Indian entrepreneur Manish Arora has launched a web 2.0 family social network called Kincafe that endeavors to bring families and friends together. It’s all about connecting, bonding and cherishing loved ones, the ones you grew up with, the ones you care at center of your heart.
The user interface is too good and the registration process is so simple. The site also allows the users to share stories, news, blogs, photo albums and videos. They have a FAQ page, which I suppose will give answer to all of your queries.
Still, I wanted to know a few more things. So, I approached Kincafe team with few questions.
1. There are a number of social networks seeing the day’s light everyday. How do you see the future of Kincafe.com?
We are a Social network for families with a blend of genealogy 2.0. Central to our offering is a highly connected family tree that families can build collaboratively. Members can also build their own private social network of relatives and friends and share family treasures like photo albums, birthdays, anniversaries, recipes, announcements and family stories. Our family tree is an interactive navigation wizard to reach to content published by family members without having any need to remember numerous different URLs and links to family published content.
Our service enables geographically distant family members to stay in touch with loved ones around the globe. We keep track of latest updates from one’s network and provide that information right upon login.
2. Is it very much like the MySpace and the other social networks or is there something unique?
Content wise our focus is family generated content like photo albums of a new born, video clip of your toddler’s first steps and grandma’s recipes etc. that people want to share securely with other family members. Users have full control of what content is shared with whom. For example one may decide to share full birth dates (including year) only within your direct network; only day and month with your 2nd degree connections; and none at all with public.
3. Could you please highlight the “user interface” and “technology part” of your site?
Our UI is based on web 2.0 technologies, in particular we are using Ajax, yahoo UI library and DHMTL, and our backend is based on very robust and scalable infrastructure. Some of the key features in UI include:
*Drag and drop based photo album creation
*Themes and layouts for photo albums
*Rotate, Zoom and reposition pictures within the album
*Navigation controls in family tree
*Integration of TinyMCE editor for writing stories, recipes et
Well, it would be interesting to know how they are going to execute the things, check for the copyright issues primarily with video clips though they shay users will have full control over the content. Time will tell the rest and I wish all the very best for Kincafe’s bright future.
