Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style genealogy and social networking web sites for families, has connected the company's service with the popular Facebook social networking web site. Geni said that users can now connect their Facebook account to Geni, allowing users to use Facebook's standard invite tools to invite relatives to join Geni's family tree serviecs. The new Facebook connection also allows users to post their Geni activity to their Facebook newsfeed, the Facebook feature which posts status updates and information to other users.

West Hollywood-based family tree site Geni.com said Friday that the firm has made a number of updates to the firm's services. Geni is backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. Tags: geni genealogy family tree web Among the changes, the firm said that it has made two of the firm's "Pro" features--Statistics and Lists--free to all of its users. Other updates include the ability to export address books to CSV files, and better matching on its profiles.

Hollywood-based online family networking and family tree site Geni officially announced late last week that the firm has launched a new, Facebook application . According to Geni, the new application will allow its users to access such features as building family trees, getting family news and birthday reminders, and more. Geni is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Tags: geni facebook application social networkin

Hollywood-based Geni , an online site that allows users to share family trees and network with relatives and family, is the latest Web 2.0 According to Geni, its new pro accounts will cost $50.00 Geni also said, along with the new Pro accounts, that it has added features for more advanced searching for data, plus "tree statistics" which allow users to see statistics such as the gender mix of their families, average life site to add "pro" accounts to their services. annually, or $4.95

Hollywood-based Geni , which operates an online site for networking with family and tracking family trees, released a new feature Wednesday that allows its users to filter out cousins on the site. According to Geni, it has a new "hide" filter which will help users find cousins using the site that they haven't met yet. Geni's web site allows family members and Geni is funded by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund, and is headed by ex-Paypal co-founder David Sacks. READ MORE>> ...Tags: Tags: tree social family web2 geni networking genealog

West Hollywood-based Geni said this week that the firm has improved the firm's site, which allows users to create family trees and network with family members. Geni's Web 2.0 Tags: geni genealogy family tree networking social web The firm said that it has enhanced the ability to find duplicate profiles in the service, with automatic advanced searches when users view a profile. The service said that the new capability will help its users see how many matches there are, whether or not those are connected or not connected to a users.

West Hollywood-based family tree site Geni has rolled out a slew of updates for the service, saying today that it has added features to help users collaborate with others, map out locations, and see recent photos. Tags: geni genealogy family tree social networking web Among the new features, the firm said it will now allow users to collaborate with others when building a family tree. The new collaboration feature--only available to paid, "Pro" user on the service--makes it easier for different users to view and edit profiles in the system, and merge duplicate profiles.

West Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed, online family tree and networking site, said today that it has added a number of new features to its site, including the ability to search for similar profiles on the site, and improved access to popular features. According to Geni, the new features include the ability to look for profiles with similar names and birth and death dates, to help users find information on relatives that might have been entered by other users. In addition, the firm said it has created new tabs for accessing statistics and relatives on the site, among other navigational changes.

West Hollywood-based Geni.com , the online family tree and genealogy site backed by the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures, told its users today that it has created a new "Geni Lab" for experimental features from the firm. Geni said its Geni Labs effort will allow users to experiment with features that the company is working on, with no guarantee that they will be updated or supported. As part of the lab, the company said it has created a new feature to enable translation of pages on the site, tapping Google Translate for the translations. READ MORE>> ...Tags:

West Hollywood-based Geni, and instant messaging spinout Yammer have both raised $5M in funding from the firms' existing backers, Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund, according to regulatory filings and reports. Geni is a high profile, family social networking and genealogy site headed by former Paypal co-founder David Sacks, and Yammer is the Twitter-like instant messaging spinout of Geni, focused on businesses. The details of the Geni funding were first reported by PEHub; with details on Yammer's latest round reported on TechCrunch this morning. Requests