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JibJab is Now Ad-Free! (Almost)

November 23, 2009 – 7:13 pm

We’re thrilled to announce that JibJab.com has been stripped of 90% of all banner ads! There are still a few spots here and there that contain ads but they are off the most visited sections of our website and the remaining ads will be coming down in the weeks and months ahead. Why are we […]

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How-To Starring You

November 12, 2009 – 7:04 pm

One question we get quite often is “how do you make a Starring You video?”. It’s a simple process, but we found it kind of hard to sum up without visual accompaniment. While you can find instructions while making a video and additional information in our FAQ, we’ve decided to go another step and create […]

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Making Good Use of the Mash [UPDATE]

October 22, 2009 – 4:25 pm

We always get a kick out of how fans keep finding new ways to use JibJab Starring Yous. With Monster Mash this month, we’ve seen folks apply the technology into some new situations that were so awesome we had to share. The Arizona Orthadontic Studio outside of Pheonix is running an all-orthadontist Monster Mash in […]

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Our Backgrounds Should be Your Backgrounds!

October 21, 2009 – 4:36 pm

We’re so proud of the backgrounds our design team cooked up for the Monster Mash that we’re offering some of our favorites up at high resolution for you to use as your desktop wallpaper! Click the images below to nab a bigger version of them and right click to set as your desktop background. […]

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Vote us for Most Creative Use of Facebook Connect!

October 14, 2009 – 6:14 pm

Pssst. Got a free second? We’re hankering for a nomination at Mashable’s 3rd annual open web awards and you can help us out! Since early this summer, we’ve fully integrated Facebook Connect into our site, allowing people to grab photos from their friends’ Facebooks albums and easily post Starring You creations to any Facebook wall. […]

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Soul Train Facebook Contest

September 8, 2009 – 8:24 pm

In celebration of the release of Soul Train Starring You videos on JibJab, we’re hosting a Facebook “like-off”! Official Rules: Post your Soul Train dance to your Facebook wall and rally your friends to press the “like” button underneath it. Post a screen shot of your video’s “likes” to the official JibJab Facebook wall (www.facebook.com/jibjab) […]

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New Everyday Fun Structure!

July 22, 2009 – 11:27 pm

Use this video to better aquaint yourself with the new structure of Everyday Fun on JibJab!

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New head placement tools!

July 7, 2009 – 5:16 pm

We had so much fun with the video tutorial yesterday that we decided to do another one! You ever upload a head to one of our Starring You cards and found that the head just doesn’t fit right? Well, we now have a solution for you: last week we added the ability to move your […]

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New ways to browse our stuff

July 6, 2009 – 5:47 pm

If you hadn’t noticed it already, we’re excited to let you know we added five new ways to sort content within each Category page (Ex: Movies): 1. Videos 2. Pictures 3. Starring You 4. Top Picks 5. Newest Rather than try to explain this all out for you in words, we decided to have some […]

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Facebook Connect Updates: Post Directly to Walls!

July 2, 2009 – 9:29 am

Our second update in less than a month to our site’s structure has much to do with sharing JibJab on facebook. Among the features we are ecstatic about is the ability to post directly to a friend’s wall from our site. Before one had to copy and paste the link from JibJab, then sign into […]

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You Can Now Facebook Connect!

June 11, 2009 – 6:02 pm

Facebook connect is one of the coolest features on the internet, letting you ditch your endless usernames and passwords that you keep at various websites and allowing you to just sign in using the one account you use the most anyways, your facebook! As soon as we heard about this ability, we knew JibJab had […]

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Brand New Look, Same JibJab Flavor

May 28, 2009 – 7:45 pm

If you’re browsing around JibJab tonight, you may notice that our eCards and Everyday Fun sections have had a drastic new makeover! We’ve been working for months to apply new features to the site and now that they’re up, we’re excited to offer areas that will be updated on a daily basis, pointing out the […]

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iJibJab?

May 11, 2009 – 5:47 pm

Our product team has loaded up the development pipe with more new web features than you can shake a stick at. That means if you saw our Director of Development’s to-do list, you would want to crawl under a blanket and call out for your mommy. Does Chris do that? Heck no! In his spare […]

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Shaking Up Starring You

May 7, 2009 – 5:47 pm

Scribbling on the back of a napkin to express an idea is so 2008. Here, Phillip uses a napkin, sugar packs and salt and pepper shakers to express some thoughts he has on how to make casting Starring You a better user experience. (Of course, there was beer involved).

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Giving Tech some Respect

April 27, 2009 – 5:33 pm

Most people have no idea what kind of coding goes into an interactive site like ours, especially when you’re coming up with and modifying the kind of tools that nobody has ever created before. Our tech force is immensely important when it comes to behind-the-scenes at JibJab and today is a great example: tech just […]