Kindo Family Blog

Kindo just launched in Danish! Our last name research pages for Denmark have been live for quite some time now, and finally we have launched Kindo in Danish! It should soon be available via http://kindo.dk as well.

The new language was made possible by Aske and Brian who have translated the whole website voluntarily. Brian had got it rolling and Aske finished it off. Thanks a lot for your help guys!

The new Danish version takes our language toll to 15! The Kindo family is spreading the globe

What a great effort again from our development team! Though half the team is on holiday or honeymoon, we can now present the brand new and wonderful family photo albums. It’s only the first step to more media sharing features for Kindo but already easy to use and:

• quicker than posting printouts
• doesn’t congest your email inbox
• unlimited photo upload
• only accessible to your relatives
• from any computer with internet connection, at any time

Using it is self-explanatory, but we still want to tell you about it in every detail: In the Kindo main navigation you now find a dark blue Photo tab.

Step 1: Name and describe your album

Just click on “Upload photos” and you can start your album straight away: Give it a name, tell your relatives where everything took place and you can even give a brief description of what the album is all about or start sharing some gossip. Share pictures of your graduation or your birthday, holidays abroad or christmas at home or simply your last Sunday on the couch.

Step 2: Upload photos

Just click on browse and select the pic you want to upload, doubleclick or enter, and the same for the next one. It’s quite comfortable unless you want to upload hundreds of pictures to the same album (we will soon be working on an advanced uploader for those cases ). Once you got all photographic memories selected, just click upload and that is almost it.

Step 3: Organise and arrange

You can now easily drag around photos to rearrange the order in which they will appear later on. The first picture will become the album cover! Just hit save when you are done and that’s it.

By the way: You can always flip back and forth between the edit album, upload photos or organise section. And you can even add more photos or rearrange everything later on, and you can even add photos to your relatives albums! So you can put together all the pics that several people took during the common Easter holiday.

And the best thing is that all your family members will get to know about your new photos through the family newsfeed. With one click they can go there, flip through the album and leave you comments.

Finally: We have an official press release about the family photo albums as well. You can find it on our press page.

You might have voted yourself or read about the poll on our blog. We gave it some more weeks and an astonishly 1600 people gave us insights into their family’s situations. And the results are stunning.

A vast majority of families is actually international! 54% of the families on a global level have relatives living abroad. So probably many of those, who moved to another country, got to know another culture and maybe even learned another language. If you are a bit lofty and emotional you might say: This is freedom.

It definitely is an indication for the globalization that doesnt only happen on an economic level, but on a personal one as well. It is the time of international exchange and understanding and Kindo wants to foster that.

Here are some more of the results in details:

• In total it’s more than half of the families that have relatives living outside their homecountry
• 61% of the British and 68% of the American families are spread out beyond their countries
• Russia has very international families with 76% having experienced family members to move outside the country.
• Turkey seems to have very local families and only 32% have family members outside Turkey.

That’s the most interesting stuff. As you can see, we have put some more data in graphs, so it’s easier to understand.

All the votes were analyzed by location of the user – we got them from 54 different countries – and language, so to determine nationality we used a mixure of those two criteria. It’s not been a study with scientific entitlement, which makes the great results even more astonishing.
If you do scientific research in this field don’t hesitate to get in touch, maybe we can set up some more detailed undertakings in the future.

By the way: We have made a press release (pdf) out of that as well

It always feels great, if users tell us that Kindo really helps their families. We get a lot of feedback, and we are always interested in hearing all your opinions (so keep writing ).

Last week Simon got an Email from our French user Fatima, who uses Kindo bilingual with her Arabic relatives in North Africa (”le Maghreb”). It’s so nice and she agreed to her quote being published, so here is what she wrote us:

“Hello,

I just bumped into Kindo, started my tree and added my relatives [...] I’m delighted to see that Kindo is translated in Arabic. I live in France and will now be able to keep in close touch with my family living on the other side of Mediterranean Sea in Algeria.
Thanks a lot and keep the effort going!

Fatima Bouzidi”

We are happy to hear that, and it’s exactly, why we have built Kindo! Let’s keep it going…

The São Paulo - edition of the Swedish free newspaper Metro has mentioned us on the same page with Steve Jobs and the new Macbook Air

So read on the very top:
“Site permite criar rede social só para a família”, yeah that’s right.

Thanks again to Henrique for arranging that. You might have read about him when he joined our team last week.

We are glad that you like Kindo and go on talking about us. It was obviously the Chinese and Arabic languages that make you happy. Internetworld, one of the biggest internet newspapers in Sweden for example, has put Martin on the front page.

And it is the core family networking features of Kindo as well that caught your attention and our Team is always happy to talk with you about it. Simon for example got featured in a seven minute video interview on Intruders, that is a follow up of “le web 3″ - conference in Paris last month.

And you can see that France is going crazy about Kindo by looking at two more great posts on Emob and the French version of Techcrunch.

Thanks for your coverage and stay in touch!

Together with our second press release (pdf) that accompanied the gifts page, we just launched a page for press support. Find it on the top right of the blog behind that small blue link “press”, by clicking here or by just typing kindo.com/blog/press.

It contains lots of material and information that you can use, if you want to write about Kindo… no matter, if its for newspapers, magazines, TV or your blog. Just get in touch, if you have other wishes or need more stuff.

The local versions of our gifts page are released! This comes together with the announcement of great partnerships for Kindo and all our users:

• Europe’s leading online photo printing service Photobox
• UK’s leading online florist Arena Flowers
• The fun and creative printing service MOO

“Photos are central to familiesʼ memories, and with Kindo we can get in touch with families all over the world” says Stan Laurent, CEO of Photobox/Photoways, Europeʼs leading online photo printing services in Europe. On photobox.com you can print photos as well as lots of other things like photobooks, calendars and cards.

Arena Flowers is another great match with Kindo - not only because everybody loves flowers, but because it has a sense for social responsiblitiy, shared by Kindo. “All our flowers comply with the recommendations of the ‘Fair Flowers Fair Plants Organisation’. We’re a young company, but we think about social responsibility from the start, and so does Kindo” says Will Wynne CEO of the leading online florist in the UK.

Moo.com dreams up new tools that help people turn their virtual content into beautiful print products for the real world. You might know it already from our earlier posts.

So check out the new gifts page by clicking here and browse our new partners’ great offers!