With the growing number of social networks out there, users have plenty of ways to share the minutiae of their daily lives. But few are positioned to help them collect and share rich family memories. That could change with the launch of Storytree, which aims to provide a platform for users to share stories with their family and friends. With Storytree, users can create private pages, then tell their own stories through pictures, audio and video, which they can then share with friends or family. Or they can ask other members to contribute their own stories by emailing them.

Storytree Wants Families To Spin, Share, And Save Good Yarns. After Google+, does the world need another online community? Storytree thinks it does and offers a site to help family members tell their favorite tales. "With Facebook and Google Circles, you get a lot of noise going on," a cofounder tells us. "We're focused on the meaningful content."

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Storytree is a slick web service for creating online family memories with photos and videos in the form of a family tree. The company, founded by two Stanford University Institute of Design graduates, uses an email tool to develop growth.

Storytree, a website for documenting family history, was quite captivating because it combined human-centered design with storytelling, two things that really can bring greater happiness to the world.

Besides cooking and coffee, other demos the attendees seemed to be talking about were Storytree, which offers an app for sharing multimedia family stories...