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Is this our Brightsolid??

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~`*`Jude`*`~

~`*`Jude`*`~ Report 6 Oct 2013 08:19

This was on my email from Jewish Discussion Group......

http://www.brightsolid.com/brightsolid-group/latest-news/recent-news/the-future-for-family-history-is-digital.html#sthash.imCNVVUI.dpuf.

Thought it could be of interest:)

jude

Researching:
Ukraine...

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 6 Oct 2013 09:03

That's our Brightsolid - only time will tell if any changes will lead to any improvements.

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 6 Oct 2013 09:34

There is a short article about these changes in FTM November issue Page 8:

DC Thomson plans to split Brightsolid into
1. BSOP (OnLine Publishing) - including Findmy past and GR. Annelies van den Belt has been appointed Chief Executive of BSOP.
2. BSOT (Brightsolid Online Technology). No news yet of who will be Chief Executive of BSOT.

Chris van der Kuyl, currently Group Chief Executive Officer of brightsolid, will become strategic advisor to the DC Thomson Board.

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 6 Oct 2013 10:09

This is fairly old news.

Annelies van den Belt has been hired off the back of a web portfolio based on social networking sites such as LiveJournal, notably in Russia.

From the point of view of D C Thompson she is charged with pulling the loss making FH interests into profit.

Given her background my guess is that all of the sites are going to see radical changes designed to substantially lift web traffic and hence advertising revenue.

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 6 Oct 2013 13:04

It looks like the two companies will be expected to work alongside. OP to market better, bring in punters and increase revenues and profit. OT to get this sorry mess of technology into the 21st century.

Perhaps one day we will all have emoticons, a decent tree layout and not quite so many error messages or long waits whilst GR loads up. And an end to this "what browser are you on, are you using IE9 or IE10?". For heavens sake, we are mostly aged* amateur family historians wanting a bit of fun and enlightenment.

Aged = over 55. It does not refer to the person now reading this.

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021

Susan10146857

Susan10146857 Report 6 Oct 2013 16:50

*it does not refer to the person reading this*.........LOL

JustJohn

JustJohn Report 6 Oct 2013 17:09

:-D :-D I was pleased with that, Susan. Unfortunately, it does apply to me who is now aged + 12 (and counting :-( :-()

Researching:
Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021