) October 28, 2009 -- KidJot is a new service that lets close friends and family save and share the important moments of their lives. From a child's birth, to his first day of school, to her wedding and everything in between, these moments in life are precious and worth preserving for the future.

) June 25, 2009 -- Glubble® (www.glubble.com), the leading online family browser and social network for families with children under 12, has appointed Alexander van Elsas as its CEO. Alexander, former COO of the company, takes over the position from Willem-Jan Schutte, one of the original founders of Glubble. Willem-Jan remains member of the non-executive board. With the appointment of Alexander van Elsas as CEO, Glubble also secures a new funding round of $1 million.

www.glubble.com

) June 10, 2009 -- MyHeritage, one of the world's most popular family Web sites, today announced a new version of its innovative photo offering, making it even easier for families to share, organize and present their photos online. MyHeritage is a network of 32 million family members worldwide, more than 350 million profiles, 7 million family Web sites and 50 million photos. People upload more than 2.5 million family photos to MyHeritage every month, which is more than for all of its competitors combined.

Slideshows photo stack

) November 6, 2008 -- Moborazzi.com is proud to announce the launch of their social photo sharing platform for mobile phones. In beta since April of 2008, Moborazzi provides mobile phone users with instant over-the-air upload and direct-to-mobile broadcasting of mobile photos to personalized networks of friends and followers. Snap a picture, post it to Moborazzi and the photo is on the phones of friends and family, posted to the web, and saved to an online Moborazzi account from anywhere, instantly.

) November 7, 2008 -- Famundo, the leading online family management and calendaring service, today unveiled Famundo Social, the newest online community allowing families to communicate and share information in one, secure location. Bridging the digital divide between children and adults, Famundo Social is the ultimate all-in-one communication, online calendar, and family management tool everyone can use to share photos, family news, lists, blogs and schedules. The user-friendly service makes it possible for families and friends to connect in a hip and modern way, easily accommodating their on-the-go, busy lifestyle.

) September 22, 2008 -- MyHeritage, one of the world's most popular family Web sites, today announced the acquisition of family social network Kindo. MyHeritage has more than 25 million members worldwide and is known for its powerful technology that helps families research their history and stay connected, including Smart Matching and automatic photo tagging. The Kindo team's experience in social networking will help MyHeritage realize its vision to be the Facebook for families. As part of this acquisition, MyHeritage will also establish new commercial operations in London.

) September 29, 2008 -- Hoorray has launched a online photo sharing site that's easier to use than any other. And now, for the first time, this new site makes it possible to actually add voice to photos and create living photo stories with family and friends.
More than two years of research and testing have gone into creating Hoorray. The site is now ready to introduce exclusive, innovative new features such as "Audio Voice Narration," and an "Auto-Fill" feature that creates free online photo albums, free printable calendars and free greeting cards- instantly!

) June 29, 2009 -- MyPhotoAlbum Inc. (Symbol "FCT") announces a new way to save and share photos on the Internet. For the first time, users can upload high-resolution photos to MyPhotoAlbum, a full-service online photo album, and share smaller versions of the same photos on Facebook, the world's largest social networking.

Full-Scale photo sharing for Facebook with the new MyPhotoAlbum App

) October 29, 2009 -- In line with its faith-based vision of uniting families around the globe, GEWO, Inc. converts its pay-per-view business component to special event video hosting. As a new phase of its Internet video broadcasting business, Weddings/Special Events On-Demand host's simulated live and on-demand special event videos.

) December 11, 2008 -- Charities are reporting that the economic climate has led to a sharp decline in donations this holiday season. In response, one social networking startup has introduced a "karma" system of automated charitable contributions. The program, which was announced today, is designed to boost company revenues by giving some of those same revenues away on its customers' behalf.

) January 2, 2009 -- MyHeritage, one of the world's most popular family Web sites, today announced the launch of Family Tree Builder 3, a powerful software program that MyHeritage members can download and use to build family trees, research family history and add content like photos and videos.

Smart matching

Family Tree Builder 3 includes new functionality to make it an even more powerful tool for researching family history:

) August 25, 2009 -- HalfHourMeals.com, which was originally launched as an easy-to-make meal site in 2008, has been redesigned into an online community cookbook where anyone from amateur cooks to professional chefs can connect. The new network now allows members to share, rate, discuss, and discover a broad range of recipes, cooking topics, and food enthusiast conversations.

"We placed much more emphasis on the aspect of community that comes from cooking," said Antony Berkman, president of BlogCatalog, which acquired HalfHourMeals.com in February. "It goes well beyond the concept of a living cookbook in that it allows members to ask questions, offer substitutions, and provide feedback -- it's a community cookbook and the world is our community."

) July 17, 2009 -- Time Factory Publishing has launched a new online photo Web site, Pikcal.com (pronounced pickle), offering consumers a chance to store and share photos and create fully customizable photo products. The new Web site offers access to professional photos, providing pictures from Getty Images, NASCAR, Susan Branch and Ford, with more licenses coming soon.

