The Daily Beat: 2/19/07
-The Wall Street Journal last week featured a story about Los Angeles-based Geni.com, one of the more interesting local startups that have recently launched. As the article points out, genealogy web sites/tools are not a new concept, but Geni’s free “social networking” approach is a departure from other genealogy sites. Even though the company faces numerous challenges, not the least of which are technical in nature and include the ever-present concerns about privacy, the company is led by an experienced team and may be on to something here. Article: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sites (sub req’d after 2/22/07)
-Fonality included in list of top 25 VOIP startups – VOIP News last week included Los Angeles-based Fonality in its list of “25 Most Interesting VOIP Startups”. Fonality offers IP-based telephony PBX products based on an open-source technology called Asterisk. For more on Asterisk and Fonality’s business, VOIP News includes a good overview of the technology and the players involved in the Asterisk open source IP telephony market: What’s So Great About Asterisk?
