At the beginning of this year, I announced Family Connection, an open source, free, and easy-to-use family website built using Ruby on Rails.

Now it’s available as a hosted, very easy-to-set-up web app called Family Anywhere! It has the same Family News and Address Book features as the original, plus a new Photo Album that lets you browse all of the photos you’ve shared with your family. The hosted version is $9 per month, or less if you buy a year at a time.

For those who would like to just check out how it feels without going through the 2-minute sign-up process, log in to FamilyAnywhere.com/test and use “test” as the sign-in name and “password” as the password.

I’m proud to bring this program out in to the light of day, as it reflects some of my own desire to promote a better, more family-oriented world. I hope you enjoy it as much as our family does!