Update-ification

Comment Subscriptions
We've added comment subscriptions, bringing our email notification technology all the way up to 2004. Now when someone posts a comment or replies in a thread where you have commented, you will be notified (by email). Finally, without logging into …

10 Photo Sweepstakes Finalists

Over the course of the past 2 weeks, thousands of photos were nominated in our first ever Photo Sweepstakes. Each night, we'd scour through that giant pool of awesome and make a short list of candidates, ultimately settling on one photo each day that was chosen as a …

All new: Virb Short URLs!

Let's say you've got a favorite photo on virb...

Candace by Bummer City Photography

...and you'd like to share that photo with your followers on twitter. Unfortunately, that photo's url is 34 characters long and your accompanying message is 110, putting you …

Toggle status updates in Overview

Already in the works as part of our next release, is an exciting overhaul for the Activity section of your Hub.

Until that time, we know many of you would love to silence the constant noise of status updates and Twitter feeds that stream through your Overview tab. …

DDoS inadvertently affecting Feeds

Several of our official Feeds (e.g. Twitter & LiveJournal) are experiencing ongoing denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) today. If your Feeds are not updating, these attacks are likely to blame.

Once these sites have fully restored service, your Virb Feeds should return …

Getting Started with Circles

One of Virb's great new features is Circles, a way for you to organize the people/places/things/etc you follow on virb into... well... circles. To give you an idea of how powerful these can be, I'll share my setup with you:

Circle #1 - Photographers / Artists
This …

Using Virb to Find Cool Stuff

There is a lot of great stuff on this little website we call home. It's packed with great musicians, photographers, designers and all sorts of clever, talented, beautiful people. A lot of users come to our site, setup their account and add their friends per norm of …

Countdown to 2.1

I ran out of time last week, so this update is a few days past due. Simmy and I traveled to Portland, Oregon to present the closing keynote for the WebVisions conference. It was a refreshing experience to openly discuss the ups and downs of building a company and a …

The 2.1 Update, Update

Team Virb has been fast at work on some big upgrades. The forthcoming 2.1 update focuses on features that enhance the sharing of content on Virb, within Virb and in Groups (which are getting a massive revamp too). The long awaited release of personal domains will be …

2 New Personal Skins: Soda Jerk and Chunk

We are super pumped to release 2 new personal skins today, which can be found in the You › Customize area of your Hub if you have a Personal account. A big reason we're excited is that they were designed by someone other than me (Stephen Hallgren and Josh Lane, …

Sneak a peek: Groups

It took us about 15 seconds after we launched the new Virb to realize how short we had fallen on the new groups strategy. We took away a vital aspect of what had made the V1 groups popular: stuff. Lots of it. Without clicking.

Thinly veiled as "comments", those …

From this point forward...

Howdy gang.

Exactly 6 weeks ago we flipped the switch and pushed Virb 2 out the starting gates. Since then, we've been rather busy. Unfortunately, just not busy on the things we had planned.

We the people have been in clean-up mode. From (big) unexpected issues …