Business Wire Mar 28, 2008 The 2008 Artistry of Genealogy Awards (AGA) were announced today by The Photo preservation Center (PPC) to showcase outstanding genealogy websites and recognize excellence in preserving family history through genealogy. Read the rest of the article.
Read, Write, Web March 26, 2008 …uses a few examples to make his point: one, Geni an online family tree creation tool lets users make a family tree as soon as they visit the web site. Read the rest of the article.
A List Apart | For People Who Make Websites March 25, 2008 We are pleased to present an excerpt from Chapter 13 of Luke Wroblewski’s forthcoming book Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks (Rosenfeld Media, 2008). — Ed. I’ll just come out and say this: sign-up forms must die. In the introduction to… Read more
Time Magazine March 17, 2008 Learning about your heritage is fun for the whole family on Geni.com, which lets you invite relatives to help flesh out the family tree. Since all data are stored on Geni’s central servers, anyone you’ve given access to… Read more
PC Magazine March 2008 Share your genealogy with everyone in the family. They can contribute more individual profiles until your family tree is complete.
Sarasota Magazine – January 13, 2008 A couple of weeks ago my cousin Andrew from Atlanta e-mailed me an invite from a Web site service called Geni. The invitation asked me to register and offered me the opportunity to build out my family tree. Since my family, probably like yours, is scattered literally around the… Read more
The Star Ledger – January 1, 2008 Geni: Existing Web sites often retooled themselves to add a "social networking" component in 2007, a year notable for the elevation of Facebook to near Google-like stature. With Geni, the Web got an online genealogy spot that’s slick, fun and,… Read more
Forbes.com – December 31, 2007 One of the earliest "Web 2.0" family tree start-ups is Geni.com, which launched in January 2007 and has since received $11.5 million in venture capital (valuing the company at $100… Read more
The Plain Dealer – September 3, 2007 I’ve always wanted to work on a family tree, but I’ve never had the time for it. Now I’ve found the way: Other people will do it for me. This may work for you too. An online startup, Geni (www.geni.com), is bringing the social networking craze – yes,… Read more
New York Times (NYTimes.com) – August 18, 2007 “The proliferation of sites did not deter David O. Sacks, the former chief operating officer of PayPal, from creating a new entrant this year. His interest in his family history inspired him to design a site combining genealogy software with the ability to network with relatives —… Read more
Los Angeles Times (LATimes.com) – August 5, 2007 Geni’s basic mechanism is simple: To get started, you create a profile for yourself including your name, region, date of birth and a photograph — just like a profile on MySpace or Facebook. Then, beginning with your immediate family, you fill in as much of your tree… Read more
San Francisco Chronicle (SFGate.com) – July 6, 2007 His latest startup in Los Angeles, Geni, is aiming to connect families the way Facebook connects friends or LinkedIn connects professional contacts. The concept is simple: Create a virtual family tree that shows how everyone is related to everyone else.
Webware – June 18, 2007 The Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services and applications leading the next wave of innovation. Webware.com editors received and reviewed thousands of entries. Finalists were selected and featured in an online voting poll, where users voted and ultimately selected 100 winners in 10 categories.
Business Week – June 18, 2007 Geni takes up where the big social-networking sites have been known to leave off — family relations. "There are networks for friends, like MySpace. There are professional networks, like LinkedIn. But I thought a great omission was sites that help people stay in touch with their family," says David… Read more
TechCrunch – May 20, 2007 At launch, Geni appeared to be like many other “family tree” websites, just with a better looking and easier to use (Flash) interface. The site is extremely viral…
Valleywag – May 15, 2007 Geni: The genealogy-focused social network deserves special mention because without "chasing Web 2.0", it would not be possible. It’s primary interface, building family trees visually, is dependent on new Web technology and customization. It’s a shining example of exploiting new technologies for new purposes. Where it is subject to criticism… Read more
O’Reilly Radar – March 12, 2007 And in fact, applications that don’t explicitly present themselves as Semantic Web applications, like the Web 2.0 family tree maker, Geni, work exactly the same way. The user is given an opportunity to create a very structured entry that doesn’t feel like a chore but just the natural way… Read more
TechCrunch – January 16, 2007 The initial product is a very easy to use Flash tool to create a profile and a family tree – including siblings, spouses, cousins, aunts and uncles, and their families. When you add a relative, there is an option to add their email address and have the tree sent to… Read more