The TechCrunch web site has an interesting comparison between online sites MyHeritage and Geni. The article starts with, "Israeli startup MyHeritage was a bit of a sleeping giant. Until newcomer Geni came along and shook up the genealogy world with its slick new viral family tree application. Geni quickly reached 5 million people profiles and a monster $100 million valuation just a few months after launching."
Later the article describes MyHeritage as "The information was viewable online but no changes could be made. An unwieldy system, but they still managed to gather 150,000 family trees with 180 million people profiles from 17.2 million users. 150,000 new profiles are added daily. That dwarfs Geni, although MyHeritage had a long head start.
"A couple of weeks ago MyHeritage unveiled a number of fundamental architectural changes to their service. They've taken the best features of Geni and married them to the stuff at My Heritage that has worked over the past couple of years."
The full article is much longer and provides an interesting comparison of these two genealogy-based social networking sites. You can read the entire article at http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/28/myheritage-takes-180-million-people-profiles-to-war-with-geni.
I personally love GENI. Its the greatest. My geneology is compact and organized now since I found GENI. I recommend it to everyone.
Posted by: John Travis | August 30, 2007 at 05:37 PM
I beleive that Geni is a help to researchers serious about contacting families of distance and expanding your data. What is so great is that they can add the data themselves. I do not put full data on Geni but have on my personal program on computer. But when links established and documentation shows it can really be a boon to our research.
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Posted by: Susi Pentico | August 30, 2007 at 06:45 PM
Geni has no Gedcom import. I'm not typing information and resources for 1690 people. MyHeritage rocks!
Posted by: Eric | June 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Uh, Geni added GEDCOM imports and exports a LONG time ago. See http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/08/video-interview.html
Posted by: Dick Eastman | June 30, 2009 at 11:56 PM