Rachel Cook from Talking tech about Family 2.0 wrote a very detailed positive review about Amiglia.com today:
Amiglia what an interesting name, I am getting used to pronouncing it. I have just road tested the site and I must admit I am getting hooked…It's a great geneology site. What? you say… well it's has a cool family tree feature that allows you to build your current family tree and also create extended family members in separate trees. What's unique is that the family tree is dynamic in that you can move your mouse over the tree and it grows and moves in the direction you are looking at, fantastic when you have added in so many family members!!! What's more is each member has a photo and their own profile… It really motivates me to now go in and add in our ancestry and that of other family and extended members.
Photo sharing
As I upload photos to my own album and family, and I am part of other related families or albums my photos also get uploaded automatically to those related families albums. I like this, this is real time sharing.
I am also impressed by the idea of capturing your travels, with photos, animated maps and share this with others. I would see this in the future been a tool that could be syndicated to other travel community sites, like Virtual Tourist. Similar to the ability to import your flickr photos into Amiglia. I will test this out if I travel to the Blogher Conference (a big trip from where I will be coming from)…
Facebook feature is nice, it gives you the ability to look at all your family members, pets etc, some sites do incorporate this at some level, like at myspace.com and at Minti however it's a neat social networking feature that enhances the community feeling.
Don't forget family birthday's
The family calendar is very useful, you won't forget family members birthdays, their kids birthdays (or your pets) and you also have a chronological view of your photos. It's well thought out logic about what families want in organizing their photos and family profiles. In a sense it gives families a greater meaning and uniqueness. We should be proud of our family and linage and be excited to share this time capsule with future generations.
The slideshows are awesome! With music, pictures, tag photos…Amiglia has put a lot of thought into offering meaningful Family 2.0 features. My wishlist would now have to be a look and feel design flavoring Web 2.0 and Social Networking dressings, ability to see the entire famly tree including related trees, ability to move the top position on the tree if it's not correct and add music files to my profile so others can see what music I like or what music my kids like. Another awesome feature on my wishlist would be the ability to create a podcast/video and have access to the parent to parent advice-opedia info, like my Minti articles and introduce Amiglia to other families I have met on Minti. (but it's my wishlist… 
I think now, gaining traction and membership is really important for Amiglia and hopefully Family 2.0 sites can work together on this. You are doing great things for making family important and giving it a face!!! Well done!!!
Amiglia brings structure to a data management problem that desperately needs it. The tagging architecture of Flickr and Riya only gets us part of the way in organizing photos. Amiglia lets us build tight social networks that reflect the way we think about the people closest to us. Amiglia's add-ons to this structure are well targeted to navigating this network: There's a Java-based game for children, where they get to identify family members; and there are mapping tools to show destinations on a family vacation. Read more.
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