The Official bragster blog

Front page, totally unmissable. You can imagine the smiles on our faces when The Daily Star printed this article about our open dare to pelt BNP leader Nick Griffin with ethnic food.

The Daily Star also posted the story online, and we were also stoked to see stacks of online publications pick it up from all over the world, including this one on MSN India!

Looking forward to more bragster headlines…

Rather unexpected for 11.30am on a Monday morning, we had a surprise visitor to the office earlier today - bragster user tigertamer, coming in to hand deliver us something very special indeed he'd made for us!

Now how's that for a piece of fanmail? Of course, now the fight for where it's going to be put starts... Bertrand and Dan both want it above their desks, and Luke wants it on the wall by the lunch table.

Wherever it ends up though, massive thanks go out to tigertamer, showing again just how dedicated some bragsters are to the best website in the world!

Bragster is pleased to announce the launch of a new partnership on the site, giving you guys yet another chance to win prizes, and take your bragging to another level of cool. We’ve teamed up with adidas, to celebrate the release of the new f50i boot , bringing you the f50i challenge.

Throughout 2009, we will be launching a range of dares and challenges, designed to showcase your skills on the pitch. We’ve got a team of pros helping us out, with teams led by Tottenham star Jermain Defoe , and Aston Villa’s Ashley Young .

So which team are you going to play for? There’s premium adidas merchandise, game tickets, adidas profile medals, and even a chance to meet up with the pros all up for grabs. So head to the campaign homepage to see how you can get involved!

For a while now, the bragster tech team have been toiling away on a new video package. With new features and lots of quality improvements, and we're just an hour or two away from releasing it! Here's a sneak-preview of the new player:

What to expect from the new player:

- A Whole New Look - Did the rollover play bar ever go strange on you? The player has been restyled in order to add stability and reliability to your viewing experience

- Widescreen and no more stretching - The player now supports widescreen (16:9) and doesn't stretch smaller videos so they look crap. Awesome!

- High Quailty Mode - When a video supports it, an 'HQ' button will be displayed. Clicking this will allow you to watch the video in even higher quality!

- bragster watermark - All videos now have a small 'bragster' watermark in the bottom-right corner, so when your content goes global everyone knows where to come to see more of your stuff!

- Even more video formats are now supported! - Sweet.

- Better processing - There should be much, much fewer issues such as sound missing or sync problems...

- Faster processing - ...and it'll be done quicker!

How's about that? As always, let us know what you think!

A while back, we dared Tango to print their cans upside down (and slap a bragster logo on them) - and being the great people they are, they accepted our challenge!

Now that the new upside down cans are out in the shops, we thought we'd get back together with Tango and celebrate... by literally turning London on its head!

The bright orange swimwear-clad flashmob hit several landmarks around London with their inverted antics, including Millenium Bridge, St. Pauls Cathedral, Tate Modern, and London Bridge. Naturally this caused quite a stir in the press - you can read and see more over at The Sun and thelondonpaper

In other news this week, our marvelous tech team have just released a site update which includes even more new features we're pretty sure you bragsters are going to love:

Firstly, the search functionality has been massively improved - as well as showing many more results, you can now filter them to show only users/dares/brags/teams/groups, which should make it much easier to find that dare you wanted to enter, or the brag you wanted to link a friend to.

Also, "open dares" are now open... permanently! - We saw a lot of users wanting to enter dares that had already been closed, or not getting the recognition they deserved for clearly beating someone else's entry to a dare.

So, we decided to keep open dares, well, open! You can still choose a winner for an open dare you've created, but at the same time, the dare is never really over - other users can still add their entries, and if one of them is better... well, you can declare a new winner!

As always, let us know what you think on the feedback group, and keep bragging!

Well if you do, bragster needs you for a TOP SECRET event that is sure to make you all rich and famous! Well, maybe not rich but it may get you in a newspaper or two. Oh and it has nothing to do with buses, I just couldn’t think of anything else that said London like a big red bus.

Next Wednesday, May 6th we are going to be doing something pretty cool in the city of London, and we want YOU to be a part of it. So clear your calendar, and email ash@bragster.com for more details.

Let the party begin….

