The YourVersion team has been hard at work cooking up sweet updates for all of our apps! With the new iPad 2 and the slew of Android Tablets that are launching, we want to make sure everyone using a tablet or their smart phone can access YourVersion on-the-go. If you have a smart phone or an even smarter tablet, then YourVersion’s got an app for that!

We’ve released four new app updates for Android Tablets, Android Phones, iPads and iPhones. Here’s a quick run down:

-Our new Android Tablet app v1.2 update has been built for Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb) and improves the screen layout for Android tablets with screen sizes larger than 1024 x 600 pixels. (This includes the new Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) We also support the 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab. Download the free YourVersion Android tablet and try it for yourself!

-The new iPad v2.0 app update has our new Quora channel, your list of stories loads more quickly and we added some great looking toolbar button icons on the story screen. Try the v2.0 YourVersion HD app and let us know what you think!

-The new iPhone v2.2 app is loaded with our new Quora channel to see the latest questions and answers on topics you care about and our Videos channel to see the latest, relevant videos by your specific interests. In addition, your list of stories loads more quickly and we improved toolbar button icons on the story screen. Finally we verified compatibility with iOS 4.3.

Try the latest iPhone update today!

-For the Android app v1.4, we added the new Quora channel. We also improved the toolbar button icons when viewing a story web page. Download the YourVersion Android app today!

We’d love to hear your feedback on these apps! Drop us an email and let us know what you think!

Quora, which is a question and answer site, has great content and is used by lots of people who are asking great questions and providing in depth, knowledgeable answers. With our new Quora channel, you can easily follow the important questions and answers by your specific interest. And, as you browse the Quora questions on YourVersion, you’re just a click away from sharing your Quora findings on Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail.

Try the Quora feature out today on our website, or on our free mobile apps for iPad, Android Tablet, iPhone, Android Phone. We’re super excited about it and hope you are too. Please try it out today and let us know what you think!

Thanks to everyone that came by our table at the LAUNCH Conference. We appreciate all the positive feedback, questions and suggestions. if you are a startup and looking to demo, we recommend you take a look at the next LAUNCH Conference. We had an awesome time and met a lot of great people!

Also, be sure to try out the new Quora channel on. We’d love to hear what you think!

Still wearing Hammer pants? You’re ‘that guy’.
‘Tweet’ isn’t part of your vocabulary? Yup, you’re ‘that guy’.
Don’t know who Justin Bieber is? You are definitely ‘that guy’.

Here at YourVersion, we want to celebrate the end of ‘that guy’ with all of you. Simply tweet a link to our ‘That Guy’ video page http://bit.ly/yvtg for the chance to win a brand new Android phone or YourVersion t-shirt!

We’re picking a new winner every three days. Each tweet & re-tweet gives you one more chance to win, so good luck and happy tweeting!

We’ve reached some significant milestones for the company over the past year. Our team has a shared vision of changing the way we discover and consume web content. We’ve put a lot of our work into our product this year and you can read about the features and innovations we’ve delivered below.  It also helps that we really enjoy spending time together because it’s made our work-time feel a lot more like play-time.

The tech world has seen big changes this year with the introduction of the iPad and the growth of Android. Mobile apps on these platforms have really enhanced the way we consume web content. Likewise, we’ve built free YourVersion apps for both the iPad and the Android this year to complement our pre-existing free iPhone app. It’s incredible how quickly things have changed and we’re happy to be finding new ways to connect our users with the latest, relevant news tailored by their interest wherever and whenever they want it.

On that note, we’ve added to our suite of YourVersion browser tools this year. In addition to our Firefox toolbar, we’ve released a Chrome Extension and a Safari Extension to allow users to discover, bookmark, and share stories straight from their browser. For all other browsers, our bookmarklet will provide you with the same set of tools.

We’ve also entered into the world of blogs this year. We introduced a fully-customizable YourVersion widget to enhance personal and/or professional blogs. Our widget provides a real-time feed on the topic of your choice and can be customized by size and color. This is an exciting new space for us and we think there’s a lot of ways that we can iterate and improve on this in the new year.

As many of you have probably heard, recent news about Yahoo’s decision to sunset the bookmarking website Delicious has sent Delicious users looking for alternatives. We’ve experienced an influx of users coming from Delicious over the past few weeks and we’ve made efforts to make that transition as simple as possible. With our ‘Delicious Import‘ function, it’s incredibly easy to bring all of your Delicious bookmarks, tags and notes into your YourVersion account. You’ll also enjoy many of the same features  that you’ve grown accustomed to in conjunction with our unique suite of discovery and sharing features. Expect more improvements in the new year.  For more details on importing your Delicious bookmarks, getting the YourVersion browser tools for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and other browsers to bookmark on-the-go, and using the YourVersion Profile page to share your bookmarks with your friends, see our blog post.

Whew, we’ve been busy this year! Last, but certainly not least, we owe a big THANK YOU to the entire YourVersion community. We started with the vision of building an easy-to-use way to browse the latest web content based on user interests, but the future is now in your hands. You are the true drivers of our product and we work tirelessly to enhance our offerings to provide you with the user experience that you want. With that in mind, we have two simple requests for all of you.

