Rachel Cook’s Talking Tech Family 2.0 – CNet: Introducing the ‘Family 2.0 sites’
Great news for the Family 2.0 space. Stephanie Olsen, a staff writer at CNET, talks about “A new generation of sites…taking a cue from the cutting-edge social networking sites” like myspace and Wikipedia.
I contacted Stephanie and informed her of my blog on Family 2.0, as well as information on Minti. I was interviewed along with a number of Family 2.0 founders (whom sites are profiled here at Talking Tech on Family 2.0), such as the JotSpot’s founder (and well known Excite co-founder) Joe Kraus…what makes me happy to envangelize this space is that social niche sites are applying new technology to help families (roughly 30 million moms online alone in the US) connect, share and manage life easier. Hopefully, increasing the unity and meaning of families in society.
Interacting with these sites may also aid in crossing generation gaps…as well as enriching the lives of kids and their interaction with their own family content. Potentially shaping their experiences online for parenthood in the future.
Press is helping to let families know what is available out there for them right now…
Where did the the term “Family 2.0″ come from? I stumbled across the thoughts of the name from Julie Leung’s Blog, called “Family 2.0” which I found in March after a search. Julie posted this back in October 05 after a Web 2.0 conference and I have just been able to ‘re-find’.
The name “Family 2.0” was coined by Ryan in a post here, there is also a great blog who’s entry page is a humourous pictorial play on the term “Family 2.0” (very funny, if you click on anywhere on the image it goes to Blog Outer Court’s tech blog) and it’s the top result in Google at the moment for Family 2.0. I felt that someone needed to profile these sites, so I started “Talking Tech on Family 2.0“.
Techcrunch also talked about the niche sites coming way back in March…Minti – Web 2.0 Niche stuff coming. Mike wasn’t too happy about our “walled garden”, but we knew how hot this space could potentially be and wanted to be the first parent-to-parent advice-opedia, so we launched with really bare bones. Shortly after we provided RSS and a bunch of other stuff. I was impressed (I would say that as co-founder of Minti) with our search technology in handling the download of “all” of Wikipeda in private alpha trials, if that is anything to go by?
Learn more on Web 2.0, here is a great (very funny) youtube video that has had over 71 million views..My Space on the Daily Show the Trendspotting segment, brought to The Daily Show by Comedy Central.
*Feel free to contact me or visit My Minti member page…
***Source for this article above was from this “Talking Tech on Family 2.0” blog.
Here come the ‘family 2.0′ sites
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
on August 15, 2006 on 3:49 am
[...] Web 2.0 is the new social web and Family 2.0 is the next hot niche to deliver online tools for parents to make their lives easier….it seems the days being snubbed at for always talking about your kids is changing, you can even post your own article on any topic of advice regarding parenting. From Kalgoorlie to Texas to Canterbury to Shanghai…parents will be able to interact and share at a more meaningful way…See the full story at: “Here comes the family 2.0 sites” Advertisment It was the front page story on News.com (US) next to ebay and Micrsoft’s Vista announcement. This story was also picked up by MSN Tech, MSN Canada, NY Times and ZDNet. The sites profiled got hit will traffic and one site, Minti – Powered by Parents was hit by a DOS attack…More links: Introducing the family 2.0 sites [...]