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"Kindo has announced seed funding from a group of investors that includes Saul and Robin Klein of The Accelerator Group, former Last.fm chairman and Ricardo founder Stefan Glanzer, and several founding engineers of Skype, who went on to build the venture capital firm ASI. The amount of financing has not been disclosed.\nThe basic framework of Kindo is very simple. It\u2019s a website that allows you to build a family tree - and network with and learn about the personal Web you create. Consider it one part Facebook or LinkedIn and a small bit Ancestry.com.\nNo, it doesn\u2019t have the automation of Ancestry (or Genealogy.com, to name another service charting historic lineage). And the networking features are few. There\u2019s no poking or news feeding to speak of. But the idea behind the startup lightly dips into both pools. And if you\u2019re willing to do some brief work to map out familial connections, from immediate relatives to first and second cousins, you might actually get some use out of it. Just be sure that most of your primary connections are privy to the ways of the Web and can operate devices like email services, etc.\nThe way in which you establish your family tree on Kindo is quite straightforward. First, you create an account. Since minimal information is required, this takes only a short moment. You are then transferred to a visual graph, where you input similarly general data for the individuals who created you. Any siblings can be designated your closest links as well.\nAfter you\u2019ve completely those initial steps, well, the sky\u2019s the limit. (Figuratively speaking.)\nThere\u2019s really no telling whether Kindo will prove successful. While it\u2019s a decent concept on paper - in that it is strictly a family-only construct - the volume of networking tools both basic and complex launched in weeks, months and years past is altogether too much to handle for many Web users. Other businesses have already spent a great deal of time amassing memberships from the growing social ocean. Kindo must work amidst much larger forces to make a name for itself. The hill it now confronts is a fairly steep and sharp one, for sure. Perhaps the initial round of exposure from the financial infusion mentioned above will grant it some strong momentum.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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