One: Continue to send us feedback on our product. Tell us what you like (to make us happy) and what you don’t like (so we can improve). You can easily reach us through email, Twitter, or Facebook and we’re always happy to hear from you!

Two: If you like our product, please invite your friends about us! We’ve put a lot of work into our product and we’re very proud of what we’ve built. We want to share what we’ve done with more people and we can only do that with your help!

Thanks again to everyone who has helped to make 2010 a truly magical year. On behalf of the entire YourVersion team, we wish you all a very happy new year!

To watch a brief overview of importing your Delicious bookmarks, tags and notes, please click on our new video Importing Delicious Bookmarks & Tags Into YourVersion.

1.  Go to http://yourversion.com in your browser and log in using your email, Facebook Connect or Twitter login credentials.  Don’t have an account yet?  Click here to register (it just takes a few seconds).

2.  After logging in, you will be on the Discover page.  Click on the Bookmarks tab at the top.  If you have not bookmarked any stories, the page will look like this:

3.  Click on the ‘Delicious Import’ link on the Bookmarks tab and enter your Delicious or your Yahoo ID credentials.  You also have the option to import your bookmarks, tags and notes using an XML file.

4.  YourVersion will then go out and instantly fetch your Delicious public and private bookmarks, tags and notes.  Any bookmarks you import will be deduped from your current YourVersion bookmarks.

5.  Your tags are then organized at the top of the page in an easy to navigate cloud in alphabetical order.  By clicking on a tag you can see the bookmarks that are associated with that tag.

New YourVersion iPhone v2.0 with Facebook Sharing!

Big news as Apple just approved version 2.0 of our YourVersion iPhone App! We’ve added Facebook sharing so you can easily post content to your Facebook wall. When you click on a story, simply click on the Facebook “f” icon located second from the right at the bottom of the page. There is a one time sign-in to Facebook and then you are able write a comment and publish the story to Facebook. We also improved the email sharing feature so you can stay within the app when you email a story so download this major update now and let us know what you think!

Life at The Dojo

We’ve been hanging out at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View lately and the people have been great! We’ve had the opportunity to meet people working on all kinds of interesting start-up projects. From robotics to a social collaboration site for dads who want to be great parents, there are a number of innovative ideas people are working hard to build. We have been warmly received and are truly enjoying our time here.

Five Guys Visit Five Guys

Maybe it was fate, but the day before we came to Hacker Dojo, a Five Guys Burgers and Fries, opened up right around the corner in Sunnyvale. Naturally, we had to make a visit for our team lunch. The consensus is that the burgers rivals In-N-Out and has more of a ‘great burger from the grill at a family reunion’ feel to it. The toppings for your burger are custom ordered so you have the freedom to select exactly what you want and to try different combinations. The double patties on the burgers were a surprise. The fries are big tasty steak fries which we all enjoyed. You can taste the freshness in the food. The place looks like In-N-Out on the inside and it’s clearly a hit because the place was packed. The only negatives are the food is slightly pricey and the “Order Online” feature needs some QA (ordering as a group was confusing as items were being deleted or not captured correctly). All-in-all, Five Guys is great and gets 5 big smiles from these 5 guys!

We love hearing from you!

As always, we value hearing your ideas, suggestions and feedback on the YourVersion website and also our suite of mobile products and browser tools.  You can email us, tweet at us or post on our Facebook wall.

In addition to our free iPhone app, we invite you to also try our free iPad and Android apps along with our browser tools for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and other browsers. Use our mobile apps and browser tools to discover great content and share it with your friends!  Give our product suite a try and let us know what you think. We’d love to hear from you.

What a weekend! Hope you had a fun Halloween full of candy and decorations. The YourVersion team had a blast on Saturday at the UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business for PLAY: The Berkeley Digital Media Conference. It may have been overcast with a little rain outside, but it was a party in Andersen Auditorium as we listened to great speakers like Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine and Michael Johnson, Moving Pictures Group Lead at Pixar. We even got a chance to play with the Microsoft Kinect demo hosted by Richard Velazquez.

We had a great time and enjoyed demoing the YourVersion website and our free iPad, iPhone and Android apps to conference attendees as well as getting some good feedback about our products. We enjoyed seeing Vator CEO and Founder, Bambi Francisco Roizen, once again and showing her the latest YourVersion updates. We always value getting the opportunity to introduce people to YourVersion as well as meeting current members of the YourVersion community and hearing their feedback. We really appreciate YourVersion iPad App power-user Miguel Martinez stopping by our demo table to say hello and give us his valuable feedback. Big thanks to UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business for hosting the event!

Dan demos YourVersion to Bambi Francisco Roizen

YourVersion co-founders Chris Haase and Dan Olsen listen to YourVersion HD iPad App power-user Miguel Martinez

Crank That Dan Olsen

Arguably, the most anticipated moment of the day was the raffle to win a brand new Halo: Reach Xbox 360 bundle. All day, conference attendees were testing out the new Microsoft Kinect hardware playing games like table tennis, volleyball and Dance Central. Attendees were told to tweet at Richard Velazquez to enter the raffle but then he added a twist; he decided to select two attendees for the raffle and have them do a dance-off on the Kinect Dance Central game to determine the winner. Whichever, participant had the higher score would win the Halo: Reach Xbox 360 bundle.

