Geni.com: genealogy 2.0 or viral marketing among relatives

    The web service Geni.com looks and works very simply. A window appears in front of the new user, where you need to enter your first name, last name, gender, and email address. The family tree begins to be created immediately, even without registering the user on the site.



    Then, clicking on the yellow arrows, you specify information about brothers and sisters, as well as about your parents, aunts, uncles, and so on - about everyone you know. It is advisable to enter the email addresses of each of the relatives. A huge tree can be built in minutes.

    An email will be automatically sent to each address you entered, inviting you to join the editing. The tree will be shown to a person already from his point of view, where exactly he will be the “central node”. Thus, the tree will grow exponentially - an excellent platform for building a social network! Moreover, the network will be extremely private, visible only to relatives.

    Service stores not only the name and surname. Each user can enter all the details of his biography, place of study and work. There is even a page with a list of your favorite movies, books and TV shows, columns to indicate religion and political views. The profile of each user looks no worse than on MySpace. Through it, the user can send a message.

    The program itself editing / viewing the tree is made in the spirit of Web 2.0, with the active use of Flash and JavaScript. It is interactive, allows editing without updating the page. Additional options (adding photos, biography details) open in pop-up windows. There is a slider for scaling the family tree on the screen. In general, the interface is very simple and convenient. Surely, soon we should expect the appearance of the Russian-speaking clone.

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