Whew!
We just released an update to 2.0 that’s chock full of great new features and enhancements. We hope you’re as excited about them as we are. There’s so much yet to come over the coming months, but for September, here’s our list:
Themes!
One of our most requested features is for the ability to change the design [...]
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If you’re a newer reader of this blog, here’s a link to our first post about why we’re building a new myfamily.com 2.0 and migrating our loyal 1.0 members’ sites and content to this new experience.
Back in March, Dave Quick posted the 1.0 to 2.0 site migration plan. It’s a great post that give high-level [...]
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I thought it would be a good time to revisit a few earlier topics and restate a number of things for the sake of all the new visitors to the blog, and to the myfamily.com 2.0 beta experience. As many loyal myfamily 1.0 customers know, this service has been a great place for families [...]
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Member Activity by Age Group (contribution of content), originally uploaded by Sean at myfamily.com.
You asked for some age data, so ta-da! Myfamily.com 2.0 member activity by age group. Each age column represents the makeup of all members on 2.0 for that age group, as distributed across the three levels of activity. Enthusiasts are [...]
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Here’s a quick summary of some of the work that the team has been focused on over the past month. The news area is one that we know needs work and we are making changes to address a number of issues. We’ve heard that many of you would prefer a single news thread view and [...]
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% of myfamily.com 2.0 members by age, originally uploaded by Sean at myfamily.com.
We’ve had a lot of discussion about the age of the members for whom we design and develop myfamily.com 2.0, so I thought Michael (my GM) thought it would be a good idea to post a chart showing the age range [...]
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Before I start filling you in on the migration story, let me say hello to all of the MyFamily.com v1.0 customers out there that are reading this. I’m Dave Quick, a member of the MyFamily.com team hard at work on the MyFamily.com v2.0 Beta site.
A significant amount of my time has recently been dedicated to [...]
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We’d love your help naming a feature. The feature is an organizational structure for photos. Gather a group of photos in your site, give it a title and/or description. It can be shared, blogged, purchased as prints, photo books, etc., and you can arrange your photos inside it. You get the idea. The feature is [...]
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Hi, I’m Michael Graff, the general manager of the myfamily.com team that is developing a new version of the myfamily.com site. I want to thank Sean for being our “chief blogger” at myfamily.com – I’ve had great intentions to contribute but just haven’t jumped in yet (until now).
On Sunday, I sent an email to [...]
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After nearly 8 years, myfamily.com is about to go through a complete overhaul.Very soon, we’ll be launching the first of many releases. An all new myfamily.com service — which we’re calling (if you can believe it) myfamily.com 2.0 beta. I know, original.
by the way, we’re calling the current site “original myfamily.com” or ”myfamily.com 1.0″
What does beta mean? The [...]
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