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[EN] As some of you may have noticed, ipernity has been down for about two hours this morning. The outage was caused by an extraordinary load on one of our databases which caused a side effect on the whole website. We are now analysing the situation and going to take mesures against this problem for the future. We apologize for any inconvenience. [NL] Zoals sommigen van jullie misschien gemerkt hebben lag ipernity eruit vanmorgen gedurende ongeveer twee uren. De storing werd veroorzaakt doo…

New "Suggest a group" feature We've just improved the process to suggest adding documents to groups. In a few words: -- group admins no longer need to use comments to make suggestions (no more spam!) -- doc owners are notified of suggestions in their Activity page -- doc owners no longer need to join a group before adding a suggested document -- suggestions are centralized for each document on its main page Here is how it works now: [1] Group administrators can now suggest adding…

After several months of hard work, we are proud to announce... ...the ipernity API ;) Welcome, developers! The API gives you freedom to create new applications that are powered by ipernity functionalities: web services, device applications, gadgets... We've done everything to make the ipernity API simple and fun to use, even if you're not an experienced programmer. Each API method is implements a specific function and is well documented. Better yet, you can try e…

* 31/10/2008 update * Contributions are now closed. Thanks to all for your participation. [EN] Promote your photos on a giant screen in Berlin Ku’damm with Ford Fiesta! In October 2008, Ford Fiesta gives ipernity members the chance to be promoted on the Ford Fiesta Mega-LED-Screen (104 m2!) in the middle of Berlin Ku’damm. Look at that, wow! If you would like to see your pictures there, simply join that ipernity group : This is now! and add your best photos. The…

Dear friends, As you know, we are still working on releasing the ipernity API. Almost 80% is done but it's time consuming and while working on this project, we cannot progress on other improvements and new features (remember we are only 2 programmers). So we decided to make a short coffee-break last week to complete one of our "secret" projects ;)... BitTorrent! As from now, ipernity proposes a solution to share voluminous contents such as full-lenght personal videos or entire folders of tho…

Hello all We need more volunteers to help us in completing translation of ipernity into: - Portuguese (European) - Portuguese (Brazilian) - Danish - Swedish - Norwegian - Finnish - Galician - Hungarian - Polish - Czech - Japanese We need members translating from English or French or Esperanto. Requirements: - mother-tongue in one of the targeted languages - perfectly fluent i…

You'd love to work in the French Silicon Valley and to participate to a fantastic adventure on the internet? The ipernity (dream) Team is growing! We are looking for: Junior software engineer Skills - Linux environment + Open Source technologies - PHP / PERL / JAVASCRIPT / AJAX programming - HTML / XML / JAVASCRIPT standards and peculiarities - ideally, C / C++ / JAVA - ideally Flex / Flash / ActionScript Professional background - 0 to 3 years, involved in at least one s…

You'd love to work in the French Silicon Valley and to participate to a fantastic adventure on the internet? The ipernity (dream) Team is growing! We are looking for: ActionScript / Flash developer Skills - algorithmic, script programming - very good level in ActionScript 1, 2 and 3 - Flash 8 and 9 - global knowledge in Web technologies: HTML, PHP, Javascript - ideally, computer graphics skills Background - at least 2 years in Web programming - experienced in Flash/ActionS…

ipernity is proud to enable the first social mashup of the brand new Google Translate API. Members and visitors can now request "on the fly" translations of posts, comments, discussions, descriptions, iperMails... written in foreigner languages*.   Translation is made from/into 23 languages*. Of course, automated translation is not perfect but we are convinced it brings ipernity members and visitors a real added value for a global understanding. Thanks to this new feature, ipernity bec…

[EN] Thanks to your support messages and to PicLens team, ipernity now supports PicLens 3D wall viewing of complete docs streams, favorites, albums, keywords tags, docs posted in groups...  How does it work? 1) install PicLens plugin for your browser 2) go back to ipernity, then go to a docs stream, album, group or favorites page 3) drag your mouse onto one photo thumbnail, you'll see a new arrow button at the bottom left... 4) just click it and enjoy! [DE] Danke für Eure Unterst…

[EN] PicLens is a cool plugin transforming your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for online photos and videos. See a demo here . We'd love to make ipernity fully compliant with PicLens. It would give members and their visitors the possibility to view photos streams, photos albums, even photos posted in groups... on a 3D full screen black wall. Klass! We implemented a basic RSS-based integration of PicLens, allowing for instance to view through PicLens the last 20 posted publi…

[EN] As from now, you can touch up your photos imported in ipernity: we now support Picnik photo editing features. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, fun and free ! Time for a try! PS: we asked Picnik for a better integration and for advanced features such as importing photos from Picnik to ipernity.  * edit: please stop…

[EN] As we told you last week: "... we've improved many "underground" things... and a few visible things that we'll speak about later ." It's now time to talk about the first visible improvements (others are coming very soon): 1. You can now rearrange your docs stream! How does it work? By simply changing the posted date. You can edit this date document by document (through one doc page), or using the DocManager. 2. We changed the sharpening algorithm to make it smoother. Older photo…

[en] Hello friends, ipernity is back at 18h20 (GMT+2) after 8h of hard work. We have prepared this maintenance since two weeks and we did our best to make it as short as possible. We've improved many "underground" things (storage system, database replication, ...) - and a few visible things that we'll speak about later. Again thanks for your patience. We wish you a great weekend. [fr] Bonjour les amis, ipernity est à nouveau opérationnel à 18h20 (GMT+2) après 8h de dur labeur…

[EN] Dear members, We are currently doing invisible things to make some new exciting features possible. The service needs to be temporarily cut off for maintenance operations. We apologize in advance for this inconvenience. Thank your very much for your understanding. See U in a bit ;-) The ipernity Team.  ipernity will NOT be available during 5 hours tomorrow Saturday the 17th of May 2008 GMT+10: Sydney time from 05:00 pm to 10:00 pm GMT+8: Beijing, Taipei from 03:…

[EN] Good news: we are now ready to translate ipernity into those following languages: -          Swedish -          Norwegian -          Finnish -          Greek -          Galician -          Hungarian -          Polish -          Czech -          Japanese We need members who could help us in translating from English or French to one of those languages. * update * translators from Esperanto welcome! Volunteers requirements: - mother-tongue in one of the targeted l…

[EN] You use to take pictures/videos with your cameraphone? Publish them with one click in your ipernity space, using Shozu application ;-) How to do this? 1) Go to your ipernity Preferences page, " Upload & blog by email " section You'll find an email address like something@doc.ipernity.com . Keep it with you. 2) Go to www.shozu.com and create your account. 3) Add ipernity in your sites list ("MyShozu" tab / "Add a site" button). Name for this site: ipernity T…

[EN] ipernity supports Art in all its forms, and aims to be more and more involved in Art exhibitions and contests. We started in April 2008, sponsoring the  Cap3000 photo contest . Some pictures here . We support today the 6th CARI art contest and exhibition CARI is a building company strongly involved in Sustainable Development and Art. It organizes each year a contest open to all forms of Art. The thema is "Building tomorrow together". CARI gives the chance to all the winners to b…