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No-one own the public personal page space. Facebook, et al are about sharing with your friends and not the wider world. Linkedin comes the closest, but it's pu
by ig1 16y ago
No-one own the public personal page space. Facebook, et al are about sharing with your friends and not the wider world.
Linkedin comes the closest, but it's purely professional, pointing someone to your linkedin will only give them a limited view of yourself.
Being your own brand is an important socially as it is professionally. So it makes sense that people are going after this market.
- JSig 16y agoIf being your own brand is so important than why not just get your own domain name. Also, these profiles on about.me seem to just provide short bio with some links to twitter, flickr, facebook, linked, etc... You could do just do this directly on your tumblr, posterous, linkedin etc.. page. Someone posted a link today to the PG essay on stuff. The site about.me makes me realize that maybe sometimes people collect too much virtual stuff. About.me seems to be just more social clutter in the tangled spider-web of a user's online profile. I don't see how about.me adds more value.
- jessriedel 16y ago> If being your own brand is so important than why not just get your own domain name. 99.9% of people cannot or will not deal with that trouble.
- JSig 16y agoTrouble? I know that Wordpress.com and google make it extremely easy for a non-technical person to get going with a domain name.
- ig1 16y agoHow many of your non-technical friends and family use Wordpress ?
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- jawee 16y agoWhat about projects like chi.mp that give a personal page around a domain name in just as simple of an interface?
- _delirium 16y agoGoogle Profiles has a fairly large base of users, mostly due to people coming to it via things like Blogger, Picasa, and Buzz. about.me/whatever is a nicer URL scheme than google.com/profiles/whatever, though.