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about.me vs flavors.me

I like to think that having a presence online, big or small, it's beneficial for you as an individual or as a professional. These been said, when I bought a new hosting account, I was offered for free a domain. This is how I got alexchiri.com. My next problem was what to do with it. I already had a domain for this blog. And then I remembered about sites like about.me and flavors.me.

The idea with these sites is to easily create an online "business card",  a place where someone can go and access all the details about you, that represent the online you.

The only services that I know of that let you quickly setup such a page are about.me and flavors.me. I compared them and in the end I made a choice. Here is a comparison between the two of them and in the end I'll tell you what was my choice:

* Available with Premium account for 20$/year
** Premium account enhances this feature

For me was really easy from the start to choose flavors.me, because I wanted to map alexchiri.com to the page, which is not possible at all, for now, with about.me. But even if you don't want a custom domain, flavors.me is much more configurable and the fact they have those predefined layouts, allows you to achieve more without much of a hustle.

Here are some screenshots from both websites:

about.me

flavors.me

P.S. If you're wondering what are all the differences between normal and premium flavors.me accounts, you can read more on their website.