I'm waiting for Facebook to acquire Ancestry.com and incorporate it into their overall infrastructure.
My parents have used Ancestry.com quite a lot, and I realized that what's being built there is a historical, online family network. That is, as you dig into your family's past to find ancestors, you will find records of people that others have made or added to. That, of course, means you have found other people you're related to. Incorporating that into the current largest online social network just seems so obvious to me that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Dear God, no! It would be like MyLife acquired Google (forget about the money) and poisoned Goog search with their crap! Hope there is not enough money is Zucks pocket to pull something like that!
Ancestry.com is for sale[1] and it is the largest social network in the world (granted, most profiles are inactive).
The potential is huge for an acquirer, however, it would be relatively easy for another social network to allow members to create profiles for the deceased. In the future, many of today's social network connections might just function as 1st person genealogical records (provided the companies can sustain).
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I'm waiting for Facebook to acquire Ancestry.com and incorporate it into their overall infrastructure.
My parents have used Ancestry.com quite a lot, and I realized that what's being built there is a historical, online family network. That is, as you dig into your family's past to find ancestors, you will find records of people that others have made or added to. That, of course, means you have found other people you're related to. Incorporating that into the current largest online social network just seems so obvious to me that I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Dear God, no! It would be like MyLife acquired Google (forget about the money) and poisoned Goog search with their crap! Hope there is not enough money is Zucks pocket to pull something like that!
Think about what it could be, rather than what you fear it might turn into.
Ancestry.com is for sale[1] and it is the largest social network in the world (granted, most profiles are inactive).
The potential is huge for an acquirer, however, it would be relatively easy for another social network to allow members to create profiles for the deceased. In the future, many of today's social network connections might just function as 1st person genealogical records (provided the companies can sustain).
[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-22/ancestry-said-to-se...
> most profiles are inactive
Beautiful euphemism for "died before the Internet was invented"