Choose our new compliments!

What compliments would you like to give? What compliments would you like to receive? We’re looking to add more compliment options and we wanted to ask you what you’d like them to say! Some ideas we have are: You’re cool Creative! … Continue reading

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Get local – add a Location to your about.me page

Where you are is part of who you are. This is abundantly clear during events like the World Series (Orange October)! Now, your about.me page can reflect where you are. Adding a location to your page gives context to visitors. … Continue reading

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Get found: add tags

Tags are a great shorthand way to tell the world what you’re about on about.me. They increase your discoverability around specific topics and give a viewer a quick glimpse into your passions and projects. We recently analyzed tags on the … Continue reading

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New Backgrounds!

Once again, we have to thank the amazing about.me community and the talented photographers on our platform, for our most recent collection of backgrounds just today available in the Gallery. Thanks to the following for their contributions: Geoffrey Orthwein Yadunandan … Continue reading

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Complimentary, my dear

While we’ve long offered Favorites as a feature, we wanted to provide additional super simple ways to interact with about.me pages. We’ve seen your beautiful pages and have always wanted to tell you how great they are.  Now we can do that. … Continue reading

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Justified updates

We’re excited to offer a few updates to your Background positions. In addition to Scale, Center and Tile, you can now set your Background to Left or Right align. Head to your Edit Your Page view to try out the … Continue reading

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Smarterer and Forkly on about.me

One goal of our SDK is to scale services added to the platform. Along with Favorites, we’ve had two services added since the SDK has become available. Smarterer provides a free way to let anyone, anywhere, prove any skill. Answer … Continue reading

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New service: Favorites

We’re excited to see requests coming in the developer portal to use the API and SDK.  The about.me team has used both the SDK and API on the product. The latest service we’re offering uses both: Favorites! We’ve received lots of … Continue reading

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New backgrounds from the about.me community

In the past, we’ve featured artists, raised awareness and supported causes with our Background Gallery. But some of the most striking backgrounds we’ve seen have been photographs. So, a few weeks ago we reached out to the photographer community on … Continue reading

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Getting started with about.me and Pinterest

We’re big fans of Pinterest here at about.me (some of us more than others).  And we’re excited to announce that the Pin it button is now available on your about.me page. With the addition of the Pin it button it’s … Continue reading

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