MyHeritage allows families to create their own family website with pictures, videos, events, family trees, and the ability to find ancestors. MyHeritage has received funding from Accel and Index Ventures. MyHeritage has 60 million users across 38 languages. There are 900 million profiles and 21 million family trees on the MyHeritage website.

FamilyLink.com and WorldVitalRecords.com was founded in 2006. The two websites have a huge database of historical content. The websites covers several billion individuals within the census and uses archives from historical newspapers. MyHeritage will now have their first U.S. based office in Utah, which is the home of FamilyLink.com.

FamilyLink.com CEO Paul Brockbank will become the MyHeritage advisory board. FamilyLink.com founder Paul Allen will not be a part of the merger with MyHeritage. Allen is also known for being a co-founder of Ancestry.com.

[TechCrunch]

It’s time for another update on everyone’s favorite fledgling social network, and Google+ appears to be growing up very fast! Click through for stories on calculating Google+’s millions of users, upcoming changes and chances for users to help make those changes happen, and some info on why you can’t use a pseudonym on your Google Profile.

Google+ is supposed to hit 10,000,000 users tomorrow, based on Paul Allen’s analysis. The site saw a 350% increase in users between July 4th and July 10th, calculated by Allen’s surname popularity-based model. Allen is the founder of Ancestry.com, and his Google+ algorithm uses data from the US Census.

In other names-related news, Google will be suspending Google Profiles with pseudonymous usernames. New World Notes cites this as evidence that Google “still doesn’t get social.” It’s also evidence that Google is very serious about Google+  (and thus Google Profiles) being like real life, and wants the virtual identities to stay firmly outside of Google’s realm of reality.

Vic Gundrota promises in a post on his Google+ profile that there will be changes to Google+ next week, based on users’ criticisms of the network. Users have been commenting on the post with what they hope to see updated in the network.

Gmail Engineering Manager Mark Striebeck posted on his own Google+ profile that the Gmail–Google+ integration is on its way. He’s hosting hangouts through the afternoon today, chatting with “little focus groups” of 9 users for 15 minutes at a time. Striebeck says about 50 people will get to take part in this round, and that there will be more in the future.

“While my recollection of many of these events may differ from Paul’s, I value his friendship and the important contributions he made to the world of technology and at Microsoft,” said Bill Gates.

However a majority of Allen’s wealth was created under the leadership of Bill Gates long after Allen had left the company. Microsoft isn’t the only major technology company where a co-founder received a lot of wealth long after leaving the company. Eduardo Saverin’s net worth substantially increased several years after leaving Facebook. Same with Steve Wozniak at Apple.

Two years ago, Allen was recovering from chemotherapy from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Gates was one of Allen’s most frequent visitors. Allen described Gates as being “everything you’d want from a friend, caring and concerned.” However Allen said that he had eavesdropped in a conversation that Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates had about diluting Allen’s equity after he had his first brush with cancer in 1982. Allen said he charged into the room angrily and the dilution never happened after that.

“I had helped start the company and was still an active member of management, though limited by my illness, and now my partner and my colleague were scheming to rip me off,” stated Allen in the book. “It was mercenary opportunism, plain and simple.”

Eventually Allen retained only a certain amount of equity and spent a large portion on several investments like Charter Communciations, Asymetrix Corp., and Digeo Inc. He also bought the Portland Trailblazers and the Seattle Seahawks. Some of these investments paid off and some have failed.

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