Editing WebBiographies

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| screenshot =<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:WBscreenshot.PNG|Screenshot of WebBiographies' Main Page]] -->

| type = [[Social network service]] with a focus on [[Genealogy]] and [[Biography]]

| company_type = Private [[Startup company|start-up]]

| location_city = [[Denver, Colorado]]

| key_people = [[Scott Purcell]], founder and President

| industry = [[Genealogy]], [[Biography]], [[Social networking service]]s

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'''WebBiographies''' was a website founded by [[Scott Purcell]] with an emphasis on [[genealogy]], [[family tree]]s, [[biography]] and [[memoir]] writing.

==Background==

WebBiographies was founded in April, 2006 by [[Scott Purcell]],<ref name="Bloomberg Boomers">{{cite news|last=Kharif|first=Olga|title=Boomers: A Web-Marketing Bonanza|url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-09-24/boomers-a-web-marketing-bonanza|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=Bloomberg Businessweek|date=September 24, 2006}}</ref> founder of [[Epoch Networks]] and a former Board member of the [[Commercial Internet eXchange]].

In an interview for [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [[Technology Review]], Scott stated that WebBiographies was founded with a "grown-up" audience in mind:

My partner and I were playing around on MySpace and were very impressed by what they were doing. But MySpace is used mainly by young people and to be honest, it's a bit of a chaotic mess. We said, "There should be a MySpace for grownups. Let's do it.'"<ref name="techreview">{{cite web | url=http://www.techreview.com/blog/editors/16818/ | title=Website Helps Armchair Biographers | work=[[Technology Review]] | date=May 09, 2006 | accessdate=April 10, 2012 | author=Roush, Wade | archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070312060004/http://www.techreview.com/blog/editors/16818/ | archivedate=March 12, 2007}}</ref></blockquote>

The family tree utility continued ad infinitum. For instance, if you'd traced your family lineage to the Fifteenth century, WebBiographies' family tree utility would have accommodated it. Each family member or ancestor added to the family tree was instantly assigned a free account, so that users could upload pictures and stories about him or her without sacrificing the user's own storage space.

WebBiographies was also working on [[GEDCOM]] compliance for their online family tree, and users who had resources using this file standard would have been able to upload that information to their family tree.

They also had links to other genealogical resources available elsewhere on the [[internet]].

WebBiographies' genealogy and biography/memoir utilities were combined with [[Web 2.0]] features such as the ability to connect one's web biography with friends and family and "comment" on journal entries.

Online privacy protection features were also offered to users of the service. Users may have chosen to have their blogs, scrapbooks, biographies, or family histories displayed publicly or password-protected and locked from view by all except those whom the user chose. There were three levels of password protection options.

There were also [[weblog]]ging features and one's site was organized like a book, with customizable "Chapters". In addition, every biography page was assigned a unique [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]].

[[Digital photo]]s, [[digital video]], and [[.mp3]]s were shared and/or stored along with users' biography pages. Users were "connected" to one another's biographies, to stay abreast of new journals and photos as they were posted.

WebBiographies also supported foreign language formats and had many members from [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Asia]].

*[http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_4626191,00.html Byte-sized biographies], ''[[Rocky Mountain News]]''

*[http://genealogy.about.com/b/a/255801.htm Web Biographies: Leaving a Legacy], About.com

==Removal from Wikipedia==

The Wikipedia page about the article's deletion says: "this is about a minor blogging site which was started by a notable figure in the internet world in 2006 but generated little or no income and had very little activity after 2010 except for a few entries in 2011. The website has been up for sale for at least 6 months and maybe more. There were discussions about deletion in 2007 and 2012 but no consensus. Now there isn't even a website. Chris55 (talk) 18:54, 7 February 2015 (UTC) "

*[http://www.webbiographies.com/ WebBiographies.com]{{broken link|date=April 2013}}

[[Category:Former genealogy websites]]

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