With a simple, user-friendly Web site, adults and children alike can create photo books, calendars and other school and office supplies suited to their tastes. The Web site provides a distinctive experience that other online photo sites fail to match. With pikcal.com, photo sharing has never been easier.

) October 3, 2008 -- iTookThisOnMyPhone.com, Inc., a leading mobile photo and video-sharing technology company, announced the latest release of its media management software.

Version 2.0.05.6 features Unified Access™, a convenient way to send photos and videos from BlackBerry® smartphones to many popular social networking websites. Users simply take a photo and the photos are automatically uploaded to the sites they've selected including facebook, Snapfish, YouTube, Flickr, Webshots, and Picasa.

) July 30, 2009 -- Today, iPhone developer appMobi LLC, announced the availability of "PhotoBeamer 1.1" on the Apple App Store. PhotoBeamer is among the first iPhone apps available to use the new "GameKit" wireless ad-hoc networking features enabled by the recent iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade.

All iPhone owners have had the experience of showing photos to friends. Intuitively, people hand their phones to friends so they can see the photos better, and invariably, friends begin flicking through their entire photo libraries, looking at all photos whether the owner want them to or not.

) October 2, 2009 -- According to the latest government data1, it can cost more than $25,000 to raise a child in just the first two years of life. A new partnership between Kashless.org, the world's largest free online marketplace and community, and BabySpot.com, a social network and informational site for parents of newborns and their families, helps parents keep their cash and protect the planet while sharing baby's first years with family and friends in a safe, secure Web community.

Check out Earth's largest free online marketplace and community today at Kashless.org

) November 20, 2008 -- MyHeritage, one of the world's most popular family Web sites, today announced a partnership with FamilyTreeDNA, the company that pioneered DNA testing for genealogic research. In addition to MyHeritage's innovative Smart Matching and Research technologies, members can now also use information contained in their DNA to find present-day relatives who share a common ancestor from many hundreds of years ago.

Sharing photos to your family and friends and be rewarded with “MG” points.

) August 21, 2009 -- Arcalife has launched their latest application: the patented Life Cube. Life Cube is a multimedia application, accessible on the arcalife website and as a Facebook application, that allows users to bring all of their best photo and video moments together in a fantastic animated 3D showcase.

Build your Life Cube on arcalife.com

) September 30, 2009 -- PhotoBin.com today announces the launch of its photo sharing, archiving and sorting subscription products, including PhotoBin Basic, PhotoBin Plus and photo-customized merchandise. PhotoBin Basic provides free accounts for consumers new to photo sharing, while PhotoBin Plus provides subscription-based accounts for advanced photo enthusiasts and professionals. In addition to its core products, Photobin.com also features the ability to turn favorite photos into affordable gifts, including canvases, prints, mugs and puzzles.

) June 29, 2009 -- Measured as a network of websites, FamilyLink.com announced today that it is now a Quantcast Top 100 site, marking it as one of the most popular websites in the United States.

Quantcast, a leading Internet audience tracking service, ranks websites based on the number of unique people who have visited each domain.

According to Quantcast, FamilyLink attracted more than 7.9 million unique people in the U.S. and more than 12 million worldwide in the past 30 days placing the FamilyLink.com Network #99 in the Top 100 most popular sites.

) May 8, 2009 -- In today's busy, fast-paced world, the popularity of online social networking is exploding. In fact, more than one billion pieces of content - photos, notes, and links - are shared each week on Facebook. TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS™), a local communications company, advises people to use good judgment and to give serious consideration to the type of information they post publicly.

TDS Telecommunications Corp.

) March 31, 2009 -- Family network, www.Genoom.com, is experiencing continued and significant growth as a family and genealogy-based social network, doubling its number of profiles in the last six months from 3 million to over 6 million. Those profiles, submitted by the network's users, are connecting family members from over 200 countries across the globe, in 17 languages.

) February 27, 2009 -- 3Sixty Enterprises, LLC (www.3sixtyweb.com), a leading innovator in Web technologies, today announced that it has acquired the extraordinarily popular file-sharing site DivShare (www.divshare.com). Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, DivShare is privately held, and is owned and operated by founding partners Rob Howard & David Altschul.

) May 6, 2009 -- TweetPhoto introduces free photo sharing service which revolutionizes photo sharing on Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service which allows users to communicate world-wide in short messages of 140 characters or less via the Internet. TweetPhoto allows users to easily upload and automatically publish links to photos on Twitter. The new service boasts many toolsets currently unavailable on other sites which make photo sharing on Twitter convenient and transparent.

Sean Callahan, Co-Founder of TweetPhoto, speaking to a room full of entrepreneurs and investors about the benefits of using the photo sharing service.

) November 27, 2008 -- Wish your friends and family a Happy Thanksgiving this year with ZipClip and SnapMyLife. ZipClip, a site that makes it quick to download youtube video to mobile phones, and mobile picture sharing site SnapMyLife.com are expanding their photo sharing community. With the new partnership, it's easy to share gratitude or any holiday or slice of life.

