
Early this year we
wrote about Pumkpinhead, the working name for new startup
About.me being created by repeat entrepreneurs/investors
Tony Conrad and
Tim Young.
We didn't know much about the startup except that it had top angel investors involved: Ron Conway, AOL Ventures, Scott Kurnit, Founders Collective, Radar Partners (Doug Mackenzie & Kevin Compton) and David Mahoney.
Freestyle Capital has also invested since then
The company is still in stealth, but they've given out a few beta accounts to friends and advisors, they sayPart of the product is a personal profile page that points people to your content around the Internet, allowing you to pull all this information together to build a single online identity.
So these beta users are creating very noticeable splash pagesExamples: Founder
Tony Conrad, AOL CEO
Tim Armstrong, Typekit founder
Jeffrey Veen and author
Ellen Hopkins.
You can
see my About.me page here
.