New Music Search Tools
If you haven't noticed, we have launched a set of powerful tools to help you find exactly the MUSIC that your heart desires.
The BROWSE tool allows you to filter and locate artists as specific as you want. THE CHARTS do exactly what music charts are meant to do; while TOURS & SHOWS helps you to locate live music in your area via your favorite genres. These new tools will rock the face off any musicologist out there! Go try 'em out and let us know what you think.
In other news, we have some big changes in the works for the RECENT ACTIVITY area of Your Home. I'll do my best to get you a sneak peek before the week is over. Trust me. You're gonna wanna see this. It's huge! :)
Later this week in the VIRB Blog, I'll also talk about (and screencast) the upcoming address book import utility. What ever could it all mean?!?
posted by
15 MAY 2007
12 Comments
I LOLed at the part about the address book. Why say "LOLed" actually? Technically, that'd be "I Lauged Out Louded" and that's just stupid. So, I LOL at the part about the address book… no.. that sounds like an on-going activity, and, while it was funny, I don't know that I will be laughing at it indefinitely.
Oh, right, new features! By default, does the TOURS & SHOWS page show you the ones closest to where you're located? Because that's really great. I know it's a simple step to plug in your zip code and hit submit, but filtering the results by default really adds to the user experience, so big kudos there. And while it can be really hard to classify an artist or group into genres, you give a good amount of options so you can at least land in the general ballpark.
Great stuff!
posted by Mike on May 15, 2007 at 9:09pm
Dag yo. I'm stoked to see the new features! The address book part sounds terrific, too.
Stoked.
posted by Scotti on May 15, 2007 at 9:16pm
Damn. Do you guys ever sleep?
posted by Brad on May 15, 2007 at 10:49pm
Love all the new features guys – love em. Still waiting for the big one though – picture tagging.
posted by Kurt Cruse on May 16, 2007 at 8:31am
@Kurt Cruse
You can already tag your photos: when you upload/edit a photo, there's the option to "Tag this photo." Unless you're talking about something else… ?
posted by Mike on May 16, 2007 at 9:56am
Kurt: Picture tagging? One of us must be confused. Tagging was in place long before private beta.
posted by Brad on May 16, 2007 at 11:48am
Kurt is talking about tagging areas of a picture. You can tag an area in the picture with a person on Virb, or just tag it as "Chair", for example.
posted by Chrys on May 16, 2007 at 0:29am
Something like Flickr has? I think they call them Notes. Facebook does that, too, but you can link to people's profiles.
Flickr example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/494041404/ (Photo credit Lara Jade)
posted by Mike on May 16, 2007 at 0:44am
Aaaaah! Now I understand. :)
posted by Brad on May 16, 2007 at 0:53am
Check out the times for the comments posted after 12:00 PM noon:
"posted by Mike on May 16, 2007 at 0:44am" even though that was posted some time this afternoon :P
posted by Mike on May 16, 2007 at 6:01pm
Weird, now my last one showed up correctly.
posted by Mike on May 16, 2007 at 6:02pm
That's odd Mike. I see what you are saying. We'll take a look at it!! Thanks.
B
posted by Brad on May 16, 2007 at 6:14pm