Family Tree + Photo Album: Amiglia.com
Amiglia.com launched recently promising a truly amazing photo and social software technology for families. The site has been an immediate hit with the blogs and press reaching CNET.com, The New York Times, MSNBC.com, LifeHacker.com, and dozens of others across the world. It also recently won the People’s Choice Award at the Under The Radar Conference.
Amiglia is focused on family networks, tying a visual and interactive family tree with an elegant online photo album. It makes it easy to make linked family albums and connect nuclear and distant family, discover and archive old photos of common relatives and keep up to date with each other. The site includes a family calendar, birthday reminders, family facebook, mp3 uploads for slideshows, video uploads, Skype integration, toddler games, favorite recipes, family stories and bios, trip/vacation maps and powerful photo tagging and search.
Amiglia is in final stages of public beta, and giving away a free year membership to anyone who signs up during this time.
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