Planned Maintenace Day
We would also like to announce that our official maintenance day is every first Tuesday in the month between 01:00am-03:00am CEST. During this time, Expono.com, may become unavailable depending on the type of maintenance.

2010-03-10 (v0.9.3-4507)

New Features:

• Danish translation added (100%) Thanks to Nanker and marte_ms.
• Irish translation added (70% done). Thanks to Seanan.
• Dutch translation added (70% done). Thanks to Yentl, Biite, and Heureka.
• Software page added.
• Downloader 1.0 released!

Enhancements:

• Improved the Swedish translation.
• Added three additional thumbnail sizes to the Media RSS Feed

Bugfixes:

• Fixed the issue where untagging oneself removed the option of retagging oneself
• Fixed design/layout issues in the “Detailed” layout
• Fixed several HTML bugs

Known Issues
We experienced some problems with Internet Explorer and SSL after the update. If you see anything abnormal, please let us so know.

ChangeLog Expono v0.9.3-4450

New Features:

• Swedish translation added. Thanks to 3rd!
• Traditional Chinese translation added. Thanks to Dashuai and Jingjing!
• Improved statistics collection. Photo views now stores referal links and sites linking in.
• Background Task Handler. Important groundwork for features to come. Starting with service sync.

Enhancements:

• Album Edit Menu is now visible under ALL layouts.
• Album privacy moved to the edit menu and visible under ALL layouts.
• Unified the UI in Settings, Profile, Services for consistency.
• Added background processing of contact updates. Can now handle updates of thousands. Speedier response.
• Photo title in the detailed view is now easier to read.
• Re-added features on frontpage to improve SEO.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed IE UI Bugs. Missing buttons in the tab menu.
• Fixed comments notifications. It now works as intended.
• Fixed so Add To Stack works in all available layouts.
• Fixed so Slideshow works in all available layouts.
• Fixed so “My Comments” displays all your comments.
• Fixed bugs with contacts updates from third-party services.
• Removed AddThis share button. It confuses users, and can cause buggy behaviour. Use
  standard share instead.

Why did it take so long for you to release an update?

Well, 2.5 months is not THAT long, but it’s longer than we want it to be. We did some heavy architectural changes, which will improve things for us in the future. However, we are going to aim at pushing a new release monthly. We are also going to “Open Up” the development process much more than before. So you know what’s coming and have the power to influence priorities. More about that in a separate blog post.

Why did this “maintenace” take several hours?

This was not only a software update, but we hade a complete server overhaul. New servers, with new updated operating system and software. New environments, updated configurations. Added support for SSL certificates (Finally!). We ran some heavy database upgrade scripts. The database upgrade itself took 2 hours. Converting million of activities. We did prepare and test a lot of stuff on our test environment, but some things just had to be tested on the production environment.

So what’s new?

We now have over 500,000 identities in the database. Identities? That’s people who have access to view custom privacy photos. People who are friends, family or colleagues to our users. These people can now comment, rate, and favorite photos without having to signup. That means, that we have converted all comments, ratings, and favorites to use identities instead of users_ids. The same way that Photo Privacy (ACL) works today. There is a lot of technical mumbo jumbo behind this, but what it really means is that Expono gets much better for you as a user. When you share and albums or photos to friends, you want them to have to possiblity comment without having them to commit to something like signing up etc. Removing these obstacles and annoying things will make the service much better. Also, the work around identities opens up for some really nice things to come, such as custom privacy sharing to Facebook and Twitter. When do you plan to fix that? It’s already in progress.

Translation & Localization

Thanks a lot to all our translators who does an excellent job at making sure the translations are up to date. The latest language to be production “complete” is Simplified Chinese. Thanks to Hong Shen!

ChangeLog Expono v0.9.2-4364

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed buggy uploader for certain translations
• Fixed missing width and height in new templates
• Fixed photos taken date earlier then 1970 makes photo inaccessible.
• Can’t edit titles in “detailed” mode if no title already exists. Now fixed.
• Fixed Share to Facebook “small whitebox with close button” issue
• And lots more…

Improved Features:

• New Footer. Easier to find pages.
• Translation page and guidelines improved. Translator credits! Thank you everyone!
• Album Title is bigger and have better contrast. No breadcrumb.
• Shared albums and photos improved. Better views. Signup to comments etc no longer required.

