Virb.com Goes Public

March 7, 2007 · 15 comments

Remember that hip new social network I gave out invites for a few weeks ago? Well, it launched and went public today. Virb is geared more towards the arts-oriented crowd (music, etc), or so it seems. Similar to MySpace, bands seem to be taking over Virb, as exemplified by this Fall Out Boy page. At any rate, it’s nice to see MySpace will have some (better looking) competition. Oh and music on profile pages doesn’t and can’t autoplay – take that MySpace!

You can find my Virb profile at /pauls.

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gathering | inlight.com - » Virb Social Network Goes Live (and Kills Myspace): March 7, 2007 at 11:03 pm

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1 Josh P March 7, 2007 at 2:11 pm: As for the bands taking over…Virb actually just imported their database of bands from Purevolume…so any band that is one Purevolume will be on Virb.

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2 Paul Stamatiou March 7, 2007 at 2:13 pm: Ah, I figured they had to get the band to make a page as well. So you’re saying that the bands don’t actually check/use/know about their page?

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3 Josh P March 7, 2007 at 2:37 pm: That’s exactly what I’m saying. Supposedly if they update any info on their PV page it gets updated on their Virb page as well.

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4 Matt March 7, 2007 at 2:59 pm: Not all the bands from PV were imported. I doubt there will be any interaction / updating between Virb and Purevolume as the two sites are significantly different.

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5 Don Wilson March 7, 2007 at 3:34 pm: Music is fairly high quality, extremely nicely designed.

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6 shoo March 7, 2007 at 3:48 pm: It’s a great looking site. Hopefully this one takes off. Favorite feature was that I could import my Flickr photos.

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7 Rich March 7, 2007 at 4:46 pm: It even has a “Remove Customisation” button. Beautiful! That’s been on the Myspace most wanted forever.

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8 Ralph Dagza March 7, 2007 at 4:52 pm: I cant wait to use the “Import Feed” feature

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9 Andrew Swihart March 7, 2007 at 5:29 pm: This looks great for me, thanks for the info.

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10 Shawn Blanc March 8, 2007 at 1:12 am: Virb is excellent. I hope MySpace falls off the internet.

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11 Andrew Swihart March 8, 2007 at 11:11 pm: Virb excels at doing exactly the same thing that I am trying to do with my own site, but it does it all effortlessly and better than I have been able to. Although I give myself a break because I’m a complete beginner.

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12 Jessay March 9, 2007 at 9:14 pm: Band profiles that were imported were also locked until the bands decide to make profiles. All they have up until then is the band’s name and photo. I’m thinking it’s a good idea to avoid fake band profiles and things like that.

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13 octav March 15, 2007 at 10:36 pm: is it really public, there is a signups left ticker?

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14 Jeremy Ricketts January 3, 2008 at 3:07 pm: I haven’t heard a word about Virb (either on the web, or via word of mouth) for quite some time. Dead? Dying?

Maybe the big “2.0″ release didn’t release in time. Feels like it’s loosing/lost the initial spike of momentum/popularity it had. Maybe I’m wrong.

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