diff --git a/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb b/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb
index 2e092151..70d62600 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/layouts/_lightboxes.html.erb
@@ -7,67 +7,6 @@
     <a id="lightbox_close" href="#"></a>
     <div id="lightbox_content">
 
-      <div class="lightboxContent" id="about">
-        <h3>About Metamaps.cc</h3>
-            <div id="aboutParms">
-            <div id="leftAboutParms">
-                <p>STATUS: </p>
-                <p>VERSION:</p>
-                <p>BUILD:</p>
-                <p>LAST UPDATE:</p>
-            </div>
-
-            <div id="rightAboutParms">
-                <p>PRIVATE BETA</p>
-                <p><%= METAMAPS_VERSION %></p>
-                <p><%= METAMAPS_BUILD %></p>
-                <p><%= METAMAPS_LAST_UPDATED %></p>
-            </div>
-            <div class="clearfloat">
-            </div>
-            </div>
-
-        <p>Metamaps.cc is a free and open source web platform that supports real-time sense-making and distributed collaboration between individuals, communities and organizations.</p>
-
-<p>Using an intuitive graph-based interface, Metamaps.cc helps map out networks of people, ideas, resources, stories, experiences, conversations and much more. The platform is evolving for a range of applications amidst a growing network of designers, developers, facilitators, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and artists.</p>
-
-<p>Metamaps.cc is created and maintained by a distributed community of contributors passionate about the evolution of collaboration, alternative forms of value creation and increase of collective intelligence through the lens of the open culture and the peer-to-peer revolution.</p>
-
-        <ul class="lightbox_links">
-          <li>
-            <a id="lightbox_metamapps" href="https://twitter.com/metamapps" target="_blank">
-              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
-              @metamapps
-            </a>
-          </li>
-          <li>
-            <a id="lightbox_community" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115060009262157699234" target="_blank">
-              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
-              community
-            </a>
-          </li>
-          <li>
-            <a id="lightbox_blog" href="http://blog.metamaps.cc" target="_blank">
-              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
-              blog
-            </a>
-          </li>
-          <li>
-            <a id="lightbox_source" href="https://github.com/metamaps/metamaps" target="_blank">
-              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
-              source code
-            </a>
-          </li>
-          <li>
-            <a id="lightbox_term" href="https://metamaps.cc/maps/331" target="_blank">
-              <div class="lightboxAboutIcon"></div>
-              terms
-            </a>
-          </li>
-        </ul>
-        <div class="clearfloat"></div>
-      </div>
-
       <div class="lightboxContent" id="noIE">
         <h3>OOPS! <br> YOUR BROWSER IS NOT SUPPORTED.</h3>
         <p id="noIEsubheading">To view this experience, please upgrade to the latest one of these browsers:</p>