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"Commily is all about connecting families and communities together, as its subtitle suggests. Less about far-reaching connections and more about keeping connections in immediate neighborhoods collected and current, the service, which is currently in beta, has a heavy focus on organization. Family schedules. Children's after-school sports and extracurriculars. Parties. Cultural celebrations. Religious festivities. You name it. Commily is looking to make things easier on Mom, Dad, and the rest of the clan.\n\nThe service was first created in Israel, a competitive venue for startups in its own right, but earlier this month the site\u2019s creators, Gil Levonai and Micki Blou began to travel with their product, and unveiled a pilot program for Chicago-area residents, with help from Laura Waas, Commily's vice president of community development, of Elk Grove Village, IL. \nWhile activity on the site is not booming, so to speak, it is slowly gaining in notice. And because the site\u2019s features help users maintain their social calendars quite well, it\u2019s likely that Commily will continue to grow at an increased clip. The site\u2019s planned expansion across a much wider landscape is bound to accelerate its motion uphill. To hasten its ascent, its founders are presently in search of seed funding, both to better its toolset and increase membership.\nCommily is in an interesting position. Clearly an ambitious startup with a desire to serve one of the largest bases of social organization on the Web - the U.S. - its engineers are eager to build a popular network. One as active as it is valuable. But at the same time they recognize they are not alone in their market. Israel is a thoroughly condensed sector within the larger technology world. So while Commily is driven to succeed, and is structurally sound for a relative networking novice, it has company, and there\u2019s only so much venture capital moved about the industry in a given year to finance ideas into serious craft. The figures are increasing every year, but supply is in no way perfectly aligned with demand.\n\n\nOf course, Commily\u2019s strategy itself raises a question. Why the focus on family- and community-sized structures? Such a design is not exactly something bound to become immensely popular.\nWell, it\u2019s arguable that there simply isn\u2019t enough attention on family as far as social networking websites go. Sure, there are a number of family-friendly operations. Amiglia, Famster, Geni, to name a few. The list goes on. But many seem to lean toward ancestral bridge-making. Genealogical details, etc. Commily is more about interacting with those around you right now, who you see regularly. And because families tend to interact with others in the neighborhood, through their kids\u2019 friendships, work-related encounters and so forth, members of the Commily network can invite close associates to share in activities together. All in all, very social, but only so far as family privacy allows.\nThat is a tactic which can work in Commily\u2019s favor. It can also prove fatal. Moving hard at its particular niche is what will take Commily from startup into the next stages of its development. Nothing less."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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