Today we finally added another book to the MemoryPress home page.
We hope that we will soon win out the keyword “family history publishing” in searches on Google, Yahoo, Live, and Ask.
So this means that I need to get as many people as possible to link to this new URL: http://memorypress.familylearn.com/family-history-publishing
Once we get the keywords for the five books we have figured out, then we will begin added others to the homepage.
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Today Mashable mentioned MemoryPress on their blog. Here is what they wrote:
MemoryPress is a recently launched service that lets you create physical books, scrapbooks, if you will, with its Mashup tools.
With MemoryPress, you can create a scrapbook of your choice, for a wedding, a new baby, or a memoir. The service will cost you about $50 per book, and works in a similar manner to PanRaven. The mashup part comes in when you see you have the option to import content from Microsoft Word or a Blog. There’s also integration with Flickr photos as well.
The editor has all the necessary tools for document creation, which seems to be from a different service than MemoryPress. This can be somewhat confusing, as it seems like the two aspects of the services aren’t quite interconnected, but the two options are part of the FamilyLearn site. At any rate, you won’t be able to try all the new features of MemoryPress, as they’re not all live yet.
A similar service include Scrapblog .
In regards to the comment about FamilyLearn. FamilyLearn is the company that built MemoryPress. All the books that are created on MemoryPress are archived (at no extra charge) so that they will be searchable for future generations on FamilyLearn. FamilyLearn’s Mission is to be the world’s most enjoyed family library. MemoryPress is just a tool to help it get there.
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I love firefox. Here is a link to start a firefox account!
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I just found Jake Jarvis’ website Litesum.com. You type in a topic that you want to learn about and wait for results. A brief summary of the requested topic will appear instantly. I will be using it in the next few weeks to see if it sticks.
The first thing I typed in was “imemorybook” to see what it would do. Surprisingly it found iMemoryBook and pulled it up. It sourced wikipedia.
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Today, I found the first funeral home I have ever seen with a blog! Good job Barkdull Funeral Home of Ohio.
I was doing research for the upcoming Ohio Funeral Home Convention this week. We find that those funeral homes that have websites are most inclined to love our family history books.
Here is what Barkdull said introducing the blog:
“Most people find the funeral business a little creepy but we’re going to try to educate the public about the importance of the funeral in the grieving process, help understand the growing trend towards cremation and the options families have with that type of disposition, and show that there are tools to help with the financial side of things.”
If this blog is done tastefully I think it will be a powerful way to help families.
I used to think Funeral Homes were creepy as well. We are now the family history company for the Death Industry. I am trying to make the adjustment.
Update: I just posted their blog on dig at the first funeral home in history to start a blog. It will be fun just to see what happens. Here is a link to go and digg it.Â
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Today Yahoo! announced that they are going to be offering unlimited storage to their Email users. It makes sense. Recently have switched all my photos over to Yahoo Photos. I uploaded 300 photos from my laptop to their system. It is the best photo storing system I have seen, and trust me I have used a lot of photo sharing sites while doing research for FamilyLearn.
This announcement from Yahoo comes at a great time. I have filled 91% of my 2.5 year old Gmail account. I prefer Yahoos user interface. UI is about the only thing really holding Google back (if you can say that anything is holding them back). The only thing that could keep me with Google at this point is Google Docs. I use Docs daily. So do a bunch of my friends at school.
I always have to ask myself how long this free model will be able to sustain itself. In order for the ad model to work you have to have millions of users. Free is so common that it doesn’t have any buzz anymore. It will be interesting to see how new businesses innovate to compete with free.
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I think I have turned into a geek. Two things indicate this to me. First, I use web 2.0 Google applications like Docs, and Gmail. Second I use FireFox and I load it on about every computer I touch.
Here is a very interesting interview with Yahoo!’s Jeff Bonforte. He explains that the primary reason Google is struggling with market adoption is that they are run by engineers and struggle with usability. I couldn’t agree more. Yahoo! mail has 270 million email users vs Google’s 70 million. Yahoo! messenger is second only to MSN messenger.
“Usability to consumers at the mass level is the most difficult problem to solve on the internet,” Jeff said. “There is lots of stuff that we can put out there for dorks and geeks like me, because we eat it up. But actually getting to something that is usable is extremely complex.”
Perhaps Google would take over the world if they would just take a little of their billions of dollars and put them into their user interfaces for applications.
As I have been heavily involved in designing the UI for iMemoryBook, I couldn’t agree with Jeff Bonfort more.
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Dick Morris [a political commentator], looked at the four leading GOP presidential contenders in 2008 — John McCain, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani — and noted, “The only one of these guys who hasn’t had multiple wives is the Mormon.”
With Mitt Romney running for president there is going to be a lot of discussion about Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). When I got this email I had to post it.
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