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Kinzin chosen as a finalist for “Excellence in Social Media Applications”

Kinzin has been chosen as one of the three finalists for a Canadian New Media Award: “Excellence in Social Media Applications”! I’m thrilled that the selection committee has chosen Kinzin, and proud to be mentioned together with the other finalists. The team here at Kinzin is working hard to produce fun and safe social networking environments for parents and families, and it’s great to get them some well-deserved recognition.

Also, a big thanks needs to go out to our customers, who have put us among the fastest-growing community sites anywhere. Everything we do, we do for you. :-)

More mainstream media attention for “Are You Normal?”

Whew. What a week!

Last week, 24 Hours Newspaper published a story about Kinzin’s Facebook plugin Are You Normal? in their print and online magazine (photo on the left, by Rob Kruyt, that accompanied the article). In the article, I’m quoted as saying that we’ve reached 90,000 people around the world. Thanks to the power of the network effect, as of this writing we’ve already passed 245,000 (from 184 countries!) and still going strong.

The point of this post is not to toot our own horn (at least, not only to do that :-), but to mention for your interest that the next set of survey questions we publish will be written in part by our user base. We’ve had questions submitted from Finland, Spain, Greece, Australia, and the UK so far. I’m very excited about this in particular. As with many things, when we’re talking about what’s “normal”, what we choose to measure is often as interesting as the results.

I’ll keep you posted as things progress…

Front Page News: Our Facebook App In “24 Hours Vancouver”

Are You Normal? front page of 24 HoursAsking the question Are You Normal? is front page material today on Vancouver’s 24 Hours daily. Writer Darcy Makwana caught up with Kinzin’s Michael Fergusson for all the skinny on our Facebook application, “Are You Normal?” that hits 100, 000 users today.

Read the full article here.

Paul Prescod, the application lead developer will be giving a demo and will present the technical aspects of the app at Vancouver’s first Facebook Garage event, tonight at 5:30 - it’s first come, first serve at the door, so get there early to find a seat!




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