12 October 2013

New Family Research Photo Site in the Works: YouWho.com

The latest web site hoping to appeal to family researchers is being developed by former Ancestry.com executives.  That may be good news or bad news depending how you feel about Ancestry.com!  With $5 million in seed money from Lightspeed Venture Partners, it looks like they're taking a very serious run at it.

Today, I took a look at their site, or tried to anyway...  YouWho will show you a few bits and pieces of what's to come in a brief video.  What is being attempted may prove to be an interesting variation on the "cloud" by virtue of the fact that what you upload can remain private, shared with who you choose or offered for sale to the researchers who visit the site. Like I said, "interesting"!  Joining and, apparently, uploading photos and documents will be free.  I can only assume that revenue will be generated through a share of the sale of genealogical material from one person to another.

Andre Brummer, a co-founder, has stated that they expect an integration with Facebook (another red flag in my opinion) will allow people to upload and tag items.  He also states that the company has 200 million items awaiting the opening of the site.

Another co-founder is Thomas G Stockham, a former CEO at Ancestry.com who left that company "quietly"...whatever that means...

So I signed up to see what was beyond the introductory video.   User name, password, etc... and so far, all I've gotten is a cheery message: "Sweet! You are *so* on the list! We're rolling out our red Beta carpet right now.  We'll send you a link to your spiffy new 'My Home' page soon."

"Spiffy"??? I can't wait...
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  1. schmidtbarbaraWed Oct 16, 01:49:00 AM EDT

    I am not sure what I should think about it yet. Another "photo collection upload archiving" website? I just think about ancientfaces.com or some similar websites. I'll wait and see what comes out of it, but I don't expect a re-invention of the wheel.

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  2. Dave RobisonWed Oct 16, 08:04:00 AM EDT

    I agree! I contributed to AncientFaces.com years ago, I think it was when they were just getting started. The difference I see in this new venture is its profit component, the ability to sell your photos an documents. I say "Good luck!" I'm also taking a "wait and see" attitude.

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