New Features:

• Single Sign-On from Facebook, Google, Windows Live ID, Twitter, Flickr
• Comments doesn’t require signup. Comments support identities.
• Favorites doesn’t require signup. Favorites support identities.
• Ratings doesn’t require signup. Ratings support identities.
• Identities (viewers / non-registered expono users) have their own activities and profiles.
• New Language: Simplified Chinese! Thanks to Hong Shen!
• The Wall. Simply a wall of square images for you to explore.
• Twitter OAuth support implemented.
• Gravatar images automatically fetched during signup.
• You can now have your Friendfeed feed on your user page
• Explore public activities such as photos, albums, people, comments, tags

Expono API Updates:

• expono.photosets.create: If no privacy parameter was supplied we used the user default album privacy, but it will from now on be private. We will introduce a new parameter in future update for this e .g “use_default” that will be used for uploads aswell.
• Fixed error that wouldn’t validate OAuth requests that used Authorization header for oauth parameters.
• oauth_callback to custom URL schemes will now work, useful for e.g iPhone Apps.
• JSON format added as optional response format.
• Empty fields e.g description wont return a whitespace character anymore
• expono.photos.getInfo, comment count is now shown even if count is 0
• expono.people.getUploadStatus, no more negative values for storage/bandwith remaining (999999999 is used for people with unlimited)
• More info about the JSON format can be found here

Ok, so what has been going on? We have been building some great stuff! Here are some highlights:

• 700M+ people around the globe can log right in. No signup necessary. We support Google Account, Windows Live ID, Facebook, Twitter among others.
• Improved Sharing (we are not done here, but it’s still an improvement). People you share to can browse around better, download photos, and most importantly they can comment, rate, and favorite photos without having to signup at all!
• Open Profiles. Everyone has a profile (not only users), featuring comments, favorites, photos of…
• Twitter OAuth Support. We talked about it. Now it’s implemented.
• New language: Simplified Chinese
• Slightly improved user profile pages.
• API Updates. Please, check the dev pages.
• Security improvements.
• General tweaks here and there (better album titles)
• Bugfixes (date bug fixed)

Stay put for a more detailed blog post about what this “under the hood” update means for the future.

The Update / Server Downtime

We are going to have a rather big update on Tuesday. It’s been a while since last time. Last update was in mid September. This update requires server re-configuration which means that Expono will be down for a short period of time on Tuesday, login will also be disabled for a couple of hours while we run a few tests. We are truly sorry for any inconvenience this may cause for you.

“Thanksgiving Sale” 40% Discount on Expono PLUS Accounts. Ends in less than 24 Hours!
We want to remind you that today is the last day you can purchase an Expono PLUS account with a 40% discount.

We are a company who believe in users’ rights to their own content. We believe we have a great service where our primary mission is to give as much power to the user as possible. We are competing with other services on features, but more importantly on our users’ rights to their own data, privacy, data portability and censorship (we don’t censor stuff like flickr). That is all good you say, but what about storage?

Today we are making Expono even better by introducing Unlimited Storage for all our Expono Plus users. Click here to learn more about Expono Plus.

This change is retroactive which means that our existing Expono Plus users will automatically be upgraded to unlimited storage. Expono Plus users who have purchased extra storage will have their account upgraded to unlimited bandwidth and their subscription extended to match the amount paid.

Online Image Editor

Edit your photos online

We also added support for one of the best online image editors available! Thanks to Pixlr, you now have a tool which is as close to Photoshop online as you can get, seamlessly integrated with Expono.

Bigger Photos

Multiple layouts for your enjoyment

Talking about BIGGER photos – we have introduced support for multiple layouts on photos and album browsing. We have added a couple on this release and more layouts will be released in future updates. We hope you will enjoy them.

Activity Feed Revamp

Improved layout on recent activities

We have also improved the visualization of recent activities on your userpage. Including filtering options so you can distinguish on album activities, comments or newly uploaded photos. Not only that, we have also increased the photo sizes so you can enjoy them even more! We also changed your dashboard and introduced recent friend activities with even more filtering options. You can even drill it down to groups and if you wish, see all recent uploaded photos by only your family or your poker buddies – as long as you fall into their privacy settings that is…

Improved GEO Tagging

We have enhanced Geo-tagging of photos, including the option of custom naming locations and we have also added drag-pin support. So now you can really pinpoint exactly where you took that beautiful photo near your summerhouse.

