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Footnote’s Presentation at TechCrunch50

OK, my quick reactions to Footnote’s pitch to the TechCrunch50 event today: Starting off with a personal vignette about attending a funeral… a good idea?  Worked for Arcade Fire, I guess. Note to self…...

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We’re Related climbs Facebook application leaderboard

Congratulations to the folks at FamilyLink!  Their We’re Related application on Facebook shows up as the eighth most popular on a ranking generated by AppData, a Facebook analytics site.  We’re Related...

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“Facebook Connect” to link your activity on Geni to your Facebook Profile

According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times, users of the family-tree-based social networking site Geni will soon be able to share their genealogy activities with their “friends” on...

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Will new Pro Accounts help Geni become profitable?

It doesn’t appear to be mentioned on the Geni blog yet, but I received a Twitter update this morning from Geni announcing the introduction of “Geni Pro Accounts”.  For $4.95 per month, Geni Pro users...

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Social Media Outposts — Personal vs. Corporate

As we get closer to letting a few potential early adopters preview Genlighten in private beta form, we’re taking a few tentative steps towards establishing some new social media outposts on the web in...

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Teach Them Well…

“I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way” – Linda Creed, The Greatest Love of All, made popular by Whitney Houston OK, I know the eighties are over, but these...

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Genealogical Serendipity: Does the Internet lead to more or less of it?

Damon Darlin writes in today’s NY Times: “the digital age is stamping out serendipity.” He laments that web utilities like Twitter, Facebook and iTunes, rather than spurring us to jump from one...

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Genealogy Startup Idea: Preserve and Curate My Social Media for Future...

Last week, Bud Caddell posted a cool personal and family history startup idea on his blog “What Consumes Me“. Here’s Bud’s proposal: At every demarcation of time, we look back. We sift through our...

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Do You Have Lookup Providers for… Yemen?

At genealogy conferences, when I explain to people how our site works and how our lookup providers can help them find source documents , I often get questions like “Do you have anyone in Luzerne...

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Facebook’s Open Graph: How Could It Help Genealogists?

This week, Facebook introduced what it calls the “Open Graph” at its F8 conference for developers and entrepreneurs. While some leading lights in the tech community went nuts, labeling Open Graph...

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