ZoomPast is a new website for exploring, building and sharing genealogies. The unique feature of ZoomPast is its use of a zooming user interface and innovative layout algorithms enable huge and complex genealogies to be explored with ease. The website was created jointly by James Rosindell and Kai Zhong, it was based on the www.OneZoom.org tree of life explorer. Thank you for your interest, we really hope you enjoy using ZoomPast. Please do send in your feedback to mail@zoompast.com. ZoomPast is a limited business registered in the UK under number 10261391. The ZoomPast software is based on research conducted by James Rosindell and Kai Zhong at Imperial College London.
Many users have asked about our long term sustainability and so we have added this explaniaton of our plans. ZoomPast started as a two person university project at Imperial College London. We have since spun out of the university as a limited business. At present all ZoomPast end user services are free. We are considering two funding models moving forwards - one would be to charge for certain services e.g. more storage space (the "Freemium" model) the other would be to license the technology to another company. We can say that our motivation as individauls in this is to realise a vision and create something new that people will enjoy using now and in the future - so we take the sustainability question seriously. To reassure you in the short term, your data is safe because you can download it as Gedcom and view again in another software package so you won't loose your work even if we aren't sustained long term. Also, a logical view on this would be that if lots of people like and use what we've created, then it will be sustainable, if there aren't lots of people liking and using it then no one will mind very much if we aren't sustained. Our future is in your hands! I hope you will have a try of what we've done and send some feedback.
James Rosindell and Kai Zhong, directors of ZoomPast Ltd.