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Alrighty, here's a proof-of-concept for the linker I mentioned in my last post. After I'd used Flickr for a while, the drag-and-drop organizing became addicting, and I realized that it'd be perfect (I think) for organizing the people in your database. Here's the Flickr layout:...

The e-mails and comments I've gotten over the past week or so have resurrected my resolve to make Beyond a reality. After all, I do have free time; it's just a matter of deciding how I spend it. And while making books is all well and good, I ...

Looking at how things are going right now, it's probably unlikely that Beyond will materialize into any real app in the near future. Next semester is my last and will be jam-packed with classes I need to graduate, so I doubt I'll have much free time to work on ...

Whoa, where'd the spike in readers come from? Feedburner reported 27 yesterday and then today it somehow jumped to 40. Not that I mind, of course. :) And I finally have something to say again, after the somewhat long break. What I feel I need in my own ...

In this short drought of posts, I point you to Hilton's new blog, Enabling the Distributed Family Tree. It's for his master's thesis, and here's the proposal abstract: While there is a large amount of genealogical data available on the Internet today, most of it is only found in ...

Things are rather busy over here, but I'll soon have more time to start writing again. In the meantime, enjoy working on your genealogy. ;)

I meant to blog about this several days ago -- it was announced this past Wednesday -- but I had a paper due. ~sigh~ :) Anyway, FamilySearch Labs has announced their smart pedigree viewer. In a nutshell, it's a Flash-based pedigree chart. Here are my thoughts on ...

I've been swamped lately and haven't done much with genealogy other than stuff at work, but hopefully that'll change. (Oh, the joys of school!) First, thanks to Jasia for her mention of this blog in her Carnival of Genealogy: We've already mentioned Dana Huff's choice to use a blog to ...

[Cross-posted on the BeyondGen list as well. This reiterates a number of thoughts I've already written about on here, along with a number of new ones.] Collaboration is key This seems obvious, but it's worth stating if only because it changes a lot of the dynamics of genealogy software. Instead ...

Over the past few months, a number of people have e-mailed me about helping out with Beyond. I'm grateful for all the interest. :) And because I'd hate to see it disappear -- there are still many apps to be written! -- I've created the BeyondGen group ...