December 2007

Thanks to all of our users who nominated us, Geni is a 2007 Crunchies finalist in the ‘Best user-generated content site’ category! You can vote once a day until voting ends at midnight pst Thursday, January 10 using this link.

We recently gave you a preview of our upcoming Share Your Tree feature. We’re interested in where you plan to share your tree once this feature is release. Let us know by taking the poll below. Discuss this story

UPDATE: We are back up! UPDATE: We need to take another coffee break. We will update you when they are back up. UPDATE: We are back up! Temporarily, you will not be able to reach the following: Forum Wiki FAQ We will update you when they are back up.

Some time ago we received this comment from a user: “A major drawback of Geni to me is that the family tree is visible only once you log in. This means that it is harder to use or flaunt Geni as embedded in another website or to sell it to other people who don’t get to see how it looks until they agree to become members or I add them to my tree along with… Read the full story

UPDATE: We are back. Geni.com is temporarily unavailable. We’ll be back soon, I will update this post when we return.

The Open Web Awards and The Crunchies Awards are currently looking for nominations from users of various websites. If you feel that Geni fits any of their categories and deserves recognition, let them know! Open Web Awards The Open Web Awards, hosted by Mashable.com, are the first ever online, open collaboration awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing web 2.0. This unique approach to an online event is about communities, so we’ve taken… Read the full story