about.me is a personal web hosting service co-founded by Ryan Freitas, Tony Conrad and Tim Young in October 2009. The site offers registered users a simple platform from which to link multiple online identities, relevant external sites, and popular social networking websites such as Twitter

Twitter

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, Facebook

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, LinkedIn

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, Flickr

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, YouTube

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, Tumblr

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. It is characterized by its one-page user profiles, each with a large, often-artistic background image and abbreviated biography.

On December 20, 2010, just four days after its public launch, about.me was acquired by AOL. In an interview, co-founder Tony Conrad said that about.me sold for $1.3 million.

Advisors

The site's advisors include Veronica Belmont

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, Ryan Block

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, Lindsay Campbell

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, Timothy Ferriss

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, Om Malik

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, Chris Sacca

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, Matt Mullenweg

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, Julia Allison

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, Tom Conrad.