We were stoked to hear our CEO and Co-founder, Dan Olsen, randomly selected as one of the participants for the dance-off! The song chosen for the dance-off was “Crank That Soulja Boy” by Soulja Boy and Dan was determined to win!

Thanks again to Rich and Microsoft. We are huge Halo fans!

We love hearing from you!

As always, we value hearing your ideas, suggestions and feedback on the YourVersion website and also our suite of mobile products and browser tools.  You can email us, tweet at us or post on our Facebook wall.

We invite you to also try our free iPad, iPhone or Android apps and our browser tools for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and other browsers. Use our mobile apps and browser tools to discover great content and share it with your friends!  Give our product suite a try and let us know what you think. We’d love to hear from you.

We are thrilled that Vantage Communications selected YourVersion as the winner of the ‘20/20′ Free PR Contest! More than 100 tech companies competed for the prize of $25,000 in strategic PR services.

“We feel very fortunate to be awarded such a substantial prize that will increase the awareness of YourVersion to a whole new level,” said Dan Olsen, CEO and co-founder of YourVersion, Inc. “Most people who try YourVersion really like the product, so the key goal for our company right now is to reach a large audience of prospective customers. Given Vantage Communications’ strong track record of performance, the timing couldn’t be better, and we’re excited to work together to achieve our goal.”

Obviously we couldn’t have won without the support of the YourVersion community and our fans so we would like to thank all of you who voted and the entire community for using YourVersion. With your help and support, YourVersion is the best place on the Web, iPad, iPhone and Android to discover, bookmark and share personalized web content by your specific interests.

Thank you!

We love hearing from you!

As always, we value hearing your ideas, suggestions and feedback on the YourVersion website and also our suite of mobile products and browser tools.  You can email us, tweet at us or post on our Facebook wall.

We invite you to also try our free iPad, iPhone or Android apps and our browser tools for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and other browsers. Use our mobile apps and browser tools to discover great content and share it with your friends!  Give our product suite a try and let us know what you think.  We’d love to hear from you.

Upcoming Event
Join us this Saturday, October 30th at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business for PLAY: The Berkeley Digital Media Conference.  We went last year and had a great time.  We are delighted to go again this year!

“Failure is success if we learn from it” – Malcolm Forbes

FailCon Pre-Launch Party

Last Thursday, we attended the FailCon Pre-Launch Party at “The Parlor” in San Francisco. The team had a great time demoing the YourVersion site and free iPad, iPhone and Android apps. Chris and Dan got a great shot with Cass Phillipps, entrepreneur and organizer of FailCon. After winning the People’s Choice Award last year, we look forward to attending the FailCon Conference again on Monday, October 25 so come on out!

Also, check out this interview with our CEO, Dan Olsen at the Pre-Launch Party.

Sidenote: Dan (PC) won the book, Switching to the Mac by David Pogue, in a raffle giveaway. Chris (Mac) was smiling about this (the irony!).

We love hearing from you!
Once you check out our new free Android app, take a second and let us know what you think. Send us an email, tweet, post on our Facebook wall. Feel free to give us any feedback and suggestions on how we can make the YourVersion site or our mobile apps (iPad/iPhone/Android) even better.

Upcoming Events
In the next few weeks we will be at some exciting events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Put them on your calendar and come on out!

• Monday, October 25 we will be attending the FailCon ‘10 Conference in San Francisco. This is a great event with fabulous people. Join us!
• Saturday, October 30 we will be at PLAY: The Berkeley Digital Media Conference at the Haas School of Business.  We are excited to go for a second year!

Download our just released free Android app and discover new and relevant content tailored to your specific interests…on the go! We are excited to bring the mobile discovery experience we have on our free iPad app and free iPhone app to Android phones.

To download the free YourVersion Android app, just search for “YourVersion” in the Android Market on your phone, install it and let us know what you think!

Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Search 3.0 panel
Thank you to everyone who came to hear our CEO, Dan Olsen, speak on Wednesday, September 22 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni panel on Search 3.0: Real-Time Search & Social Search. We had a great time and it was awesome to be a part of the discussion!

We love hearing from you!
Once you check out our new free Android app, take a second and let us know what you think. Send us an email, tweet, post on our Facebook wall. Feel free to give us any feedback and suggestions on how we can make the YourVersion site or our mobile apps (iPad/iPhone/Android) even better.

Upcoming Events
In the next few weeks we will be at some exciting events in the San Francisco Bay Area. Put them on your calendar and come on out!

• Thursday, October 7th at 7pm we will be attending the FailCon Pre-Launch Party at “The Parlor” in San Francisco.  The event is free so come out and meet the team!
• Monday, October 25 the team will be attending the FailCon ‘10 Conference in San Francisco. This is a great event with fabulous people. Join us!
• Saturday, October 30 we will be at PLAY:: The Berkeley Digital Media Conference at the Haas School of Business.  We are excited to go for a second year!