Did you know that KoffeePhoto features photo microblogging?

As we think that microblogging gives to photo sharing an extra dimension, photo microblogging features are associated to each photo stored (and shared) on KoffeePhoto. Just make sure comments are allowed on that given album (check the Album properties in the KoffeePhoto software) and off you go. Turn each photo into a community event!

Posted comments are displayed on the photo sharing web pages, on the software as well as on the Activity Summary.

As soon as I had heard about the Asus EEE PC in summer 2007, I said «Hey! I want one of those!». Half a year later, the most inexpensive ultramobile laptop ever is available in Europe… and soon in my hands! The first challenge was to install KoffeePhoto on it. In fact, you could not think of an easier challenge. Read on.

Installing KoffeePhoto on Asus EEE PC is incredibly straightforward: Open www.koffeephoto.com in FireFox, click on «KoffeePhoto free download» button… you’re almost done! FireFox is pre-configured to open the Java Web Start link with the included Java Runtime (Java version 5), just confirm that choice by clicking «OK». Then the Java security dialog pops up telling the software is signed by KoffeeWare… «OK» again and KoffeePhoto starts up. You can log in to your KoffeePhoto account or create one.

KoffeePhoto’s graphical user interface suffers a bit from the limited screen resolution of the Asus EEE PC. Almost every feature in the software will still be useable, but sometimes you will need to go fullscreen (hiding the system task bar) and some dialogs will look a bit broken. The good news is that we are working on it and plan to release an update addressing these issues, for a clean user experience on this low 800×480 resolution.

In the end, KoffeePhoto is still the easiest tool to manage, share and backup your photos from the Asus EEE PC. You can share hundreds of photos in seconds, benefit from seamless automatic synchronization with your other PC’s… and keep all your photos always with you even when no Internet connection is available.

Numerous questions came to us about compatibility between KoffeePhoto photo sharing and iPhone. In other words, as iPhone allows for web browsing, what about browsing your KoffeePhoto photo sharing account for your photos and your relatives’ shared photos?

Well, as iPhone displays standard web pages without alteration, the KoffeePhoto pages are displayed smoothly and iPhone’s zooming capabilities allow for proper displaying of the pictures. So, yes, add your KoffeePhoto private page to your bookmarks and start enjoying the KoffeePhoto photo sharing experience with iPhone.

Last but not the least, the nicest part of the story is that KoffeePhoto includes unlimited and free online storage of your photos, avoiding the need for a .Mac subscription.

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.

More:

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

Those of you who have created their photo sharing account since KoffeePhoto 2.5 already have received their first activity summary in their mailbox. Previous users will receive it soon. But what is this activity summary and why did we add this feature?
For obvious reasons, we do not want you to forget about your pictures. Therefore, the KoffeePhoto photo sharing activity summary regularly provides you with useful information about your photo sharing status, among others: your photo sharing fellows’ recent posts, comments added to your pictures and the backup level of your photos.

Getting into details, we wanted you to know about the latest pictures added by your photo sharing relatives. With this in mind, a section of the activity summary lists all recent photo albums added by people already sharing pictures with you. The more you share photos, the more people will share photos with you.

More, as KoffeePhoto features a mini blog associated to each photo, we wanted to make sure you get the latest comments done to your pictures. Therefore, all recent comments are listed allowing you to reply.

And, last but not the least, as good times are always good to remember, we’ve added a section with randomly chosen pictures from your library.

For all these reasons, we are pretty confident that this addition will provide you with a better photo sharing experience.

With time, new features will be added to the KoffeePhoto photo sharing activity summary.

Photo sharing is all around. But what makes KoffeePhoto different?

First, KoffeePhoto is not solely a photo sharing web site. KoffeePhoto includes a full featured photo management software program available on the Linux, MacOS and Windows platforms. This makes day-to-day photo management fast and easy and, last but not the least, allows for offline operation and photo viewing. Also included are various photo touch-up functions and a true and automatic photo album backup and restoration feature.

Once online, the KoffeePhoto software agent takes care of synchronizing offline and online content for online publishing and backup purposes.

Depending on each photo album specific settings, pictures can be shared online or not. If online sharing is allowed, the pictures can be viewed using classical web pages or full screen Flash based slideshows. Pictures can also be displayed using various methods thanks to RSS feeds and widgets. More, a micro-blog is attached to each photo allowing for commenting and chatting. Whatever the settings, private password protected viewing of the pictures is always allowed for the owner of the pictures.

Previously mentionned, the KoffeePhoto photo album backup and restoration feature relies on who has added your photo albums to his own photo library. In case of a failure, the KoffeePhoto software agent will automatically retrieve albums from your backup fellows.

All these features make KoffeePhoto quite a unique solution in the crowded photo sharing arena.

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.

• KoffeePhoto：免费无限图片共享
• KoffeePhoto: sdílení fotografií zdarma a bez omezení

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.