.:geni in a data driven, flash designed social networking bottle:.

geni site

from the site:

“geni is the fast, free, fun way to create your family tree - and stay in touch.”

in a nutshell:

geni is actually something that i think could possibly be pretty useful and cool…something with a little more meaning than just another stupid social networking site. of course, i could be biased. my dad likes doing that family tree stuff, and so i think that i have kind of inherited a little bit of that.

geni is in beta, and definitely feel like it. it’s a little slow right now, and some of the interface design leaves a little to be wished for. but the idea is solid. you’re easily able to start a family tree for yourself and immediately start adding to it. as you add people to it, the option to add an e-mail address is one of the first things you can input. this sends an invite to the person, and then the person can input as much or little information that they’d like. and again, as they add more people to it, they can invite…and so on and so on. so it’s a great viral tool. when you as, as the creator, go back to the site, you can actually see how your tree has grown by how much other people are responding through their input. that’s all cool by itself…but the really cool thing is that, eventually, it appears that it will start making connections to other people for you. so…you know when you go to myspace and see ‘you’re joined to 1 gazillion trillion other people’ in your profile? in theory, geni would allow to see all of those paths…and in turn see what your relation to the person is.

wouldn’t it be funny if you started this and found out a year later that you had married your cousin or something…?

ha………ha….

yeah.

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