The MyHeritage front page has public stats information on it. I was glad to see the registered users number passing 26 million and the number of names approaching 267 million. This puts MyHeritage in a commanding position in the family social networking space.
MyHeritage statistics
Most people really like finding out what their friends have been doing. Facebook seems to have done a great job at producing a feed of news for all your friends. Problem is that i seen to have far too many acquaintances and it is filled with irrelevant information.
Kindo have done something similar but focussed on your family. The Our Family section shows some interesting statistics on your family members coupled with a great news feed.
I personally like the calendar which shows all birthdays and anniversaries. It even shows details for people not signed up. This is great in my family because a lot of the oldies aren’t online.
Have a look at the family tree of Homer Simpson. I never knew the Simpson family had such an extensive list of relatives. There is an 80 person family tree to make any genealogy enthusiast happy.
Here is a picture of the family tree:
There is even some details on each person in the family tree. Here is a snapshot of Homer’s profile:
There are also a number of other family trees of various celebrities.
It looks like the tech ninjas at Kindo have solved the performance problems. The site is looking much quicker for my tree. Nice work guys.
Kindo has added Arabic to its list of languages. RTL languages are not easy to implement. The implementation looks good from my non Arabic speaking perspective 
Kindo has also supported the following languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese and Afrikaans
I keen to see what next is going to be released. Family 2.0 is cool.
I got engaged on Friday last week. Robyn and I are still smiling and can’t wait to get married. The planning has started and I can tell you there is certainly a lot to do.
I updated my Kindo profile and changed my relationship status to engaged. It was a great way to enounce the news to some of those relatives that are in the family network. Have a look a a screenshot:
I blocked out some of my family to keep them private.
Anyhow it is really exciting news. I’ll keep you all posted as the plans unfold.
The guys in Kindo have kindly released an Afrikaans version. Have a look at kindo.co.za. This will be great for all us South Africans who love the Afrikaans language.
Family are increasingly dispersed and keeping in touch with all your family members can be difficult. Kindo.com lets you stay in touch with your family online.
