Happy Birthday to Us! ourfaves.com turns 1 today!

Ourfaves is 1 year old today – Yeeeeeeehaaaa! What a great feeling to reach 1 years old and to be growing strong – we hit a record traffic month again for April 08! Thank you so much to everyone who has helped make ourfaves.com the awesome community it is  – without you, Ourfaves would not be useful at all. Stay tuned as a party to celebrate is in the works – can’t wait to share the deets soon. I couldn’t ask for a better way to celebrate our birthday than to see all the amazing momentum that is building at ourfaves.com. In the past month, our team has doubled in size, the enthusiasm and energy in the office is totally contagious, we have some amazing plans to build out the platform and the community, local businesses are giving us the nod on what a great job we are doing spreading word of mouth online, we are eagerly getting other cities ready to launch and the original team is back at it! So happy birthday to us – and thanks to everyone for getting us here – we can’t wait for Year 2!

We’re 1! Happy Birthday OurFaves!

It seems like only yesterday we announced the birth of a tiny beta, launched into the web 2.0 world by its committed young creators – all of whom really had no idea what to expect next.

In a year’s time we’ve gone from a fledgling community to a site with over 2300 registered users, nearly 10,000 fave entries, and 170,000 unique visitors this month alone. We’d really like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the enthusiastic contributors and OurFaves community members, the many awesome people who have helped to build, grow and support the site, and to all of Toronto for just being so damn amazing and fave-worthy.

The OurFaves crew hit the town a couple times this week in celebration of a great year, and a great city.

Have a look at some photos from our adventures at the SummerCamp Dance Party at CiRC A, a super event that brought together Toronto’s art, design, communications, technology, media, social change and entrepreneurship communities. And peek in at our night at the “I GET T.O.” party at the Gladstone – a night celebrating Jane Jacobs’ legacy and spring in the city, co-sponsored by Green Enterprise Toronto and PEN Canada.

And get set for more fun in the city – we’ll soon be announcing plans for our birthday party! Stay tuned.

Huy and Candice

Candice and Robin

3 monkeys at CIRcA

the DJ

multimedia ambiance

croc-o-phile

Tim and Donald – Dev team extraordinaire

some cool interactive games

fave vodka soda

rabbits with a habit – a decor theme

coming soon…

Cand and Robin

Robin and Cand on CIRcA rabbits

Robin and Gabe Sawhney

Gladstone Karaoke Host and his replica doll, and OurFaves Featured Faver Venetia B.

Michael S. and Sarah – favers extraordinaire

Marc Breton’s Gladstone kitchen creations.

The OurFaves team and friends

Francis and Katherine – our interns – and friends

Robin, Leslie of GET and Molly Crealock

Morris dancers to celebrate May Day

A Morris dancer serves Erin R., part of the fave gang

author Katherine Govier

jazzy mood music for our listening pleasure

Chris Lowry of GET, Molly, Leslie, and guitar hero of the jazz band