We’ve just launched the uberVU Private Beta. Hooray!

I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t this like, the third Beta or something? What’s so special about this one? And how many more Private Betas will there be?

We have some explaining to do.

This is the Private Beta for the uberVU that won Seedcamp in September. uberVU is about finding out what people are saying all over the web around stories. These stories might be something you came across while surfing the Web or something that you published to your blog, your Twitter account, etc.

uberVU is now trying to map the conversational graph on the Web. In the past, uberVU was a multi-service publishing platform. Two totally different things, hence the new Beta.

So how does this work?

1. You either click a bookmarklet while you’re browsing a story you’re interested in and we start mapping the conversation around it

2. You tell us where you publish stuff and every time you publish something new, we automatically track the conversation around it. You don’t have to do anything else.

Interesting, you might say, but why this change?

We started building a publishing platform because that’s what we felt we needed at the time. In the mean time, we thought

“why not also get comments for what you published? That’s time consuming to track”.

It was a good idea, but then we noticed that a certain story got comments everywhere on the Web, not just where it was published. We thought:

“This is actually the tricky part. Getting distributed conversations together. This is really difficult to do right now and very time consuming”

We started working on the technology, it worked for people’s blogs, YouTube accounts, etc. But it kind of made sense to use the technology for any story, not just the stories you publishes, but any story you might find interesting. So it was time to get back to work. Fast forward to a few months later and we’re here, launching the uberVU Private Beta.

We’ll be sending about 200 invites/day so in a few days everybody on the list will get to use uberVU.

We’re sorry for the long wait guys, we changed the product 3 times and we had a lot of work to do to get it to this stage.

We built uberVU for you guys, so you know the drill: FEEDBACK PLEASE. You can tell us what you think here:

* hello@ubervu.com
* getsatisfaction.com/ubervu
* @ubervu on Twitter

Thanks and looking forward to hearing your thoughts.