Nowadays, photo sharing is all around and provides a great and new approach to sharing moments of life. Far easier than sharing printed photos with remote members of the family or organizing a slideshow event in the dark with friends on a cold winter evening (when was the last you did this?).

But what about keeping the pictures of your loved ones for later, much later viewing? Wouldn’t it great to still be able to watch pictures of your childhood or of your parents’ childhood? No doubt.

Digital life is great but when it comes to make sure it resists time, specific measures need to be taken. Every 15 seconds a hard drive crashes. Your digital photos are a compilation of your life: weddings, babies, friends, parties, holidays… What do you do to preserve your photos? Of course, you can add external hard drives or you can burn CDs/DVDs, but all these solutions are time consuming, cost quite a lot when considering long term and, in the end, are you really sure that data will still be readable the day you want to access it? Did you try reading a writable CD after a couple of years? After having moved a couple of times, do you only know where the backup CDs are?

One solution addresses all these issues, online backup.

KoffeePhoto introduces KoffeePhoto Premium which includes unlimited online backup of your pictures. KoffeePhoto Premium provides you the serenity of fully automated backup and restoration of all your digital picture files. When a data loss happens, KoffeePhoto Premium will restore your whole photo library with a single click, no hassle. Preserve your photos for life for only 39,99 € a year ($59,99)! Your high resolution pictures always remain available.

For increased reliability, KoffeePhoto’s online photo backup solution is based on a multiple sites’ distributed storage.

As announced earlier, KoffeePhoto Japan is now a reality and is available at: http://www.koffeephoto.jp. Services include photo sharing, photo hosting and order of photo prints. While offering exclusive services to the japanese market, KoffeePhoto Japan remains interoperable with KoffeePhoto from all over the world.

Do we need to mention that KoffeePhoto Japan represents an important milestone in the development of KoffeePhoto?

KoffeePhoto photo sharing 2.5.91 has just been released. It fixes some software freezing issues.

Once again, nothing specific to do. Software will update itself while running.

Photo sharing obviously implies social interactions. These interactions need to be known in order to be leveraged by adding reactions.

With this in mind, we are now introducing the KoffeePhoto photo sharing activity summary. Its goal is to keep users in touch with activity of their photo sharing network, in terms of shared photo album browsing but also sharing fellows’ posts and latests comments. A random display of stored pictures adds an emotional value to the photo library. The summary also provides updated information with regards to the dependability of your photo album backup and much more.

The activity summary also includes latest information from KoffeePhoto’s sponsoring partners.

Delivery options can be set in the user’s profile. We are convinced it will improve the overall photo sharing experience using KoffeePhoto and look forward for your comments.

KoffeePhoto photo sharing 2.5.77 has just been released. Along with the usual bug fixes, it runs a new storage model and improves contact management.

Once again, nothing specific to do. Software will update itself while running.

KoffeePhoto gets listed in the Photo & Video section of the Java web site. See http://www.java.com/en/desktop/koffeephoto.jsp.

To be held next week, PMA 08 is the place to be when it comes to discussing between photography industrials and professionnals. Dealing with photo sharing or other topics, we’d be glad to meet and chat with potential partners as well as with users.

Please contact us so that we can arrange a meeting.

KoffeePhoto 2.5.60 has just been released. Along with bug fixes, it improves photo prints ordering management and supports other photo print products.

A warm welcome to SplashTee, our latest partner with KoffeePhoto photo sharing. SplashTee provides fine original hand painted T-shirts from your photographs. Simply select SplashTee in the Photo Gifts tab when ordering prints from KoffeePhoto. Currently SplashTee prefers works on portraits.

Today we’ve announced our recent strategic partnership with Tokyo based JetGraph Co Ltd, part of the Chugai Photo group of companies. According to this agreement, JetGraph will handle KoffeePhoto operations in Japan under the KoffeePhoto Japan brand starting in March 2008. KoffeePhoto Japan will include all KoffeePhoto free and unlimited online photo sharing solution and local photo organizing software features. KoffeePhoto Japan will fully interoperate with the world wide available KoffeePhoto photo sharing service.

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• KoffeePhoto enters strategic partnership with JetGraph for launching of KoffeePhoto Japan