Today's news says that ITV has acquired Friends Reunited (& per an interview with an ITV executive, are gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of acquiring this large data base for marketing ITV goods & services). As it was my understanding that Friends Reunited (& their second company Genes Reunited) had recently acquired the 1901 census from the original company who transcribed it, does this then mean that ITV now has Friends Reunited, Genes Reunited & the 1901 census online? Will the users of any or some of these web sites now become targets for ITV marketing? Does anyone have further info on this? Mary
One can only hope that ITV will sort out the now impossible updating facility on the web site. I fear that everything that was once small enough to be valuable is now being taken over by the big conglomerates. Quantity will rapidly supplant quality, and those who really value genealogy will simply stop using it as a resource. I am sure that somewhere in the wings another web site with similar offerings is waiting to come on stage. ---- Peter Amsden, Argyll, Scotland Researching Amsden World Wide Outline History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~amsden Books I have written: http://www.btinternet.com/~amsden AllExperts: http://www.allexperts.com/displayExpert.asp?Expert=38044 Never dump originals - they may be all that is left after the computer age. > From: MWTRE@aol.com > Reply-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:17:34 EST > To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SoG] merger query > Resent-From: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 05:17:41 -0700 > > Today's news says that ITV has acquired Friends Reunited (& per an interview > with an ITV executive, are gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of > acquiring this large data base for marketing ITV goods & services). As it > was my understanding that Friends Reunited (& their second company Genes > Reunited) had recently acquired the 1901 census from the original company who > transcribed it, does this then mean that ITV now has Friends Reunited, Genes > Reunited & the 1901 census online? Will the users of any or some of these > web > sites now become targets for ITV marketing? Does anyone have further info on > this? > Mary >