Stefanie Olsen from CNET News.com wrote an extensive article about Family 2.0 that posted on NY Times and MSN as well and interviewed Paul Berry for it:
Husband and wife team Paul and Milena Berry started Amiglia, a photo-sharing and family tree site. Privately funded, it launched a public beta in late February, but the Berries plan to introduce a new version this summer. They say Amiglia has already drawn about 100,000 readers...
"Our focus has been anti-WebVan--low cost of operations. We've managed to build Amiglia and develop it for very little," Berry said...
Amiglia.com plans to make money by selling annual subscriptions for better storage. It's free to store 1GB of photos and videos on the site, but access to 100GB of storage costs about $50 a year...
As for the family meme on the Web, Berry believes that good ideas float around in the ether and smart people pick up on them at the same time.
"We hope that our strategy of low-cost operations but powerful development cycles will allow us to out-survive them all," Berry said. "We really hope the whole category does burst out in the next six to nine months, but that will be left to be seen."
Read also this translation into Japanese, posted on June 14, 2006
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