We’ve had “virtual chumbys” available for awhile, but we recently launched a “virtual chumby” application on the new Facebook platform, which is very exciting. If you have a Facebook account, log in, and go the “virtual chumby” application page and add it to your profile. If you don’t already have a Facebook account, why don’t you? If you don’t already have a Chumby account (again, why don’t you?), you can create one and then build a widget channel for your virtual chumby on Facebook. When your friends visit your Facebook page, they’ll see what’s on your chumby …or at least they virtually will.
Note: we recognize that this isn’t as good as it should be yet, and we’ll be improving this application over time, so it will only get better :^)
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June 20, 2007 at 6:43 am
“Early summer” has been and gone, and no changes to the website. Is this project dead? Where are the updates, release date and -gasp- communications that are expected of companies these days?
June 20, 2007 at 6:25 pm
We’ll ship the product when it’s ready, not before. Presumably you want to get a properly functioning product as much as we’d like to ship one.
At best we’ve given indications when we expect to ship, but we haven’t made public promises about a particular “drop dead” date because that would be stupid and pointless.
I have a full-fledged right-from-the-factory production chumby sitting on my desk, awaiting final software, which is in QA.
The site has actually gone through a lot of major changes, most of which aren’t obvious, mostly in preparation for the production shipments. There’s a *lot* of stuff that’s up but not publicly accessible yet.
If we really want to play semantic games, however, “summer” officially begins in June and ends in September.
June 21, 2007 at 12:27 am
So I have a virtual chumby, how do i change its virtual skin?
Thanx
June 21, 2007 at 12:31 am
One more thing, I understand your reluctance to give a date for the chumby to be on sale, but do you have an approxamate deadline or date? Is it possible to be on a waiting list for the soon-to-come chumbys?
Hungry for a Chumby
June 21, 2007 at 12:48 am
chumby is the best
June 24, 2007 at 8:18 am
Keep the faith, we’re almost there: https://chumby.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/launch-plans-and-product-features/
The reason we’re a little delayed is because we’ve built the chumby around the brand-new Adobe Flash Lite 3 software and added the ability for you to see Internet video on it. I think you’ll agree it was worth the extra time :^)
July 29, 2007 at 4:11 pm
“If you don’t already have a Chumby account (again, why don’t you?)”
Haha, um, maybe I don’t because managing accounts suck! I’m very reluctant to make any sort of contribution to an online community if I have to sign up first. It’s just not worth my while, even for something as exciting as the chumby.
March 4, 2008 at 11:02 am
hey, this is great information have any more websites that i can go to for more great info? thanx