Birth Announcement!

March 27th, 2006

We’re pleased to announce the beta launch of our brainchild, AlwaysKnownAs.com, which we believe provides the best way to manage and share your contact information. Before we go any further, we need to ask forgiveness from our spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends, close friends, pets and other family members who’ve patiently supported us during the 12-month gestation. You’re all saints.

Here are a few things to remember about this beta-launch of AKA:

• We’ve really strived to make this a true Web 2.0 experience (apologies for the overuse of that term) by allowing users to control their own information, by constantly updating our service based on your feedback, and by making the AKA system open for integration with other online services.

• It’s a beta-launch dude! Please give us your feedback. Let us know if you find a bug. Suggest new features! Be gentle, yet firm.

• This is important. We’ve set out to be “address book agnostic”. Anyone can use the online features of AKA. In addition, our initial launch supports Outlook and Blackberry address books. Palm is coming soon. And we haven’t forgotten our beloved Mac users…support for Mac OS address book is right around the corner.

Lastly, just a quick note about our intentions. We’re a bunch of internet enthusiasts, maybe a lot like you. We’re protective about our own information, so we tried to make a service that will please ourselves. We promise to be honest and transparent with you. That’s what we would want and what you deserve. Let’s keep an open dialog going and hopefully AKA will just get better and better.

Posted by: Terry Anderson

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