Comments on: MediaTemple Reboots Impressive Virb Social Network, Launches A Venture Fund

By: Zach Wingo

Zach Wingo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:58:58 +0000

This has nothing to do with the (gs) and is irrelevant.

By: The Not As Big But Emerging Social Networks

The Not As Big But Emerging Social Networks — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:04:57 +0000

[...] a tadpole compared to the bigboy numbers but nevertheless, it’s a significant community. TechCrunch has a well written synopsis about many of the changes but most of the improved and relaunched features go about improving the [...]

By: Zach Wingo

Zach Wingo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:07:27 +0000

A great book is called, “Customer satisfaction is worthless, customer loyalty is priceless”. I am a loyal customer of (mt) because they are professional, provide excellent 24/7/365 support, and their Hosting with a few exceptions is rock solid.

Their (dv)’s are rock solid. Their previous traditional shared hosting was and still is rock solid (some customers apparently still use it and haven’t migrated to the grid service platform). The (gs) is the only system of their that has really had any problems and it hasn’t even been widespread across the entire grid service.

Sometimes it’s just a particular storage segment that only affects a few customers, other times it’s a MySQL server which again only affects the few customers on that machine. I personally have never had any significant unscheduled downtime so why wouldn’t I be a fan?

By: Eau Claire Wisconsin Business & Technology News

Eau Claire Wisconsin Business & Technology News — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:42:22 +0000

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By: Rachel Burkot

Rachel Burkot — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:50:35 +0000

You say that Virb tries to fill in the gaps that other social networking sites are lacking. This is a good strategy and this site’s only shot if they actually want to grab an online presence, but is it realistic? Won’t the bigger sites like Facebook simply fill in these gaps more quickly and extensively, as they have more powerful resources that the smaller sites don’t have? Is the internet an example of “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer,” as seen most explicitly in social networking sites?

By: lemonobrien@yahoo.com

lemonobrien@yahoo.com — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:57:56 +0000

i don’t get it. nothing there expect pretty buttons.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:45:59 +0000

(mt) is awesome! Virb is dope. (mt) is so far beyond most companies, keep it up

By: Jorge Sanchez

Jorge Sanchez — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:29:07 +0000

Verb is def going to take off. Big ups to you Dave.

By: B. Ackles

B. Ackles — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:21 +0000

Tumblr’s their next target!

By: Victor Caballero

Victor Caballero — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:11:51 +0000

I have been trying to figure this out. The “glowing” endorsements by people led me to try out mt. It turns out they have trouble like the other hosting companies and in some cases more, I have experiences several site and email outages with no real explanation, other than it is a “new” platform.
Oh well. Love the mt support for the tech community and I am still a customer, for now.

By: MediaTempleがソーシャルネットワークのVirbを魅力的に改訂、ベンチャーファンド設立も

MediaTempleがソーシャルネットワークのVirbを魅力的に改訂、ベンチャーファンド設立も — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:51:12 +0000

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By: Sean Price

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:23:20 +0000

great to see MT doing this sort of thing. integration with the account center could be interesting…

By: Phan Dang Truong

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:17:20 +0000

(mt) is really a perfect service provider, they always do care its customers, even a individual person.

By: Dennis Eusebio

Dennis Eusebio — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:05:11 +0000

Looks amazing.

By: Jeff Durand

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:37:24 +0000

looking good.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:14:15 +0000

It’s amazing how right you are. I can’t understand that, in the hosting industry MT is not well respected at all for their hosting issues, but their users are crazy about them! How do they do it? Beautiful web design? Huge incentives for referrals? Fun parties they throw?

By: Caleb White

Caleb White — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:01:18 +0000

Congrats, everything looks amazing.. good to see Mt in the news .

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:49:58 +0000

Personally, I wish MediaTemple would fix their Grid-Service uptime issues before they spend money on crap like this.

By: Sebastian Dadał

Sebastian Dadał — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:49:31 +0000

I hope Virb eventually becomes THE social network for all the creative folks. It certainly deserves it.

By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:38:38 +0000

Very interesting… looks real fun!

By: ImageCo

ImageCo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:34:43 +0000

True dat! MT isn’t a great host but they are brilliant when it comes to turning their users into raving fan boys.

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:30:16 +0000

I, on the other hand, have never experienced any significant and unscheduled downtime (I can back up my statement with an external site uptime checker). Just letting you know.

And this Virb social network looks impressive. I’ll take a further look later today.

By: free_for_some

free_for_some — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:29:29 +0000

Check out what the “Terms” of contacting the new venture company behind the “new” Virb – (mt) ventures – has to say about contacting them:

“Your submissions of ideas will automatically become the property of (mt) Media Temple, without any compensation or other rights to you; (mt) Media Temple may use, modify or reproduce the ideas for any purpose and in any way and for an unlimited period of time, including giving your ideas to others;”

Looks like fun!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:55:31 +0000

The fact that MediaTemple owns Virb means they have subjected it to their extremely sucky hosting system. So Virb has to not only compete with 2 million other social networks, but they also have to deal with tons of downtime, lost data and hosting glitches… DOA

By: fb3406485

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:35:42 +0000

Interesting history addition:

There used to be a site called MP3.com. It started as a way for bands to share singles for free. Some entrepreneurs tried to revamp it into a music-in-the-cloud offering. They demoed it for the record industry, who sued them into oblivion. (The RIAA claimed the very demo itself constituted copyright infringement).

Some college kids from Boston started a much prettier version of the original MP3.com called PureVolume. Unfortunately, MySpace has stolen a lot of mindshare in the indie music space, so a lot of people no longer update PureVolume. That sucks because PureVolume was/is a sweet site.

The guys who made PureVolume started a side-project called Virb and focused their energies there.

I’m not affiliated with any of this – I just like stories. I have no idea if the (mt) incarnation of Virb is still affiliated with PureVolume.