Big day across the airwaves for Kinzin. Tonight, the CBC is airing a story about online privacy and security in the wake of the MySpace breach. Michael Fergusson is featured in the story with his take on social networking and the privacy issue, and speaks in reference to Kinzin’s latest application These Are My Kids. Catch the story airing on CBC local Vancouver news tonight at 6pm. (Thanks to Tod for sending them this way!)
Sticking with TV Fame, Episode 140 of The Lab With Leo Laporte airs today on G4 Tech TV in Canada (The How-To Channel in Australia). Michael does a segment with Leo, talking about designing and building applications in the era of social networking. That interview will be made available on The Lab website after it airs on television.
Not only has Kinzin been busy creating web applications to make life easier for families and friends to connect online - things have gotten a lot prettier too!
Check out the new Kinzin.com homepage.
Master designer Frank Lee and the Kinzin team have been working on smart and efficient ways to house their applications and make them available to you in a quick and easy fashion. Have a click through and discover all the private and unique ways for you to stay in touch with your family!
Kinzin will be showcasing their latest application, “These Are My Kids”, at the third installment of Launch Party Vancouver this week. Sun Microsystems, one of the key sponsors of this event, will be unleashing their Start-Up Essentials program, and Kinzin has a neat connection to Sun as well: Joyent, Kinzin’s first choice for an application infrastructure, uses the Sun Fire X4500 server. Michael Fergusson will be there to hold court at the Lamplighter Pub in Gastown, along with a few other Kinzin team members. Launch Party is a great chance for local technologists, community builders, investors and sponsors to all gather to meet one another and discover more about the great technology produced in Vancouver.
“These Are My Kids” is launching next week and we’re excited for parents to discover the application that solves many of those problems that often come with posting photos and updates of your kids for the loved ones who want to watch them grow. Read more about the application and its features.
If you’re in Vancouver, come down to the Lamplighter between 5:30 - 8:30 this Friday and meet the many companies and technology builders in Vancouver that will be there to show their work, meet new people, and have a lot of fun!
Kinzin’s newest application, “These Are My Kids”, is ready. Almost. The latest app from Kinzin is currently in the Beta phase, soon to make the leap to full launch. The app is quite stunning as-is in every way, in design and technology - it’s easy, efficient, creative, useful, private and fun - but we’d like to perfect it, so we need your help and your feedback.
A Little Bit About The Application “These Are My Kids”:
In a few points, or less, here’s what the app is all about:
- Resolves all of your photo headaches and problems of multiple publishing networks and accounts - it’s an all-in-one!
- Easy access to your personal photos by invite only - no sign-ups, no accounts, no hassle for the end user (your defined friends)
- It’s Private - Only those friends explicitly invited to view your photo books will be able to see your content
- You’re creating beautiful photographic books of your children’s lives to keep forever (soon to be available to print as well!)
- Photos and Comments are delivered to all of your loved ones with the greatest ease, inside of outside of Facebook, and even in the mail (coming soon!)
Add “These Are My Kids” here and let us know what you think! You can comment within the application (there is a prompt along the top of the app), or join the Beta Testers Group for the app and comment in the Discussion Board. You can of course comment here as well.
While Kinzin is getting set to release their next web application that will allow families more opportunities to share, Dave Olson at Raincity Studios posted this episode on Raincity Radio just before the Holiday season. It’s a great interview (in fine Dave O. fashion) with Kinzin’s Michael Fergusson - there’s a lot in this conversation that is interesting and inspiring: on Kinzin, web applications, privacy, family, our online habits and how Kinzin wants to work along side of, or “on top of”, social networks to help the online world share what’s important and valuable to them.
Get the podcast here.
photo credit: Dave O.
