February 2012
1 post
New layout, new features
You may have noticed that a few days ago we’ve changed the layout a little bit, but that wasn’t all we’ve done. We’ve been working on many different things and I’d like to let you know about what’s already available.
New Layout
Let’s start with the most obvious one. We’ve improved the overall look and feel of the site, added more space between...
December 2011
2 posts
Animated Gifs
Before this week, when you hearted an animated gif from another site we converted it to a static image. Many of you wrote us asking that gifs remained animated, and we couldn’t agree more.
I’m happy to say that now We Heart It is a gif-friendly site! When you heart an animated gif it will now keep it’s animation.
We’ll display a play button over the image thumbnail, so...
Badges! Promote your heart
We see many posts on Facebook and Twitter of people sharing the link to their We Heart It page, so their friends can see the latest images they’ve hearted, and follow them.
Thinking of that we came up with image badges. We’ll generate for you an image with your latest hearts or any set you have, and you can post it to Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, or any other site you can post an...
October 2011
4 posts
Halloween costume ideas
I am really excited for Halloween, I’ve been searching for Halloween costume ideas on We Heart It like crazy and hearting my favorites.
So I created a set just for them, that way I can keep hearting everything I like and easily get back to my costume ideas set later as the day approaches.
Other users have done the same thing, and here are some of the best halloween and costumes sets for...
Log in with Facebook or Twitter
The internet today is social, and We Heart It is no different. It’s always better to share your new findings and inspiration with your friends, and see what they are up to.
If you are a We Heart It user already, you can easily find your friends from Facebook, Twitter and Gmail that are also on We Heart It and follow them.
Now we have something new. If your account is linked with Facebook...
Post new images to your heart
Every image on We Heart It has a little heart button over it that you can click to save the image to your heart. Now you can also add this special Heart Button to your browser and use it to heart images from any other website.
We’ve created browser extensions for the most used browsers among our visitors: Safari, Chrome and Firefox. If you use one of these you can download the extension...
Search! Search! Search!
Do you like spending time on We Heart It, searching for things you like, finding amazing images to heart and share with your friends?
We do too and we have some great news for you! We’ve just improved our search and it’s amazing, you have to test it.
Improved search results
Let’s play a game, look to your right, then search for the first thing that you see. I hope...
September 2011
3 posts
Auto-Tweet your hearts
You probably have already linked your Facebook account so when you heart something it appears on your Wall. Now you can do the same thing with Twitter!
Go to your settings page and on the right side you’ll see an option to link your Twitter account. After you do that you can choose to auto-post your hearts to Twitter.
How does it work? When you heart an image on the site it will post a...
Find your Gmail friends
Now you have another way to find your friends: Searching your Gmail address book!
It’s pretty simple, we’ll compare your address book with the users on We Heart It and try to find which of your friends already have an account on WHI. Then you can choose who you want to follow.
And we do this in a neat way, where we don’t store any of your friends’ email addresses, and...
Sets! Organize your hearts
Oh, long time since our last update. We’ve been working on quite a few big things lately, and today we’re launching the first of them: Sets.
Sets are groups of images you’ve hearted, organized by a theme. It’s almost like having different profiles for different things you love, but on the same place.
You can have sets for about anything: That new haircut you want to...
May 2011
2 posts
Your progress
When you log in you’ll notice something new. We found out that there are five things you can do to make your heart page more awesome. How many have you done already? I wonder if you can get to 100%… Let us know in the comments!
Complete your registration
When you create an account we only ask for four things: name, username, email and password. But you can complete your heart page with...
We Heart Facebook
Now you can link your We Heart It and Facebook accounts for extra awesomeness! We’ll auto-post your latest hearts once a day to your Facebook wall, making it super easy to share your hearts with your friends.
Ready to start? Click the button bellow:
Want to know more about it? Check you our help page
April 2011
3 posts
Find your friends
Looking for people to follow? What about your friends? It’s really easy to find your friends on WHI now.
You can connect your heart to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. We’ll try to find your friends and show you the ones that already have a WHI account.
