ZOOOF.COM Launches New Generation Family Trees Website

ZOOOF.COM Launches New Generation Family Trees Website

March 08, 2007

    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March 8 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
ZOOOF.COM, a leading online genealogy service and social
networking website announces the launch of its family trees
website, available in 35 languages.

    Built on the theory of "six degrees" of
separation, in which all individuals are supposedly
connected to one another in some way by no more than
"six degrees" of relationships, ZOOOF.COM is
striving to break down cultural and political barriers to
show the connections. 

    Following a successful 'invitation-only' trial period,
ZOOOF.COM is now open to all. Anyone can join and in true
viral fashion, individuals have the opportunity to build
their family trees online adding other family members. Each
member creates a profile and can build upon the effort
created by the family's 'founder', extending the family to
other families and geographies.

    Jean-Paul Busker, CEO, ZOOOF.COM, commented, "Our
goal is to bring people closer together through family and
show how closely related they are to others, including
celebrities, heroes and royalty. The internet has enabled
the interactive family tree to become a reality."

    ZOOOF members can also discover, expand and maintain
family ties in a wide variety of ways: by tracing their
ancestry, building a contemporary interactive family tree,
inviting family members to a private environment, chatting,
mailing, sharing, and writing a biography, and immortalizing
their family history.

    Over the coming months, ZOOOF.COM plans to introduce
several new features and tools, including the option of
uploading genealogy files and continued improvement of its
current Web-based software. It already has an interactive
game, 'ZOOOF Explorers', in which players hand flags to
other members around the world to generate points,
spreading ZOOOF's message of "we're all one big
family". 

    Notes to editors

    Co-founder Jean-Paul Busker came up with the idea for
ZOOOF.COM in 2005 when he decided he wanted to start his
own modern art project with the goal of uniting the world
via 12 family "levels." At the time he was an art
gallery owner in Amsterdam allowing people to vote on the
Internet to decide what works they wanted to see in the
physical gallery. Fascinated about a story he'd heard about
Six Degrees he began to wonder about the 'real degrees' of
life and started ZOOOF as an art project with co-founder
Stefan Leenen, a computer science student.


    For more information, please contact:

     Jean-Paul Busker,
     CEO,
     ZOOOF.COM
     Tel:    [phone]
     Mobile: [phone]
     Email:  [e-mail]