ZipClip & SnapMyLife for Mobile Photo Sharing

) February 16, 2010 -- Unique photo framing and social networking features of the Imikimi Photo Frame App have found popularity on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Introduced in December of 2009, the application is featured in the iTunes "New and Noteworthy" apps section. On February 10th the Imikimi app reached number five in the photography section and 69th overall in the United States, out of more than 140,000 apps.

User love it:

) February 24, 2009 -- Photo-60 is offering a new way to turn old family photos into digital photos quick and easy with their new Shoebox Scanning service. Customers can have 1,000 pictures be transferred to a CD or DVD for only $94.95.

For too long, the traditional method of keeping cherished family photographs was keep them loosely in countless shoeboxes, to be stored in the back of the garage to be forgotten forever.

Discover an easier way to share, print and manage photos online. Photo Album gives the client an online photo album site for sharing photos, as well as easy-to-use editing tools to make sure their photos look their very best.

) October 28, 2009 -- Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) believes "It's Time to Smile." This tagline for Kodak's new year-long, fully integrated marketing initiative is at the heart of the brand's dedication to strengthening and deepening relationships through sharing images. The campaign began with social media activities supported by public relations in summer 2009 and will be capped off with a dedicated advertising push that starts October 31.

) December 4, 2008 -- About Ourselves.com has launched its beta service making it easy to capture family histories without needing writing skills or publishing experience. The online service helps overcome the anxiety many people experience about loosing valuable family stories and history as their parents or loved ones age. With AboutOurselves.com, these memories are easily shared and preserved for future generations.
"It takes experience, skill, and time to interview, record, and publish an oral history. Most of us don't have the skills or the time necessary to elicit memories from aging loved ones", says founder Mike Wilson. Who, after spending several months interviewing and writing his grandfather's autobiography wanted to find an easier way for others to do the same.

) November 3, 2009 -- PF Digital Inc., the creator of the innovative eStarling connected wireless photo frame, announced today that the new eStarling 802.11n Connected Touchscreen Frame is now available for pre-order at www.estarling.com.

eStarling 802.11n Touchscreen Connected Frame

) October 19, 2009 -- Media Street announces the development of a new-media "sharing", "discovery" and "delivery" platform. LifeGoRound is a unique social-media technology that takes sharing of digital content to a new and exciting level. Any content that is added to a LifeGoRound account automatically appears on a LifeGoRound-compliant device, such as Media Street's new "eMotion Social-Connect Digital Photo Frame."

) April 21, 2009 -- PickupPal, the leading affinity-based rideshare system in the world, today announces the release of functionality which revolutionizes the carpooling market, and potentially contributes more to the reduction of carbon emissions from automobiles than anything in the previous century: Introducing PickupPal Groups.

PickupPal Groups is a powerful new feature-set allowing anyone, anywhere to create, administer and invite others to a private or public rideshare group. Groups of all types and sizes, including universities, corporations, charitable organizations and sports leagues, can now securely connect their members to share rides to and from classes, work, fundraisers and events.

) March 17, 2009 -- Valley of Life, an online memorial and remembrance service based in West Hills, California, announces the availability of its new Funeral Notice service. The memorial tribute site has expanded to include a free online service allowing family members to send a detailed funeral notice to friends, relatives and acquaintances.

Valley of Life Logo

) March 12, 2009 -- One of the worst recessions in years has activated a national return to faith, family values and hope above material consumerism. Today, the world's largest faith and family based social network, tangle.com announced the launch of its new name and Web site which hosts more than 550,000 registered members. tangle.com is designed to appeal to one of the single largest audiences in America, the faith-based community and those seeking family friendly and safe content.

) April 30, 2009 -- Multiply, Inc. (http://multiply.com), one of the world's leading media sharing sites, has created a line of personalized gifts perfect for showing Mom how much you appreciate her - without breaking your budget. Multiply's Mother's Day Gift Guide offers a line of special Mother's Day products, including photo books, calendars, and cards for under $30. To make Mother's Day even more affordable, Multiply is offering 30 percent off our entire line of photo products.

) November 17, 2008 -- Gay and lesbian parents, their families and friends now have their own social network not a subdivision or group of another site. Rainbowletter provides a wide variety of opportunities to the GLBT community that were only a part of other sites. The freedom to express who they are in a family of other members with similar backgrounds and pursuits makes Rainbowletter unique.

) July 27, 2009 -- Synology America Corp. today announced the availability of their new iPhone™ application, DS photo, which is available to download for free on the Apple® App Store. DS photo provides Disk Station users the ability to use an iPhone® or iPod Touch® to upload photos to their Synology Disk Station, or browse photos stored directly on their Synology Disk Stations remotely.

Synology DS photo iPhone Application

) October 27, 2008 -- MyOtherDrive, an online file storage and file sharing website, announces the launch of a new contest. From now until December 31, customers can invite their friends to open a free or paid account at MyOtherDrive and enter to win a Nintendo Wii game package.

My Other Drive