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Virb.com Launches = MySpace + Facebook

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My friends at Virb.com quietly launched their site in the past few days. I have been beta testing for awhile and love what they have done. These guys are one of the few people who have a chance of making something big. They turned PureVolume.com into an indie rock monster website.

virb launches

The site has some pretty cool things:

- Hate when music plays when you load a MySpace page? With virb you can revert the person’s profile to a default if you want
- Customize your page with easy templates and create plug-ins that other people can use.
- Find the friends you want with simple search and browse functionalities.

Not many people know but these guys created Pure Volume and a Facebookish site 1 year before Facebook or MySpace launched. The real question now is is this too little too late? Can they take their 1 million plus members from Pure Volume site and change the world with Virb?

Bottom line: The site has taken the best of things from Facebook and MySpace and put them together. I definitely recommend you check out Virb.

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9 Responses to “Virb.com Launches = MySpace + Facebook”

  • Brian Breslin
    March 7th, 2007
    11:52 am

    where’s your profile man? add me as a friend (this applies to all of you readers too, i figure if you are friends with noah, I’ll probably like having you as an e-friend too): http://www.virb.com/brianbreslin

  • Noah Kagan
    March 7th, 2007
    11:56 am

    http://www.virb.com/okdork

  • Nii A.
    March 7th, 2007
    12:37 pm

    As cool as this is, it’s definitely too little too late. Network effects have inertia and switching costs are high.

    Imeem on the other hand…

  • Will Kern
    March 7th, 2007
    1:39 pm

    Noah,
    We have been looking at this over the last few days and we are salivating. They seemed to have gotten everything right about social networking and web 2.0. How well do you know these guys?

    Will

  • Taylor
    March 7th, 2007
    4:23 pm

    What’s the facebook-ish site they launched 1 year before facebook/myspace?

  • Noah Kagan
    March 7th, 2007
    4:34 pm

    I think the site was called maxcollege.com or something, does not seem to be live lately.

    I know those guys pretty well. I started talking to them when I was at Facebook. I love the type of music on purevolume.com, listening to http://www.purevolume.com/hellogoodbye now. I think they do a great job and am keeping my fingers-crossed about Virb

  • Taylor
    March 7th, 2007
    4:38 pm

    Ah thanks. Yeah, Brett’s pretty cool. They throw rad parties.

    I could’ve sworn I didn’t check that ‘notify me of followup comments’ box but I still got notified :P

  • SusanJones (SixGunSusie)
    March 8th, 2007
    1:46 pm

    I’m there!
    just look for SusanJones!
    the ONLY ONE!
    woot!

  • somac
    May 8th, 2007
    5:26 pm

    Virb looks cool, but i think it may be a little to l8 with the dominance of myspace and facebook. But ya neva know with the right promotion. ;)

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