Tree.de.Life

One of the greatest social aspects of the web is its ability to bridge people from great distances. The latest instance takes the social web to the family scene with a project called Kindo. This is primarily a family tree building site where you can add as many members you want. The cool thing about Kindo is as you add members to your family tree you have the option to contact them through their known email addresses and make them official members who can contribute and build up the family tree. I think the project has great potential in hitting that “in the family only” social niche and could be a great way to keep family members’ information stored and can offer a venue for strengthening contact between parents, cousins, siblings and so on especially when college rolls around.

On the pessimistic side, Kindo does offer a way to gather up information and see how people are related and interconnected. This information could be used by particular marketing and advertising companies (so lets hope Kindo never becomes popular and sells out).

Overall I think this is a great project to have families commit to, especially future generations and well… people like me who can’t tell the difference between 1st and 2nd cousins, and need a chart to remember (cough cough myself).