No, I didn’t think so…but I came across this new family oriented social networking site called Kindo on Techcrunch that can save you some embarrassment and some face.
They’ve come up with a new spin on social networking involving family. Here’s how it works. You log on, enter your name and then start filling out your family tree. Once you fill out a family members name, you enter their relationship to you and then send them an email and invite them to join Kindo. Once they join, they can edit their profile (or anyone in the family can for that matter) on what they’re doing, where they are living, etc.
It’s a pretty convenient way to stay in touch and up to date with far off cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. if you ask me. Plus, it sends out announcements about birthdays (who doesn’t want more presents and cards on their special day)!
While researching Kindo I discovered another family networking site called Genoom. Both sites seem essentially the same, granted I didn’t spend an exorbinant amount of time on either site. What I did notice though was that both sites looked very similar; they both use the same color scheme (Kindo, did you really think we wouldn’t notice that you used orange, yellow, and lime green just like Genoom?). Genoom has been around a bit longer and also has a map of where your relatives live.
If you are fortunate enough to have a cool family and like to keep in touch, this is the way to do it. You can post pics on both, get birthday heads ups and have an easy convo starter at those family reunions because of the life updates people can post…”Oh, Uncle Joe-Bob, so sorry to hear about your wife leaving you for a 94 year old oil tycoon but I’m stoked to see your son Joe-Bob Jr. just got the new managerial position at Wal-Mart” or something like that! And if you’ve still got nothing, try booze, because you and I both know it’s easier to shoot the shhhh with relatives after you’ve done car bombs with your great aunt (I swear, this happened at my last family reunion).
And if you don’t really like anyone you’re related to…well, just disregard this loooong post. Sorry I didn’t warn you sooner, but I’m sure you stopped reading after the first line when I said ‘family oriented site’ anyway.
Excellent post about family networking and the whole philosophy of both Kindo and Gnome. I am primarily, one of those guys who looks at the service givers that means the guys behind the brand.
I’d say that as a user you would appreciate the cool communication done by Kindo and the great support on offer. Kindo has cool chaps everywhere in 14 languages in my case it was offcourse this Indian who represent Kindo’s english market who’s always willing to offer a helping hand via Skype.
Basically, you got to identify the value being provided by the employees of the company as they’re the elite bunch. Kindo is a stand-out in that aspect.
Lucky