What can you use the application for?
Geni is a social networking platform that enables people to stay connected with their family and relatives. The idea behind Geni builds on the fact that in this modern age people do not get adequate time to socialize with their families and relatives and often people lose touch of their near and dear ones. The website provides users with an interactive platform, where they can socialize with their family members and build up their own family tree. It is a great tool that helps in enhancing the understanding among family members and provides a better way to be in touch with each other. A user can invite his/her family members by adding the corresponding email addresses on the profile for expanding the family tree. Similarly, these family members can invite and add other members/relatives in the family tree to help it grow further. All the members of a family tree have their unique profiles on the site, which can be accessed by clicking on their names in the family tree. Geni helps users post every news on their profile that they like to share with their family members in the ‘Family News’ section. One of great things about this web application is that only the members of a family tree are authorized to access the tree and view the profiles of other family members. No other member of the site is allowed to have access to it, without assuming an authorized membership of the family tree. One can easily upload photos and videos on the profile to share the beautiful and memorable moments of his/her life with other family members. In addition, the user can easily keep a note of all the upcoming birthdays and events that are related to his/her family members. The site provides regular alerts regarding the upcoming birthdays and anniversaries to facilitate its users to greet their loved ones on time.
What is the history and popularity of the application?
Geni has been created by a core group of former executives and employees of PayPal, eBay, eGroups, Tribe in the year 2006. The management of the company is presently headed by David Sacks (CEO and Founder), Alan Braverman (Co-founder and CTO), George Zachary (Board member) and Peter Thiel (Board member). The site is presently used by millions of web surfers to build and maintain their family trees online.
What are the differences to other applications?
There is as not much difference between Geni.com and other similar applications revolving around the concept of building strong family relationships. The difference basically lies in the services and features Geni provides to its users. The event reminder services and ability to load family videos and photos are the features that the website incorporates.
How does the application look and feel to use?
The homepage of the site has decent outlook and it uses understated colors to give an overall somber feel. The logo of the site has “Geni” as the heading with a good tagline “everyone’s related”. No ads are included in the site which helps users to escape from disturbing and annoying pop-ups. Navigation of the site is simple and it does not consume precious time of the users to switch within the different pages of the site.
How does the registration process work?
The registration process of the site is simple and a new user has to provide only the first name, last name, email address and this is enough to start building his/her own family tree. The registration process is fast and the site does not take much time to get a person registered with the site. The site sends a welcome mail to the user’s provided email address which consists of a welcome note and a temporary password to be used with the site. A user can also set his/her permanent password by clicking on the link mentioned in the welcome mail. There are no requirements regarding the credit card details in the registration process.
What does it cost to use the application?
The site provides its social networking services for free to the web users and it is presently funded by venture capitalists companies Charles River Ventures and The Founder Funds. No outside advertisement or other similar stuff is observed on the website.
Who would you recommend the application to?
The site can be recommended to people who like to share every possible aspect of their life with their family and build up their family tree online.
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