1. I spent an hour on the site today and I've got our tree rocking 110 members- that's without any input from my emailed invitees. While the idea is (not only) brilliant, the interface is bliss. I can see my mother spending hours filling in the details of my grandmother's sister's ex-husband's kids... stuff that would never have come up in a conversation and would be lost otherwise. And yes- while mom could sit down one day and write it all out on paper if she thought it important enough, giving her an easy to use, collaberative interface just makes the knowledge share infinitely more likely to happen.

But Jason- the question is, how will the venture make the dineros?

Premium services, like high quality/heirloom family tree printing?

Ads? (I hope not- I like the Google-like cleanpage)

Trees larger than 12+ members require premium accounts?

Family reunion planning? Fees for service?

Whatcha think?

Jase

Posted at 12:06PM on Apr 8th 2007 by Jason O'Donnell

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Posted at 1:43PM on Apr 8th 2007 by web tasarım

3. Well you got me to go and signup. Although, I left right after that.

How the heck am I going to get aunt mable in shreport to signup.

True the layout is pretty slick. I'll give them that. But I still don't truly know what it's about. I guess getting big name bloggers like you to blog about it will help. :)

Thanks for the info, and $100 mil isn't too bad a valuation. (How do you spell buble again?

Posted at 3:44AM on Apr 9th 2007 by Erik

4. I do like the interface, it's pretty simple, but I don't see how it's worth $100M

Posted at 5:47PM on Apr 9th 2007 by Cody

5. Glad to hear you are enjoying our site. Stay tuned as we roll out more enhancements that users have requested.

Posted at 8:55PM on Apr 9th 2007 by The Geni Team

6. I've used the site quite a bit, but only managed to add 40 or so people myself. I invited my mom, dad and grandmother. All of whom, to the massive surprise of me, joined up and started adding.

Great service.

Posted at 9:11AM on Apr 10th 2007 by Stephen Glauser

7. I love this site. Indian extended families are pretty big and I got people all over the world in mine, so this is fantastically useful. I invited 30-40 people initially when i created the thing and the tree has grown to over 400 people. Most of the adding is done by family members who dont do/know much more than how to send email.

Posted at 9:34AM on Apr 11th 2007 by Amit Doshi

8. I just signed up and I really like the slick interface. I think my family will like it as well and hopefully we can get going on our family tree and history record I've been wanting to do. I was worried at first about adding hundreds of family members and then all of a sudden the site shuts down but I searched their forum and discovered the ability to use GEDCOM export and it looks like they're going to add an import feature as well.

Posted at 7:52PM on Jun 26th 2007 by David Ward