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If 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.




> 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.


What about projects like chi.mp that give a personal page around a domain name in just as simple of an interface?


Trouble? I know that Wordpress.com and google make it extremely easy for a non-technical person to get going with a domain name.


How many of your non-technical friends and family use Wordpress ?




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