Happy New Year! We've gone over the 100 active user count and couldn't be happier. This year marks a new year for the website and we're excited about the things to come and hope you are too. We'd love some feedback on what you like and don't like about the site and hope you continue to find the site's content interesting and fun.

We're making great progress with users and have had some great uploads recently! We should let you know what we have changed the registration process in order to verify email addresses to create a better experience. All account must first be verified through a confirmation email before they are able to be used on Shop it. Share it. We had to do this to ensure accuracy of contact information. We realize it's an additional step in registering, but strongly feel the solution was the best for continued success!

There will be no change for all previously registered accounts...

Hello 50 users...We've excited to have passed the 50 user mark. We're starting small and seeing some increased traction and are really excited about it. We're especially excited that we're getting input from the community with regards to features and other tips that users would prefer to see. Your suggestions make it much easier. Keep 'em coming!

There seemed to be a glitch when you went through the random category, you would every so often come across one of your items and not be able to go forward. We're resolved this and began toying with the front page layout for alternate engagements.

More news...in efforts to improve how the pictures and pages look on smaller screens, we made some changes to limit the vertical size of the photos and their associated thumbnails. Previously, 768 screens were having to scroll quite a ways before they saw the entire picture and reached the comments.

We also sized down the log in the header to limit the vertical space taken up by the whole header section. I'm hoping we have a much larger overhaul coming, so we'll keep you posted. Traffic is growing...

A few more changes today...some code was added to dynamically change the label of the "price" on the upload form when the "sale" checkbox is check. This will help differentiate the price field and I hope clear up and confusion that might exist with regards to what to input.

We're looking for opinions on how to drive additional uploads. It seems people are reluctant to upload pictures for one reason or another. We've thought about a mobile-type app, which would definitely make it easier to upload, but far less easy to implement, hence the delay in doing something like that. However, we're always open to opinions, so please write us through the contact form, feedback form, or email posted at the bottom to help.

Today we were lucky to be featured on another startup site. You can find the article here: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/shopitshareit-com-a-new-fashion-community. Rather than send out another annoying mass email, I think we'll hold off on the force voting tactic.

In addition, we added some interesting new features today. A few people had mentioned confusion with regards to the price textbox in the upload form. If the product was on sale, they didn't know whether to post the original price or the sale price. So to make it easier, we added a checkbox for users to specify whether the item was on sale or not. If so, the sale tag will show up when viewing the product in the listing. To clarify, the price should be whatever you actually paid for the item. We thought about changing the form label, but we'll stick with this solution and modify if we hear additional feedback about it being difficult. We also made some corrections to how the profile page was being shown.

There have been a significant number of updates in the world of Shop it. Share it. since we last checked in. We have made some logic changes to the site to hopefully provide a more seamless viewing experience. Previously, the uploads were viewed randomly in the categories, so since there aren't a significant number of uploads in some categories, there was a potential that a viewer could see the same upload more than once. Today we release some changes that will not only remove this potential, but also present you with the most recent uploads first, so that you can check back sooner and see the things you've missed.

Last week we were featured on Discovering Startups. We reached out to the Shop it. Share it. community and were lucky enough to receive a significant number of votes on the site. We're hoping the great feedback we received will propel us to the featured category of the site. If you haven't voted yet, please do so by going to Discovering Startups and click the "Vote" button at the top right.

That's all for now. Please check back soon and tell as many of friends as possible...

Today marks the launch of shopitshareit.com. We're excited to finally having people starting using it. Please let us know if you find something difficult or would like to see particular feature added. Expect to see features added as we go and we will post the progress of the site as well. Enjoy and happy shopping!