Pikeo
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| Pikeo | |
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| URL | http://www.pikeo.com/ |
| Commercial? | No |
| Type of site | Photo sharing |
| Registration | free |
| Owner | Orange |
| Created by | Orange Labs |
| Launched | January 2007 |
| Current status | beta |
Pikeo is a photo sharing website and an online community platform. Registered users can share their photos with either the community of users or only their friends and family, and they can also add comments. Visitors will discover photos using a search engine or a map of the world with geotagged pictures, and by following a network of contacts, tags, and home pages
In addition to being a Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service can be used by bloggers as a photo repository.
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[edit] History
The Pikeo project began in 2004 in the Orange Labs in San Francisco, an R&D division of the France Telecom Group that concentrates on Web 2.0 community services. From June to December 2006, the project was developed at the Orange Technocentre for public launch. A beta version of Pikeo was officially launched on 5th December at an event held at Adobe in San Francisco
[edit] Features
- Photo import with mass processing and IPTC support
- Mobile upload
- 1 GB of free storage
- Taxonomy of photos with tags (key-words) based on a who-what-where structure
- Geographic localisation of photos (where-tags) on a dynamic map of the world
- Management of photo access rights Private, family, friends, friends and family, public
- Contacts management
- Comments
- Organisation of photos into albums and smart albums
- Slideshow
- Trip diary: Slideshow presenting photos according to where they were taken
- html links and URL access to homepage, photos, albums and to slideshows
- Access from a mobile phone by installing a Java, Symbian or Windows Mobile (ShoZu) application
The service is particularly geared towards travellers and young people who enjoy the mobile phone upload feature.
[edit] Technology
Pikeo was developed with Adobe Flex which is used to build Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that open in your web browser using Flash. This allows to enjoy both the wealth of visual animations (transitions, blurring) and the advanced functions often developed using AJAX. The mapping feature is provided by Microsoft Windows Live Maps. The mobile phone application is provided by ShoZu.
