Friends reunited, the hugely successful UK version of Classmates has launched a spin-off called Genesconnected – allowing collaborative sharing of family tree information. The idea is not new but the link between the alumni sites and genealogy is.
The three most successful eCommerce sites in terms of number of paid subscribers are Classmates, Match.com and Ancestry.com – this is not surprising, they are all about networks of people and so is the Internet.
What about the future of online genealogy, dating etc.? Weblogs perhaps show the way. What is yet to happen with these activities is that they become distributed in the way that weblogs have done with online discussions.