John Connell: The Blog

Friends Reunited, whose flame once burned brighter than Facebook’s, in the UK at least, is relaunch­ing tomor­row (Tues­day 27 March). Pur­chased from ITV for £25m in 2009 by Bright­Solid, the com­pany led by one of Scotland’s most forward-thinking entre­pre­neurs, Chris van der Kuyl, the site will re-emerge tomor­row as a social net­work built around the con­cept of a dig­i­tal scrapbook.

As TechCrunch describes it:

The idea, says the com­pany, will be to col­lect images to share with friends and fam­ily around “remem­ber when” moments: giv­ing some wider con­text to pic­tures cre­ated by users themselves.

Peo­ple will be able to post their own images along­side copy­righted con­tent that will be pro­vided through a num­ber of very inter­est­ing con­tent deals done by Bright­Solid, includ­ing images from the Press Asso­ci­a­tion and the Fran­cis Frith Pho­to­graphic Archive, with more deals to come. Friends Reunited could there­fore offer an inter­est­ing coun­ter­point to the recent swell in num­bers on Pin­ter­est, and the accom­pa­ny­ing issues over copy­right on that site.

So, watch out for the new site pop­ping up tomor­row!

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