOU ANCESTRY.COM. In Geni, privacy and information seems to have found a balance. Geni is also in a completely different universe from those other sites in terms of design, usefulness, and functionality. A good, different, universe.
I don't want to sit here and describe all the cool things about this site. You'll see them yourself if you are interested. If not, give your mom a link to it, I bet she'll get right into it.
I found a video for it if you want a little more info:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552949/bctid769369612
Friday, May 25, 2007
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"Privacy has found a balance"?!?! Not by a LONGSHOT! They have repeatedly violated their privacy statements and policies, exposing personal information of THOUSANDS* of their profiles to the public. It's not overstating the seriousness of this to say that they're facing some real problems if they ever get sued.
* It was thousands, but by their own press release, it's now over 5 MILLION profiles exposed.
Thanks for your comment Mr(s). Anonymous.
I still say I like the Balance opposed to being Anonymous; I would like my ancestry preserved for the next generation. Geni isn't exposing living people.
The dead get something different than privacy, they get remembered.
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