The struggle for personal networking.

Today it’s very difficult to create online networks that reflect our real lives. The relationships, events, self expression and experiences that mirror personal life online occur and reside in many unstructured, unrelated and unconnected ways. Managing family, friendships, special interest groups and personal associations splinters relationships across many online destinations and technologies. Personal content also exists as isolated data, personal entries, web-pages and media archives; all casually tied to our user accounts and profiles.

Today’s social networking sites don’t give a meaningful structure to relationships or experiences; and their reliance on youth culture and entertainment driven applications can bring noise and distraction to personal life. Blogs can give personal life a centralized and personal setting; but because these online journals reside publicly, outside our connected social communities, they aren’t relationship driven, and require time, motivation and experience to create and promote. Even as new life-streaming technologies successfully aggregate and broadcast the daily activities of the webs most experienced Web 2.0 users; cherished personal moments and larger personal histories remain underserved, unprotected, and devoid of meaningful context.

Personal content and relationships can’t realize their enormous value potential existing in so many disparate formats and unconnected locations. Today’s online technologies don’t classify or organize relationships and activities in a meaningful way. This blurs the lines between personal and public life, eroding distinctions that help keep our lives meaningful and manageable. The growing streams of data attached to our social networks can feel like walls of noise. The amount of technology currently needed to produce a meaningful, manageable and secure personal-life network prevents these important opportunities from entering the mainstream. Our most valuable and intimate human connections are the least served by today’s online social landscape.

Mainstream consumers are anxious to find easier ways to preserve memories, manage relationships, and bringing long-term value to their personal experiences and online activities.

A focus on connecting personal life.

KinDigs is a company focused solely on structuring, managing and connecting personal lives and relationships online. KinDigs will use each logged member’s personal relationships and attributes to create a dynamic user interface that organizes, connects and serves their immediate family, extended family groups (called Living Families), ancestry, varied friendships and group associations. KinDigs also provides a highly-structured framework for documenting and connecting news, life events, digital media files, and many other forms of personal expression. KinDigs unique architecture will help users maximize and preserve the important connections between their relationships, personal content, shared moments and life histories; bringing a new level of relevance, connectivity, convenience and security to online networking.

A ready-made personal environment.

Most of our users will discover KinDigs through an email from a Family Community Leader (an actual family member) inviting them to join a newly formed family network. By registering and approving the relationships and attributes tied to their member account they’ll claim ownership of their Social Graph, Life Log, and Member Spaces. At first login these users will find a personal platform that accurately reflects their family relationships. They’ll also find personal spaces that document their births and marriages, with tools to add and manage the friendships, group relationships and life events that complete their personal Life Log and Network. Members then enjoy easy access to all the members and Life Logs that comprise their community, with tools to manage access to their data and personal entries. This provides a unique, ready-made environment for managing, documenting, sharing and preserving personal life.

Creating a new standard for online relationships and documented life.

KinDigs will embrace Data-Portability and OpenID, allowing users to bring their KinDigs Social Graph and Life Log to other popular online destinations. The KinDigs Social Graph and Life Log are designed to deliver a new standard for viewing and managing personal relationships and personal history across the World Wide Web. KinDigs technologies will also enable advertisers to reach highly targeted customers across the Internet, bringing users greater ad relevancy with guaranteed privacy and anonymity.

The safety, privacy and security of users and their content will always remain at the forefront of our mission and operational practices. Users will own their content and control all usage of their personal data. KinDigs goal is to bring our personal lives and relationships into a safer and more meaningful digital age.

Paul Daigle
CEO
KinDigs
Portland OR