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arcalife.com: A New Family Community To Store and Share Your Family Experiences

Posted by on December 19, 2008 1 comment

arcalife is a new online family community where you can store all of your life’s greatest memories, photos, videos, events and moments, while connecting with your family, searching your family genealogy and creating a recorded history for future generations.

arcalife.com is currently in Beta and has a long list of new features, additions and improvements coming very soon. Some of the highlights of the arcalife experience come in a few dynamic ways to showcase your life in several really creative features. One of the coolest tools is called “Time Capsule”. As a member you can store, or “lock away”, memories, wisdom, or anything at all for someone of a future generation to discover. Another neat item is the multi-media “Life Cube”: load up your favourite photos or a specific time line of life photos and view the 3-dimensional animation. (You know that whole Sesame Street segment, “This is the story of your life”? A HUGE fan favourite. “Life Cube” entertains and gives you that same warm and fuzzy feeling.)

arcalife is the brain-child of Vancouver-based entrepreneur, Paul Taylor, and is pieced together by his savvy development team who cranked out what you see now in mere months – there’s plenty more greatness down the road.

Why is arcalife a step well beyond some of its currently more known competitors?

  • The Integration piece enables users to pull content from favourite networks online, making content creation easy and seamless. You can import photos from your Facebook collection into arcalife – importing content from Flickr, YouTube and mySpace is soon to follow.
  • Engaging Unique Features: ‘Time Capsule’ and ‘Life Cube’ bring your memories to life… even after you’re long gone!
  • A secure family community network that brings genealogy into the mainstream – you can search your family history and create a dynamic family tree to share with your loved ones.
  • It’s completely free! But if you need to access more storage space or require greater flexibility there are different levels of paid membership to suit your needs.


A quick and easy pop-up exemplifying ways to use arcalife.

Check out arcalife.com and read more about arcalife on Killer Start-ups.

arcalife would like to meet you online and hear about your experiences. Join the arcalife Facebook Fan Page to show your support and start a Discussion Topic to pass along your valuable feedback.

The Happiest Frog: BC’s Green Directory

Posted by on January 24, 2008 No comments

happy frog I just joined another social network, shocking, I know, but this one is different and even a little extra special.

Happyfrog.ca is a Vancouver-born network that is starting to nurture their sustainable community through conversations, knowledge-sharing and every day practical tips, with a focus on green and healthy living.

My first go at the community was, in a word, really fun. And that’s not just because that’s what their logo tells me to do. The next word I’d use to describe my inaugural experience: useful. Practical is another. HappyFrog.ca truly is a user-generated space online, with its’ members providing the knowledge that the rest of us benefit from. It’s not too long before you can’t help but give a review or cast a vote. And why not? You’re directly contributing to your community. Reviewing a yoga studio, a physiotherapist or a park not only helps other consumers, but also provides small businesses and green organizations with feedback, promotion, and no doubt helps them generate more ideas to better serve the community.

The topic directory has pretty much listings on everything from eco travel to naturopaths to restaurants to spas. It’s all there. And rated by all of us. So it’s real.

Be sure to visit “Ask the frog” – this is a fantastic feature. It’s the site’s community Q&A – “dark greenies” can share tips with “light greenies”. (And then we all get beamed up by Scottie.) It’s pretty cool – users can throw any question out to the masses and get thoughtful responses from random users, so you’re meeting and conversing with other people using the site as well. You can also post events, add your blog to the blogroll, and what’s even better, small businesses and organizations can post their logos, business ideas and descriptions and promote themselves to the site – at zero cost.

It’d be great to get more people on the site, contributing to a greener, sustainable community by being a member and help direct the rest of the community to a healthier Vancouver: Go Green, Frogs!