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How About A Fast Exit: About.me Gets Acquired By Aol
- atomical 16y agoPrice?
- FrankGruber5 16y agoThey did not disclose a price but I'm speculating in the ten of millions.
- ABrandt 16y agoAre you speculating this figure because thats what the TechCrunch article that broke the story said, or do you have alternative sources of information? No disrespect, just wondering.
- citricsquid 16y agoFrom his personal bio: "Frank was formerly a product strategist and evangelist for the Aol social networking group, which included such products as AIM" and I'm assuming FrankGruber5 here == @Frankgruber on Twitter who lists "Frankgruber5" as a link to about him. I'm going to assume insider knowledge :p
- mgarfias 16y agoCongrats to my friends Tony and Alex there
- dotBen 16y agoOk, I'm going to say it... ...I don't get it. The product is, IMHO, pretty immature - no surprise seeing as it only just went live a few days ago. Unlike RackSpace buying CloudKick a few days ago, where you could argue it would be hard + long + risky to build in-house, with About.me I really can't see what couldn't have been built by Aol in a short order of time. Sure they had 400k+ users in the beta (wtf?) and so of course AOL gets to buy users. But 'tens of millions' seems a lot for 400k users.
- iterationx 16y ago400K users at the moment, but what's their rate of growth? Maybe it'll be 1m in a few months. Facebook is how you interact with friends, Twitter is SMS, and About.me is how you present yourself to the Internet public at large.