about.me

What is About.me?

  • About.me is a personal hosting service, which is characterized by its one-page user profile that usually has an artistic or personal background
  • About.me uses a simple platform that can connect all of your multiple online identities together. ie) Instagram, Facebook,Twitter etc

Who Created About.me

  • About.me was co-founded by Tony Conrad, Ryan Freitas, and Tim Young
  • Tim Young is no longer with about.me but is currently with VMware

History of About.me

  • About.me was created October 2009
  • On December 20th, 2010 it was sold to AOL for $1.3 million
  • On February 5th,2013 Tony Conrad bought it back for a fraction of the price from AOL. The reason? Tony felt that there were no benefits of being owned by AOL

Features:

  • Free professional/individual layout
  • 34 fonts to choose from
  • Option of colour customizing your page, biography box, biography and links
  • Customization of the opacity of your colours.
  • The uses of tags in your interests to help people with the same interests find your profile
  • Background photos can be uploaded from your hard drive, Instagram, and Facebook
  • Can link your accounts together
  • The dashboard shows you who has viewed and has favored your page, plus what you have done to your page
  • The dashboard also has page statistics that shows average time spent on your page, new visitors, clicks on your apps and how many total views your page has received. You can change the statistics from year to month to week
  • An easily accessible favorites list
  • Businesses or you can create business cards

What we think:
Pros:

  • A lot of diversity
  • Simple to use
  • Link apps (facebook, twitter, ect.)
  • See who has viewed you profile
  • Can find people with similar interests

Cons:

  • Got bored quickly, not much to do
  • Vague discription on how to add a resume
  • No chat engine
  • Will change things on its own

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