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Today’s been one of those days where I’ve focussed on one thing only, for the whole day, so that we could release a major new feature in 14 languages. So that literally means just doing one thing. OK, so I deleted some emails, and answered one or two, but by and large apart […]

So it’s a few weeks after SxSW now and I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages but haven’t had the time or energy to do so for a while now… so here it is
The last day for me was primarily about catching up with work, then preparing for the core conversation […]

I’m sitting in the airport at Chicago and am just about to get on a plane back to London. Feeling more tired and whacked out than in a long time; probably the last SxSw…
Anyways, if you’re reading this and you like Kindo, give it a another look today - we’ve just added photo’s.
So, give […]

Spent a lot of today working, so not as much detail as yesterday
Scaling boot camp was pretty interesting and some new ideas coming out of that. Key take homes were:

understand what has to happen in order to go into “scaling mode” - what are the red flags?
don’t scale until you have to
know […]

A/B Testing was pretty interesting but kinda strightforward theoretically. Interesting to see how Yahoo!, eBay and LinkedIn approach testing in different ways, and some ideas around testing ideas for user interaction and design vs results. Sometimes you get results you didn’t expect, design or plan for.
Red Dragon - Internet in China:

Chinese market is […]

So I’m at SxSW again, and really loving the vibe. Missed it last year due to a little project called Kindo, but made a point of coming this year.
I’m not really sure what it is about “South By” that makes it so cool, apart from bringing together the best people in the industry, so […]

I’m at SxSW in Austin, Texas and am wondering whether there are any other Africans here?
Ping me if you are, would love to hook up for a beverage or two

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This morning we all got into the office and started the day as usual. Get in around 9, get the day started with review of actions (sharpen the saw) and meetings that need to happen, then the daily SCRUM (yesterday, today), then get to it… We knew there was an important press release […]

I’m extremely proud to say that due to some hard work from Ali in our office, we’ve released Arabic into Kindo… so now you get web2.0 family tree building and family social networking in Arabic, and 11 other languages…
Pretty neat eh? Check it out and blow your mind…

kindo, arabic, international, languages, […]

_ TechCrunch en français » [fr]
Kindo lance la version française de son service de généalogie nouvelle génération
Le moins que l’on puisse dire c’est que Geni, un service nouvelle génération pour créer un arbre généalogique a inspiré pas mal d’autres startups et de clones. La semaine dernière même TechCrunch US nous apprenait que la société […]

Some linkage and a good review from Webware
_ Build a fancy looking family tree with Kindo | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Besides the very basic and simple implementation of the tree creation, there’s also an integrated social network for families who want to dig a little deeper. Each family member gets […]

We’ve been hard at work since we went live with Kindo, and yesterday did another major release which we’re really proud of…
Check it out, you should start to see the first signs of our social direction, which sets us apart from being “yet another genealogy application”… 11 Languages helps too…
_ Kindo - Some […]

Pretty cool to know that we’re developing something that can do this, for people in 9 languages spread across 116 countries
_ Kindo - Profile in a kindo family tree dating back to 1702
We recently had a posting on our forum where one of our users, Rudolf Hager told us that he and his […]

Kindo is looking for ambitious, talented, enthusiastic and motivated flash developers to join the family.
Must have:
Flash experience with an expert knowledge of ActionScript 2 and 3
Object-oriented PHP 5, MYSQL 5 including stored procs and views, good
AJAX and JavaScript and a decent understanding of CSS and xHTML
Exposure to Open source technologies/frameworks, eg PEAR, […]