September 14th, 2007
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.
September 8th, 2007
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.
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.
July 24th, 2007
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.
July 21st, 2007
KoffeePhoto 2.5 is close to be released. We’ve redefined a big part of how we deal with storing your pictures and displaying them.
Regarding the storage, we’ve limited peer-to-peer storage to people you share your pictures with. This allows us to remove the encryption process that slowed the process when adding new albums. This also provides you with a better level of confidence regarding of who has access to the pictures. We’ve also added more monitoring features allowing you to have a clear status information of how safe your pictures are. Last but not the least, this allows for reducing the number of nodes storing the pictures thus reducing the bandwidth usage involved.
Regarding the display, we’ve rewritten our previously Java based slide-show into a Flash based slide-show. Flash being present on almost every connected computer, this allows for far more simplicity and less hassle running the slide-show on any computer as Internet café’s connected computers.
And more obviously…
Generally speaking, we’ve kept our scope of functionality while improving the photo sharing user experience. Using KoffeePhoto, your pictures remain safe and sharing them will get even more straightforward.
KoffeePhoto 2.5 should be ready for release soon. More to come…
April 19th, 2007
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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April 4th, 2007
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.
April 3rd, 2007
Many of you have extended their use of blogs to adding photos. As you can not publish all your pictures in your blog, photoblogging forces you to make choices in the photos you publish.
Using KoffeePhoto as an image hosting service allows you to easily post pictures in your photoblog while linking back to your shared KoffeePhoto pages for browsing complete photo albums.
Once your albums posted, required HTML code is displayed on the upper right corner of the KoffeePhoto Web Space.
Whether you select the HTML code from the picture page or the album page, it will display the selected picture or a preview of the selected album such as below:
Pictures from Land of Fire
Pictures from “Tierra del Fuego”
URL is simply the URL of the picture or the album where Embed is a complete HTML code allowing you to embed a link to you picture or photo album.
March 28th, 2007
Look at your desktop. No, not on your computer screen, on your desk. Probably a lot of you will see a couple of frames with pictures of loved ones. You can now benefit from viewing shared pictures within My KoffeePhoto Frame on your Netvibes desktop.
If you run Netvibes, you can now display your pictures within the Netvibes personalized start page using the first edition of the 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.
My KoffeePhoto Frame widget for Netvibes can be installed directly or from the Netvibes Ecosystem. 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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March 21st, 2007
When we started development of KoffeePhoto photo sharing in early 2005, a mobile phone based client was already an obvious milestone on our product development roadmap. Today, we are proud to present a preview of future KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing.
We believe it is now the perfect time for such kind of applications as the combination of 3G/3G+ phones capable of high wireless data throughput and QVGA displays makes running photo sharing applications on mobile phones a reality.
KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing allows KoffeePhoto users to access and share photo albums on their mobile phone. Storage is free and unlimited thanks to KoffeePhoto’s unique private distributed storage technology. Photo albums are available anytime anywhere. Pictures can be viewed interactively or using full screen streamed slide-shows. The size of the screen is automatically detected in order to maximize the display and optimize the file download.
While the applet runs well with a GPRS/EDGE connection, a 3G(UMTS)/3G+(HSDPA) or WiFi connection is recommended for an optimal user experience.
The functions currently implemented allow you to browse your photo albums. Some more features will be available soon and can already be viewed in the menu entries.
Available as a J2ME application (a small Java mobile application), KoffeePhoto mobile can be easily installed on a wide variety of mobile phones and converging PDAs. It can be downloaded from: koffeephoto.com/mobile. A demo mode is included. To display your own pictures, you will need to run the KoffeePhoto desktop edition and create your account. KoffeePhoto mobile can also be tested on your computer using the mPowerPlayer phone emulator (follow this link).
No need to mention that your feedback is welcome. Please write to mobile@koffeephoto.com.
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March 18th, 2007
This new version includes a couple of fixes and optimizations. Nothing to write a long post about.
As usual, the software will update itself automatically. Nothing to do, nothing to worry about.
