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

We’ve justed started a Twitter account for KoffeePhoto. Start following KoffeePhoto’s Twitter account for instant updates about bugs, builds, buzz and more…

Nous proposons une première série de boutons et de bannières pour établir des liens vers KoffeePhoto. Tous les commentaires sont les bienvenus.

Bouton N°1 (250×250) :

Bannière N°1 (468×60) :

Two weeks after having introduced our KoffeePhoto Online Translation Interface, we are proud to announce two new locales added to KoffeePhoto, Simplified Chinese and Czech. Thanks to these additions, KoffeePhoto photo sharing gets one step closer to its users. No doubt more locales will be added soon.

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Photo sharing needs to be available everywhere. Since we started development, we wanted KoffeePhoto to break the boundaries and address the needs of photo sharing throughout the world. With this in mind we rapidly supported five locales, being English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

Time has now come for a further step. We therefore now launch our KoffeePhoto collaborative localization tool.

You want to have KoffeePhoto in Latvian or in Vietnamese? Whatever your language, your contribution is valuable for us. Please participate and log on at: http://translate.koffeephoto.com.

Thank you for your contribution.

Due to the recent release of KoffeePhoto 2.5 and the sudden increase of traffic (good news huh?), we’ve been experiencing high server load which has resulted in some service interruptions these two last days.

The problem is fixed now and all KoffeePhoto photo sharing services are back online. No other issue linked to this new release has been raised by now.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you for your support.

Long awaited KoffeePhoto photo sharing 2.5 launches today. This version is an important milestone in our product development plan as it includes a complete revision of our storage model as well as the tools provided for sharing slideshows.

• As mentionned in a previous post, our storage model does not rely exclusively on a peer-to-peer model anymore.
• Slideshows can now be viewed using a simple Flash based player. No more hassle dealing with our previously Java based player which caused some trouble installing.
• Full online photo prints ordering.

While the migration will take some time because of the file format conversion tasks, the everyday experience will be far better thanks to improved performances and less CPU and bandwidth usage.

We put all our efforts to include user feedback into this version of KoffeePhoto and are convinced to have come much closer to the needs of our users.

For its first year of operation, KoffeePhoto reaches today its first 10000 users…

Thank you to everyone who has trusted us and we look forward for new achievements.

No doubt that our coming version will help us moving on a faster pace.

If you are one of those not using Google at all, this information is not for you.

For all others, if you are getting bored with the simplistic interface, go for the iGoogle personalized home page and display your photo albums running My KoffeePhoto Frame.

While album RSS feeds previously allowed you to track changes on albums, My KoffeePhoto Frame allows you to display a reduced size slide-show of pictures randomly selected from your KoffeePhoto photo albums. Download and install the widget, enter your KoffeePhoto login information, specify which type of albums to display and off you go! Of course, at any time, you can access the album of the picture displayed by clicking on the picture.

My KoffeePhoto Frame gadget for iGoogle can be installed directly or from the iGoogle Modules Directory. For immediate start-up, a demo mode is included. To display your own pictures, you will need to run the KoffeePhoto desktop edition and create your own account.

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• KoffeePhoto photo widgets

Pursuing our goal of multiple localizations, we launch today our Japanese version of KoffeePhoto. This covers the web site, the KoffeePhoto photo sharing software and the KoffeePhoto Web Space. This new locale adds to the four previously existing locales (english, french, german and spanish). Obviously, more to come.

KoffeePhoto automatically runs in the language set by the operating system if available. If language is not available KoffeePhoto runs in English. If your browser is not set to japanese, please go to: KoffeePhoto - 無料フォト シェアリング ソフトウェア.

Last, while extensive rereading has been conducted, we’d appreciate your feedback. Please write to support@koffeephoto.com.