Ipernity
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| URL | http://www.ipernity.com/ |
| Commercial? | yes |
| Type of site | Sharing, Social networking |
| Available language(s) | Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Owner | ipernity |
| Created by | Christophe Ruelle |
| Launched | April 2007 |
| Current status | Active |
ipernity is a website proposing free services of multimedia sharing and social networking.
The site is targeted for both authors/artists and families/friends, and allows to publish and to share in a same space, any type of digital content such as blog, photos, videos, audios.
It's often compared to Flickr, with more features. [1][2][3]
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[edit] Basements
ipernity is a project founded in 2005 by :
- Christophe Ruelle, co-founder of Voila (a search engine bought by France Telecom in 1998) and eStat (a site-centric traffic measurement system)
- Christian Conti, co-founder of Respublica (a French-speaking online community, bought by Libertysurf/Tiscali in 2000)
The project aimed to allow:
- everyone
- with the help of information technologies and networks
- to build and to enhance, forever and in a same place
- its digital life.
ipernity was developed in Sophia Antipolis and required 2 years of programming and testing. On May 2006, an alpha release has been put online. ipernity has updated its service to a beta release in April 2007.
[edit] Targets and uses
ipernity is targeted to :
- authors/artists who want to promote their digital work to all the internet users,
- families/friends for a private use of their digital content.
Its blog is widely used by Esperanto-speakers community.[4][5]
It's particularly appreciated by photographers community [6]
ipernity is also a new home for flickr users after censorship controversy [7]
[edit] Functionality
ipernity allows to publish and share :
Content may be organize in multimedia albums.
Several upload methods are available. [8]
[edit] Tags and geotags
Authors and visitors may tag every content :
- Keywords
- Members tag : (who is concerned by this content ?)
- Geotags : (where does this content from ?)
These metadata make search easy and allow new functions such as world exploration of photos and videos (a mashup of Google Maps.
[edit] Protection of rights
ipernity includes Creative Commons licenses.
[edit] Social networking
ipernity allows interactivity between contents, authors and visitors. Feedback/comments system, contacts networks,
instant messenging, email facilitate social networking
[edit] Interoperability
All contents published on ipernity may be pushed to feed third-party services such as [RSS]/[Atom standard)|Atom] readers, personalized start pages (Netvibes, iGoogle...), ,social-bookmarking services like del.icio.us...
ipernity includes an API allowing third-parties to develop [[mashup]s, software and services interacting with its platform.
[edit] Technology
ipernity is mainly build with open source technology :
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ From Go2Web20.net: Flickr clone(?) with some Stronger Features!
- ^ From Photography Bay: 7 alternatives to flickr
- ^ From techiequest.com: ipernity - Flickr clone with more features
- ^ From Esperanto-USA magazine: ipernity
- ^ From klaku.net: ipernity hopes 2 million esperanto-speakers
- ^ From Photografr.com: ipernity groups
- ^ Ipernity yea, Flickr nay?
- ^ From Mashable.com: ipernity launches blog site with cool media upload tool
[edit] External links
- (English) www.ipernity.com
