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About.me - reserve your name now

by alfredp on 9/11/10, 4:29 AM with 6 comments

• by chmike on 9/11/10, 6:37 AM

  This is a good domain name, better than facebook. But the real goal of the service is not clear.

  Why metering activity on about.me ? Is this something people want ? How many ? How much do they want it ? What for ?

  What is the added value of your site compared to all other similar services we have today on the web ? It should be (made) obvious, otherwise people won't spend the time to check.

• by ddoonie on 9/11/10, 6:46 AM

  I think it is quite interesting. You have a dashboard to monitor/control your online presence. I've done this for a while with my own website, but they are bringing it to the general public.

  I'd be curious to know what their business model would be though. I can see that they will be aggregating more user data as they can associate all your online profiles with your one persona now.

• by mikemol on 9/11/10, 6:15 AM

  Meh. I got my vanity domain back with FreeYourID. first.last.name. :)

• by zacharyz on 9/12/10, 12:24 AM

  How is this different from flavors.me?

• by johnconroy on 9/11/10, 8:28 AM

  I can see this working. LinkedIn isn't for everyone. Signed up.