Ipernity
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ipernity is a Web site offering free services of multimedia
sharing
and social networking. It also has services for which you must pay, i.e., their service Pro.
The site is designed for both authors/artists and families/friends, and allows publishing and sharing in the same space of various types of digital content such as: blogs, photos, videos and audio files.
ipernity is often compared to another photo sharing Web site - Flickr
, but with more features.
ipernity won the 2nd Open Web Awards in Photo Sharing category in December 2008.
The project has been created with the help of information technology to allow anyone to maintain their digital life permanently in one place.
ipernity was developed in Sophia Antipolis
and required 2 years of programming and testing. On May 2006, an alpha version of the site went online. ipernity was updated to a beta release in April 2007.
ipernity blog is widely used by the Esperanto
-speaking community.
It is particularly appreciated by the photographic community.
ipernity has also become a new place for a group of Flickr
users who left it after the censorship controversy, although it has, in the meantime, developed the same kind of problems.
ipernity receives an average of 95,000 visitors per day.
Content may be organized in multimedia
albums.
Several upload methods are available.
every content :
These metadata
make searching easy and allow new functions such as geographical searches for photos and videos (a mashup
of Google Maps
).
between content, authors and visitors. Feedback/comments system, contacts networks, instant messenging, email
facilitate social networking.
/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. On October 10, 2008 the API was released to the public.
and open source software technology:
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
sharing
Photo sharing
Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others . This function is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images...
and social networking. It also has services for which you must pay, i.e., their service Pro.
The site is designed for both authors/artists and families/friends, and allows publishing and sharing in the same space of various types of digital content such as: blogs, photos, videos and audio files.
ipernity is often compared to another photo sharing Web site - Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
, but with more features.
ipernity won the 2nd Open Web Awards in Photo Sharing category in December 2008.
Foundations
ipernity is a project established in 2005 by two French programmers:- Christophe Ruelle, co-founder of Voila (a search engine bought by France TelecomFrance TélécomFrance Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
in 1998) and eStat (a site-centric traffic measurement system) - Christian Conti, co-founder of Respublica (a French-speaking online communityOnline communityAn online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted...
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in 2000)
The project has been created with the help of information technology to allow anyone to maintain their digital life permanently in one place.
ipernity was developed in Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970-84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. Several institutions of higher...
and required 2 years of programming and testing. On May 2006, an alpha version of the site went online. ipernity was updated to a beta release in April 2007.
Audience
ipernity is designed for:- authors/artists wanting to promote their digital work to all users of the internet
- families/friends for private use of their digital content
ipernity blog is widely used by the Esperanto
Esperanto
is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
-speaking community.
It is particularly appreciated by the photographic community.
ipernity has also become a new place for a group of Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
users who left it after the censorship controversy, although it has, in the meantime, developed the same kind of problems.
ipernity receives an average of 95,000 visitors per day.
Functionality
ipernity allows the publishing and sharing of :- Blogging,
- Photos,
- VideosMotion graphicsMotion graphics are graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects. Motion graphics are usually displayed via electronic media technology, but may be displayed via...
, - Audios,
- and all other types of digitalDigitalA digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
content.
Content may be organized in multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
albums.
Several upload methods are available.
Tags and geotags
Authors and visitors may tagTag (metadata)
In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...
every content :
- KeywordsKeyword (Internet search)An index term, subject term, subject heading, or descriptor, in information retrieval, is a term that captures the essence of the topic of a document. Index terms make up a controlled vocabulary for use in bibliographic records. They are an integral part of bibliographic control, which is the...
- Members tagTag (metadata)In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...
: (people interested in the content) - Geotags : (the site the content is from)
These metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
make searching easy and allow new functions such as geographical searches for photos and videos (a mashup
Mashup (digital)
A digital mashup usually is in reference to:1. Digital media content containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work...
of Google Maps
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free , that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API...
).
Social networking
ipernity allows interactivityInteractivity
In the fields of information science, communication, and industrial design, there is debate over the meaning of interactivity. In the "contingency view" of interactivity, there are three levels:...
between content, authors and visitors. Feedback/comments system, contacts networks, instant messenging, email
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
facilitate social networking.
Interoperability
All contents published on ipernity may be pushed to feed third-party services such as RSSRSS
-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...
/Atom
Atom (standard)
The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a...
readers, personalized start pages (Netvibes
Netvibes
Netvibes is a personalized dashboard publishing platform for the Web including digital life management, widget distribution services and brand observation rooms.-History:The company was founded by Tariq Krim and Florent Frémont in 2005.-Technology:...
, iGoogle
IGoogle
iGoogle , a service of Google, is a customizable Ajax-based startpage or personal web portal . Google originally launched the service in May 2005...
...), ,social-bookmarking services like del.icio.us
Del.icio.us
Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, and by the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs...
...
ipernity includes an API
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
allowing third-parties to develop mashup
Mashup (digital)
A digital mashup usually is in reference to:1. Digital media content containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work...
s, software and services interacting with its platform. On October 10, 2008 the API was released to the public.
Technology
ipernity has been built chiefly with freeFree software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
and open source software technology:
- PHPPHPPHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
- PerlPerlPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
- AJAXAjax (programming)Ajax is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications...
- MySQLMySQLMySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...