Comments on: PayPal, Pulp Fiction and Geni

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By: Kasi-Blog » Blog Archive » Family Tree Social Networks

Kasi-Blog » Blog Archive » Family Tree Social Networks — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:40:06 +0000

[...] platforms are Ancestry.com (Blog, 5 billion entries), OneGreatFamily.com (see comment), Kinjunction, Genesreunited or Myheritage.com (for a comparison see Wallstreet [...]

By: Social Networks für Familienstammbäume - BlogTrainer [Business-Blogs]

Social Networks für Familienstammbäume - BlogTrainer [Business-Blogs] — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:05:50 +0000

[...] sind Ancestry.com (Blog, mit unglaublichen 5 Milliarden Einträgen), OneGreatFamily.com (siehe Kommentar), Kinjunction, Genesreunited oder Myheritage.com (für einen Vergleich der verschiedenen [...]

By: Bloglish - Let your weblog speaks to all » Geni Launches

Bloglish - Let your weblog speaks to all » Geni Launches — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:13:11 +0000

[...] Sacks’ new startup Geni, which we wrote about last week, has gone [...]

By: ScriptMan

ScriptMan — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:28:59 +0000

I started using it yesterday and invited family to join in. Three generations of family members already up on it. Just the basic info of who their parents are/were. No personal details like cause of death. Finding relations I didn’t know I had.

The power of email and a site like this shows what can be achieved with one simple idea. Brought me in contact with family in continents I didn’t know I had. Just aswell I started now before the knowledgeable older generations head for the graves.

As a non-myspace/non-blogger person (way too personal) I fing this idea brillant. First time I’ve throw myself into a website like this.

By: Blog Ryan » Ryan’s Radar Jan 12 ‘07

Blog Ryan » Ryan’s Radar Jan 12 ‘07 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:35:38 +0000

[...] Everyone’s Related: [Tech Crunch] Michael Arrington gives us the rundown on a new project by ex-PayPal exec David Sacks. He apparently is looking to create a family tree for the world. Sounds like an extremely ambitious project. Having done some genealogy before I think he has bitten off a pretty big bite this time around. [...]

By: Capt. Jacque

Capt. Jacque — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:00:32 +0000

By far the best family netwroking site on the web!!! Only a genius could launch something like this. Congrats!!! Go Geni.com!!!

By: CrunchBack

CrunchBack — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:04:12 +0000

A lot of comments from a lot of people who have not used the service.

They have to do a lot to overcome Ancestry.com and the Mormon Church’s vast archives…

By: mockriot » The human family tree

mockriot » The human family tree — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:38:31 +0000

[...] Last Friday Mike Arrington linked to an ambitious website called Geni, founded by former PayPal executive and movie producer David Sacks, which has the stated goal of “creating a family tree of the whole world.” Yes. The whole world. [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:00:46 +0000

Kinjunction.com is a project worth considering for those looking to map their genealogy online. They take a more bottom-up approach.

By: Georgeann Malowney

Georgeann Malowney — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:32:03 +0000

Great to hear about Geni.
I would be interested in becoming a beta tester.

Best regards,
Georgeann Malowney
Director of Training
http://WorldVitalRecords.com

By: Tom Nocera

Tom Nocera — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:50:21 +0000

For the last 12 years, from a isolated location on the Big Island of Hawaii, Bruce and Kristine Harrison have been quietly developing the Family Forest Project (www.familyforest.com). They have created the world’s most complete, academically sourced, family history database that can chart human migrations over 3,000 years, trace deep ancestral history all the way back to biblical times, and have done it in a format that is identified as 3rd wave digital content. That means data has been inputed intelligently so that kinship reports, the world’s most complete family pedigree charts, as well as be datamined by software to produce entire ebooks that accurately link and chart with full notations a wealth of previously published lineages that trace back to the dawn of recorded history.
I am sure that David Sack’s (and the backers of Geni) could benefit immediately from making a business alliance with Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc. (the corporation that has been quietly growing the Family Forest. (Those interested can also see: http://www.prnewsmakers.com for background.)

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:00:17 +0000

Sounds interesting. I’m guessing they will attempt to garner income from advertising mixed with a premium subscription model.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:31:21 +0000

Another site based int he UK doing something similar for a few years now: http://www.genesreunited.com/

Hardly web2.0 style though. But it works, and keeps searching for matches between other users and emails me to alert of new possible matches.

By: nummynuts

nummynuts — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:17:04 +0000

so where is the Pulp Fiction overdose house?

By: Peter Philip

Peter Philip — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:20:27 +0000

You must be kidding. This already exists on Ancestry.com. Their Tree is absolutely huge and what used to be a cranky genealogy company has gotten pretty web 2.0 lately. I know some of the developers there and think that no one understands the technology of family tree wikis like they do. Maybe Ancestry.com doesn’t get the 2.0 buzz because it’s buried deep in Utah (and no, they are not owned by the Mormon church), but I would not bet against them continuing to dominate the genealogy space.

By: CEO @ Noe

CEO @ Noe — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:36:50 +0000

isnt it similar to this http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/genealogy.php

mike - i think you alreay made a post on them …

By: dumbfounder

dumbfounder — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:21:39 +0000

“Our mission is to solve the problem of genealogy”

I didn’t realize there was a problem…

By: Damon Billian

Damon Billian — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:35:16 +0000

Having worked around David at PayPal (like Mr. McClure above), I would also say that you shouldn’t bet against David. He’s a very, very sharp guy & he wouldn’t get involved with something that wouldn’t be a success.

By: Dave McClure

Dave McClure — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:36:19 +0000

David Sacks is a pretty brilliant guy. Along with Peter & Max & others, he was one of the most important driving forces behind PayPal’s success. After PayPal and Thank You for Smoking, i’m not sure he needs to prove anything at this point, but i certainly wouldn’t bet against him.

Altho Peter Thiel was pretty much the undisputed top chess player at PayPal, one of David’s minor claims to fame was being the only one person to beat Peter when he simultaneously played 10 games of speed chess with everybody in the parking lot on the day of our IPO — and Peter *hates* losing. (btw, that IPO party had to be one of the most fun & memorable days in my entire Silicon Valley existence

for those interested, here’s a podcast interview with David Sacks done by Greg Galant at Venture Voice.

ps - Sacks bought the pulp fiction house a long time ago. and it *is* totally awesome…

By: Amy Wilsch

Amy Wilsch — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:44:35 +0000

The start-up I’ll be joining [Story of My Life] will be better than this. Answering many of the concerns above. Stay tuned….

I don’t see this being any different than Ancestry.com except it’s publicly linking the records together, which Ancestry users notoriously don’t want (they tried! spent millions of dollars in advertising on it). They now have surpassed the Mormon Church in the size of their scanned records (if you didn’t know the Mormon Church has always has the biggest genealogical db in the world, now you do. You just had to go to one of of their “centers” to access it).

By: Mike Abundo

Mike Abundo — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:28:37 +0000

Wonder if they’ll provide a searchable DNA database.

By: Richard Bowles

Richard Bowles — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:09:24 +0000

I hope they pitched the idea to arrington like this

“The Zillow; but for People”

Zillow has almost every house in america and gives detailed information like bedrooms, sq feet - “zestimate” - I just think it would have been a good pitch.

- also I bet this company swings it - it a way we haven’t seen yet almost a “loop” hole to where - a Family tree of the whole world - still makes sense but its a cheap generic - idea/ version of it