Tony Conrad interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
summary
Co-founder commentary lays out concrete results: a billboard campaign nets over 50,000 signups and just under half a million votes, about.me positions itself as a single, dynamic identity page that aggregates social feeds and resists Google/Facebook control, and the product folds into AOL as a potential login service. Specific platform claims: WordPress powers 15% of all sites and 22% of new sites last year. Investment thesis favors open-source hardware like MakerBot where community-shared designs act as the growth engine.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00About.me and new billboard
- 0:22Billboard campaign results
- 0:58Purpose of about.me
- 1:50Federating online identity
- 3:05AOL acquisition and login
- 3:41WordPress and tech longevity
- 4:36Predicting user needs
- 5:23Open source hardware
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