Virb
26 March 2007 :: posted by TravisOne thing we don’t do is review websites. That would be opening the floodgates. Butbutbut Virb is important enough to note.
In short, Virb has taken everything I hate about MySpace and turned it into something I can easily love. They’ve made it good… enjoyable even; not to mention easy navigation and clean layouts. Even though Virb puts all the tools in your hand for complete customization, it would take a lot of work to create anything as tacky as the cleanest MySpace profile. Granted, I have yet to create a personal Virb account — and the BIGSTEREO Virb account sits empty, but there’s a lot of potential here.
Most important though is their Music profiles. Where MySpace is clumsy and halfass, Virb has created streaming music playlists that actually, um, work — and photos that are saved at a decent enough resolution. Their flash video player is easily embeddable and pleasant enough… and unlike MySpace, Virb seems to encourage embedding YouTube videos instead of discouraging. MySpace could learn a lot from Virb.
Check out LCD Soundsystem, Portugal. The Man and hellogoodbye’s profiles for examples.
Virb is still new. There’s not enough content yet, and only a few artists have made the switch. Hopefully soon enough we’ll see more and more… I know I am hoping that Virb will knock MySpace off its thrown throne.
yay! it’s not blocked from work… yet
March 26th, 2007 at 3.33 pm
i have a virb account too, but haven’t even used it yet. I’ll try it on for size one of these days.
March 27th, 2007 at 9.26 pm
Thanks for turning me on to this. I agree, it’s a much better design than Myspace.
March 28th, 2007 at 9.59 pm
thrown/throne. :P i think virb has great potential too. myspazz feels like a wannabe hipster version of a role playing game like 2nd life where you can look however you want with some photochop skills, and pretend to be who you want since its an intangible ‘hangout’, and i have a coworker who is obssessed with that shit that i cant stand, so it makes me hate ms even more. virb seems alot more fresh and clean.
March 29th, 2007 at 11.42 am
heck yeas virb is freekin better then flipen my space. ask to be my friend on virb Im Moonlight360
April 4th, 2007 at 3.00 pm