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About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All
- jaxn 16y agoI noticed that they basically invited people who asked them publicly on twitter (at least that is how I did it). I like my about.me. Just wish they offered a couple of more services (mostly tungle.me). http://about.me/jacksonmiller http://about.me/jacksonmiller
- jessriedel 16y agoSo I guess the point of this is to reside somewhere between facebook (rigid page layout) and a personal home page (no restrictions)? The benefits over a personal page I can see are that most of the nitty gritty has been done: built-in analytics, drag-and-drop webpage design, no hosting. Anything else?
- jaxn 16y agoThere may be some SEO benefit for people to have their name in the URL?
- acangiano 16y agoThey should offer a premium feature that enables you to map your own domain name. I would replace my homepage (http://antoniocangiano.com http://antoniocangiano.com) with something like this if the feature was available. (Of course, I could iframe it, redirect, etc... but it's not the same.)
- vyrotek 16y agoYeah I like this idea too. I've been managing my resume site with wordpress and I'm sick of it. I would gladly point my domain to a site that let me create a decent resume/experience page with the analytic features that about.me has. Of course this would require the site to create subdomains for users and not directories.
- BrandonM 16y agoWhy not create a DNS webhop?
- jessriedel 16y agoWhy is a redirect not the same? Is it just the split second of time it takes? (I obviously don't know anything about this stuff.)
- acangiano 16y agoOne reason is search engines. With a 301 redirect for example, you are telling them that your content has permanently moved from example.com to about.me/example. Your efforts to promote your page and acquire backlinks will only aid about.me not your own domain. If about.me were to shut down or you were to decide to build your own homepage, you'd be starting from zero SEO-wise. Furthermore, people may bookmark about.me/example (it's where they landed after all) or link directly to it bypassing your domain name. There are also other considerations, mostly related to the user expectations and experience.
- riobard 16y agoI thought one of their selling points is the ultra cool domain name? about.me/username??
- crux 16y agoFlavors.me offers pretty much the exact same feature set, with the ability to set your own domain. For instance (plug), zdsmith.com maps to flavors.me/zdsmith.
- ronnier 16y agoAbout.me is one of those ideas that gave me the "Why didn't I think of that" moment. It lead me to finding and buying http://ronnie.me http://ronnie.me The .me TLD seems to be growing quickly, grab your name if it's available.
- TimMontague 16y agoIs there any benefit to having multiple domain names pointing to the same site? For example, I already have myname.com, is there any advantage to also having myname.me?
- ronnier 16y agoNot really, other than preventing another "My Name" from ranking higher in search results for your name than you. It's a land grab. In my case, I was able to get a shorter URL ronnieroller.com vs ronnie.me. Makes it easier to say over the phone, twitter, etc. Make sure you set up the redirects properly. Having multiple URLs that point at the same content could penalize you on search engines for duplicate content (I believe).
- kingsidharth 16y agoNot if you make it a 301 redirect.
- JeffL 16y agoLooks like a cool site. Free link juice?
- gordonc 16y agoThis site is a poor copy of flavors.me. I once took the liberty of illustrating that idea: http://grdn.cc/post/1171539069/flavors-me-vs-about-me-in-todays-era-of-digital http://grdn.cc/post/1171539069/flavors-me-vs-about-me-in-tod...
- duck 16y agoAfter searching for some of the folks they have spotlighted on Google and not seeing their page listed makes me wonder what is the point?
- mrlase 16y agoFirst impressions on the overall speed of the site are not that great. It's running very slow, certain features aren't working, etc. For instance -> Uploading a background just isn't working for me.
- clojurerocks 16y agoSeems too overly simplistic. All the profiles also seem colorful but generic and it seems theres not alot you can do with them.
- clojurerocks 16y agoI also dont understand the point of the analytics since theres nothing really to see on your page. Maybe the service will improve overtime.
- chairface 16y agoyeah, right. Google says about 14,000. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:about.me http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...