Amiglia the Blog

BloggingBaby.com tells about Amiglia

We got a great review from BloggingBaby.com praising all of the family centric features:

Amiglia: Family-oriented photo-sharing

Posted Mar 23rd 2006 2:03PM by John Watson

Amiglia is a new photo-sharing site with a few interesting features designed to appeal to families. Aside from the ability to upload and share photos privately with your family, you can also:

• Create a family tree
• Map your travel photos with an animated route slide show
• View and email slide shows
• Upload video clips and write stories
• Email birthday reminders
• Organize photos by location, person, and theme

Pretty neat. The site is currently in beta (testing) mode and is free for all beta users.

The Semantic Web (2.0)

A really nice post from the Semantic Web Technologies Blog by a graduate course at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Information.

Amiglia photo sharing site

I just took a look at a new photo sharing site called Amiglia - and it looks very “Web 2.0.” You can define relationships with through a visual family tree and geolocate photos by inserting latitude/longitude or using Google maps to define the location. Of course it has tagging and slide show views. Check out the demo family album. It would be hard to pull me from Flickr, but this site has some pretty nice features.

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Traffic Growth...

We had a brief period (15 minutes) of down time tonight with growing traffic, but the site is back up and seems to be healthy now.

Does Anyone Speak Japaneese?

It looks like Amiglia got a really wonderful detailed write up from Netafull.net, but we only understand very little. Its great to see the concept running international though! If anyone can do a quick tranlsation for us we would love it.

http://netafull.net/web/012956.html

A couple of minor mentions in the blogosphere

Steve Hatch posted a link to Amiglia today.

Social Media Meets Family Networks

Thanks to Eric at SocialNetworking-weblog.com for a wonderful post this morning excerpted below:

There is a new social media company named Amiglia with a truly amazing photo technology.

Now, families can share and enjoy their favorite moments on the web. They can upload tons of pictures easily, tag them with a fully integration in Google Maps and feature special events. They even have a Flash based Family Tree to play with.

Just one point:

I hope to see in the future a better interface integration to give family members the opportunity to have more dynamic conversations.

There is no question that there will be more Family based Social Media Applications in the coming months.

Only time will tell if this market has the potential to be as big as the Entertainment and Enterprise Social Networking space.

Almost like an answer to a long-unspoken wish...

We loved the post this morning at EvilMommy.com (just below). And to answer your dilemma - yes its all true - you can password protect all of your site, or just the editing functions, so your family can build out its family tree and photo album with as much privacy you're comfortable with.

A Dilemma

I've been, at best, a little ambivalent about sharing my family's pictures on ye olde internets. I have enough horrifying nightmares of child abductions running through my head without any more help, thanks. However, there's also the problem of lazy Mommy sending pictures to all and sundry family members. It doesn't help that the closest family of ours is 1000 miles away, and sees us roughly once or twice a year (on a good year). We do have an account with an online photo processor, but then somebody gave our password to a family member...and I have the paranoid nightmares all over again.

Then, over at Parent Hacks this morning, I saw this. Almost like an answer to a long-unspoken wish. The privacy policy, at first glance, looks good too. Really, really good; unlike some other photo-sharing services which will go unmentioned today. Almost too good to be true.

So, has anybody else out there seen this? Thoughts? It sure would be easier to upload one time, while I have the time, than wait until I get a shot at my emails. Frankly, some days that happens, and some days it just...well...doesn't.

ParentHacks.com Posts

Asha Dornfest, who runs a beautiful blog called ParentHacks.com who we are great fans of, posted about Amiglia tonight. Thank you Asha!

Amiglia: Merging online photo sharing with family trees 

Now in public beta: Amiglia, a photo sharing site geared toward families. Amiglia lets you create linked photo albums based on relationships, effectively mirroring your family tree or social network. Anyone who signs up during the beta period gets a free membership.
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Now in public beta: Amiglia, a photo sharing site geared toward families. Amiglia lets you create linked photo albums based on relationships, effectively mirroring your family tree or social network. Anyone who signs up during the beta period gets a free membership.
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Eyebeam reBlog finds Amiglia

Yuri Gitman, this month's Eyebeam reBlog-ger, posted a link to Amiglia today:

Share family photo albums online

Amiglia is a photo sharing web site that grows with your family.

With Amiglia’s interactive family tree you can explore all the branches of your family, link to related family albums and explore photos of your family members.
After looking through their demo, Amiglia looks like it has a lot to offer for someone looking for a specific set of functionality. While Flickr still gets my vote for photo sharing, Amiglia’s family-centric approach looks like it could be very useful. Thanks Sue!

OVelho.com writes a great review of Amiglia

The Brazilian blog OVelho.com writes a great review about Amiglia:

Amiglia é um album de fotos na Internet com um diferencial, ele é um album feito para a família.



E porquê? Porque ele é capaz de linkar profiles diferentes formando uma espécie de árvore genealógica de albuns, criando automáticamente um album familiar e até uma visualização gráfica da árvore genealógica da família.



Por enquanto é grátis e, como tal, vale a pena experimentar!