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by eoghan 4886 days ago
> In the end, what About.me brings to the table is pretty boring.

I don't agree. If you start to think about what could disrupt LinkedIn, you realize that there's a good chance it could look like About.me. I bet in 12 months, About.me will find some direct competitors. This is a big opportunity IMO.
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minimax 4886 days ago
"So and so has endorsed you for XML and Microsoft Office!"

Every time I get one of these emails I come a little bit closer to closing my LinkedIn account. A LinkedIn replacement in the form of about.me sounds pretty appealing right now.

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busted 4885 days ago
There's something similar (with less dumb endorsements?) in zerply.com.
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cheapsteak 4885 days ago
Apparently if you try to tag a skill with "C#" it shows you an error that you can't even identify as an error

http://i.imgur.com/M1UwlnH.png

upon DOM inspection it says "A Tag can consist of letters A-Z, plus, space, underscores, hash or dashes."

That aside it's a very slick website

edit: apparently you also can't edit an experience name. It looks like it changes when you save but when you refresh it it goes back to what it was before.

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