what about family news you and your family only.
I was tinking with my younger sister (our genius :D) about making any thing like twitter for our home just me and my family.
*field for every one of us to write what ever he wants just like twitter.
*we can also note the family mode.
*counter for an event for our family.
*leave a memo for any member of your family and he can left a reply or just delete the notification when he read it.
according to financial issues :D we don't know exactly how to implement it.
I am still thinking with the genius :d