When you follow your friends you can see their latests hearts on the Friends tab on the Explore page.
What are your friends hearting?
Do you know you can follow your friends on We Heart It? It’s the best way to keep track of what people you like are hearting, and discover new things to add to your own heart.
Ask your friends if they have We Heart it, tell them about it if they don’t. Get the whole gang there and follow everyone.
Similar entries
When you add tag to images, they become part of a family of photos. Images of animals, coffee, dresses, sunsets… And in order to help you better navigate these groups we created what we call similar entries.
When you click an image you can see different information on the sidebar. Right on the top you can see other images that share tags in common with the one you’re looking at.
...
March 2011
2 posts
Related tags
Tags are awesome. You can search for anything, from “fashion” to “food”, and find amazing images tagged with that word. They describe the image, and translate pixels into information.
Images may have more than one tag, in fact, the more tags the better since you’ll be able to find it more easily. That creates connections between different tags and they start to group...
Giving the blog another try
I’ve never considered myself the blogging type. I’m always doing too many things at the same time and it’s hard to take a break to write a post. I’m not that good with words.
That’s why I never had a personal blog, or kept the WHI blog updated. In fact that’s one of the reasons WHI was created, I didn’t want to use a blog to share and organize my...
December 2010
1 post
Outage on Dec 1st 2010
We’ve been growing really fast, thanks to our amazing users that come to the site everyday to get their daily dose of inspiration, and share their favorite images from the web using the site.
For that reason we need to constantly upgrade our servers. Having better servers and more servers means that the site can run better and faster for everyone. Just so you get the idea: we have 8...
January 2009
1 post
hey, do you digg us!?
http://digg.com/design/We_Heart_It_Visual_bookmark_for_everyone
November 2008
2 posts
New York Times
Hey, Jenna Wortham wrote about us on New York Times!!
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/tag-that-image-visual-bookmarking-sites-worth-browsing/
This is really nice. We’re only there because of the amazing images and videos that YOU add!! So thanks a lot!
JPG, PNG & GIF
Hey everyone.
Just to let you know we’ve added support to PNG and GIF. If you can’t heart PNG and GIF yet you can clean your browser cache to renew the bookmarklet.
We were holding it to release together with the new version of weheartit that is almost finished, but since many people were asking for it we decided to implement right away.
Have fun!
obs: PNG and GIF images will be...
October 2008
2 posts
Major background updates
A few weeks ago we’ve announced weheartit is growing really fast and we’re really happy about it.
So this past month we’ve done a lot of structural changes on the site, to accomodate this new users and keep the service good and open for everyone.
I’m talking about database and technical stuff. We’re doing this so the site can run faster and we don’t need to...
Thanks for the love
I’d like to thank all bloggers who have blogged about WeHeartIt so far, and Twitter users who are constantly sharing their love though twitter.
And a special thanks to Makoto Yamaguchi (Japan), John Manoogian III (United States) and Masha du Toit (South Africa) for donating money to weheartit. This gesture means a lot, more than the money itselt. Thanks for supporting the site.
September 2008
3 posts
Want to help?
Up until now we haven’t payed the necessary attention to Internet Explorer. Unfortunatelly IE doesn’t support bookmarklets quite the way other browsers do, so you can’t add the “i heart it” button to the browser window (like you can do on firefox or safari) and use it on any site…
But we want to bring this experience to everyone regardless of the browser they...
Update (03/27/11): Wow, that was a long time ago
We’re so happy to announce this: weheartit has over 10k users!!
v_vitoria is the user number 10.000! So cool that she’s from Brazil, just like us.
Thanks everyone! Weheartit is more than just a website, it’s a great community sharing amazing images and videos, and that’s all because of you!
We want to hear you!
Update: We’re not using get satisfaction anymore… if you want to get in touch you can do that here: http://weheartit.com/contact/
We’ve opened a get satisfaction page, it’s a place where you can ask questions, share ideas or report problems.
So go there: http://getsatisfaction.com/weheartit and feel free to write anything about weheartit there, we’ll answer you as soon as possible....