Geni - Everyone's Related
Link: Geni - Everyone's Related.
Oh my God, Jason Calacanis is brilliant as usual (yes, I'm a big fan of his - always have been, you know, since the "early days.") He is gaga over this site Geni and with good reason.
I've always wanted to build a family tree online but have found the Web-based software to be clunky and confusing. Geni uses Flash to make it so easy a monkey (or I) can handle building a tree with ease.
My dad's mother's side of the family has a tree they've worked out in great detail but the rest of my family tree is not documented anywhere, especially my husband's side and mother's side. I'm hoping this site will help us flesh out our famly history.
My husband, a non-techy type, immediately caught on (although had a little trouble with my PowerBook keyboard). He said that this is an invention that people are really going to use (unwittingly echoing Jason's assessment). My husband also keeps telling me he wants me to invent something like this that can rake in $100 million.
Yeah, I'll keep thinking on that one.
The brilliance of something like Geni is that it is so damn obvious that this kind of intuitive site was needed for the millions of genealogy fanatics out there who were slogging through bad software. But this also brings in all those who aren't really the die-hard family tree builders, too. It is infectious. It is contagious.
The one thing they are missing - a little badge that I can put on my blog that says I've built my family tree at Geni. They've got $100 million - maybe they'll hire me to do a little marketing strategy for them. Yeah, that's it.