Oh and while you’re clearing your calendar check us out strutting our stuff in this video created for Geek’n’Rolla, a conference run by TechCrunch for European start ups.

I think you’ll agree that bragster have the sweetest moves….

Who needs to hire models when we've got this kinda talent at bragster HQ? Exactly.

We're excited to announce some rad new tee designs available for purchase in the bragster store!

The sun is on it way, so get yourself a brand spankin new bragster summertime tee and wear with pride. And who knows...we may even offer a special prize to the bragster that can upload an even more embarassing photo in their summertime tee than Luke and Adam!!!

Get on it bragster fashionistas!

In other random and exciting news, kudos goes out to Greg Staples for this rad take on the bragster gorilla. Dan caught up with him over the weekend and scored this rad sketch. Hollah.

March 2009 saw the launch of an exciting campaign forged between Tango and bragster.com, a partnership that has just taken a very exciting turn. After a dare from the bragster team to “print their cans upside down, complete with a bragster logo”, it seems Tango have indeed come up with the goods. This week, production of 2.5 million specialty upside down cans began, due to hit stores throughout the UK by mid May.

The highly interactive campaign has also seen bragster users worldwide engaging in tango themed dares of all kinds, with the creation of new and exciting user generated content stemming directly from the partnership. The campaign is set to continue well into 2009, with the promise of more surprises from both the users, and the Tango/bragster team.

All the action has taken place at www.bragster.com/tango, the hub for the campaign.

Watch the guys head to the tango factory to see the very first cans produced!

Today was a very good day indeed for the bragster.com tech team - their new toy arrived!

Our latest and greatest server (shown here with Andy, codename to be announced) is a real beast at 2U, twice the physical size of those we have already. When it comes online sometime next week, it'll be straight to work on processing your brags as you upload them, meaning this process should be much quicker from now on!

Meanwhile...

The rest of us didn't get something exciting in the post, so we left the tech team to play with their server while we went downstairs for a bit... But what could we possibly have been doing to end up like this?!

Bertrand

Dan

Your answers on a postcard please...

We’re looking for a self-motivated, highly enthusiastic intern to join the bragster.com team at our awesome HQ in Spitalfields, London, about a 5 minute walk from Liverpool Street Station. The position would ideally suit a current university student or recent graduate, studying media, PR, marketing, or advertising, but anyone with relevant experience and a genuine interest is welcome to apply. .

The job function is primarily that of media research and talent scouting, although there will be opportunities to get stuck into the more creative media side of things on occasion as well. You must be able to write well, and have a good knowledge of a variety of social media and networking sites, in addition to a strong affinity for the bragster brand.

You'll come into our offices between 3 and 5 days a week, and be paid a small amount, based on performance, your goal here is to get some valuable work experience in an exciting start-up environment!

About Us

bragster is the largest social network for daring, boasting and bragging. Ego is everything at bragster, and users get to dare their friends and brag about their own talents, for which they earn “Bragging Rights”. The Guardian recently called us “Jackass meets Facebook”, a very apt description indeed, and while some of our users do the most outrageous stunts or pranks, others just brag about how good they are at skating or gaming. bragster is becoming ever more popular with people in the UK and US, and growing extremely fast.

We're a small team, so it’s important that you get along with everyone – a good sense of humour and adventure is a massive plus! If you check the site, and read more about us on the team page, you'll quickly get a sense for yourself of what we're all about, so step away from the computer, get out of the house, and get your bragster on!

Interested?

Send your CV and contact details to dan@bragster.com AND tell us what you like about bragster, as well as what you'd like to see more of on the site.

We’re not sure if this guy is the world’s biggest CRANK fan, or if he simply was falling behind on his rent…but either way – we think he’s tops. Big kudos to Sh4rpy, who this week changed his name via deed poll to “Chev Chelios”, right here at bragster HQ. And what did he get in return? Well apart from loads of free merch, and a photoshoot with two bikini girls – he scored a whopping $1000 USD (or 700 quid for those of you in these parts). Check the video out below, and while you’re there – check out the CRANK 2 group – where there are a stack more prizes to be won.

Sh4rpy also got his fifteen minutes of fame, with various media outlets picking the story up – you can also get the full story in the press here