TechCrunch has the story of a new startup, Geni, which uses Flash to manage your family tree. You start by adding yourself, then move to add your other family members: mom, dad, brothers, sisters, husband / wife etc... As you go, you have the option of inviting them to fill in more of their family tree, expanding your own family tree without making you do all the work. I've started mine, we'll see if my mom and dad continue filling in the rest of it.

I've posted other stories on using Flash for visualization of information, and this is no different. In this case, its displaying relations between human beings. Yes, we all know how great Flash is for online audio (blog post coming about that soon) and online video (blog post coming about that soon too), but its quickly geting a reputation as a great tool for visualization of data. (Digg Labs has two great examples showcasing the use of Flash to display data from Digg: Stack and Swarm.)

I'm interested in knowing how they're going to relate all these people to one another... Maybe email addresses, I guess, but I know a lot of people who have multiple email addresses. In any event, a cool site to check out and play around with for a few minutes.