Other important fixes:

• Default colorspace for thumbnails changed to sRGB
• PNG thumbnails filesize bug fixed.
• Correct language is now supported on mail and notifications
• Fixed rare bug on missing tags and wrong tag proportions in your tag cloud
• External contacts from Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed are periodically synchronized so your addressbook stays fresh!

Oh! We have also added Norwegian (nynorsk) translation. Thanks to Bjørn Svindseth for all the help! We hope to have more and better translations soon…

That’s all for now folks! Stay tuned for more!

For more on the account options and features, see http://www.expono.com/go/learn_more

Spanish translation of Expono

Want expono in YOUR language? You can help us and yourself out by joining our Translation Team! Sharing is our mantra and that’s why we like to thank the team for collaborating and helping us reach out to so many all over the world. It is the likes of you that makes the internet a great place!

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

• Spanish: Edgar Alberto Urias, Pablo Lara, Alcubilla de Nogales, Carlos Cabanillas, Carlos Barbudo, Diego Romero Lopez, Juani Paccapelo
• Danish: Marte Muan Sæther
• Simplified Chinese: Hong Shen, Mole Zhang
• Traditional Chinese: Tino Chang
• French: Grosquick, Mathieu Pasquet, Pierre Slamich, Clement Grimal, Niicolas.com,
• Russian: Nick Gorbunov, Egor Bushemlyov
• Czech: Martin Jurica
• Italian: Thomas Bellotti
• Turkish: Zeugma
• Hebrew: Moshe

Here is the list of the top contributers: https://launchpad.net/expono/+topcontributors

Wanna join the team?

Qué es Expono?

You will have access to the latest features before anyone else and a Plus account free of charge!
http://www.expono.com/go/contact

Translations guidelines:
http://www.expono.com/go/translation

After your accounts have been connected, you will be able to tag your Facebook friends on your photos like any other contacts you already have in your address book. With your Facebook friends now on Expono, you can add them to your contact groups, give them access to the photos you want them to see and tag them on your photos.

Expono photo activities on Facebook

Sharing with your audience
Sharing is a big part of our lifes, and now it is even easier to share your photos and albums with the people you know. By connecting your Facebook account with Expono you can post stories to your wall when you favorite a photo, comment or tag a Facebook friend on Expono! Giving them access to view your full quality photos with just 1 click. You can also share individual albums and photos to Facebook right from the Share menu. This way you get more out of both services!

Sharing an album to Facebook

Start sharing now with the link below:
http://www.expono.com/go/features/facebook

Become a fan of Expono on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=82608916654

Sharing on Expono

We have extended the integration with FriendFeed and Twitter on Expono to allow for more interaction and fun between the users of these services. Earlier we had automatic photo uploads announcements to Friendfeed and Twitter everytime you uploaded new photos to Expono. The functionality allowed our users to inform their followers and subscribers about newly uploaded photos in a innovative way. Now we have extended that to include direct sharing of public album and photos. Right from the Share menu. Giving your subscribers and followers access to view your full quality photos with just 1 click.

Album shared on FriendFeed

Face tagging
We also made it fun to tag your FriendFeed and Twitter friends on your photos. Just connect your Expono account with FriendFeed or Twitter and you will be able to tag your friends on your photos, add them to your contact groups and give them access to the photos you want them to see. Like any other contacts you already have in your address book!

Face tagging of Twitter friends

Get started now by connecting your accounts on Expono:
FriendFeed
http://www.expono.com/go/features/friendfeed

Twitter
http://www.expono.com/go/features/twitter

Subscribe to Expono on Friendfeed:
http://friendfeed.com/expono

Follow Expono on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/expono

	Plus	Basic
Storage Space	10 GB or more	1 GB
Monthly Data Transfer	100 GB	10 GB
Custom Groups	10	1
Advanced Privacy Controls
GPS / Google Maps Location Tagging
People Tagging & Contacts Management
Stacks Plus (1000 photos)
Control Who Can Download Original Photos
Premium Support
Guaranteed Ad-Free
High Resolution Photo Feeds*
Expono Downloader App*
Detailed View Count & Statistics*
List More Features

Features marked with an asterisk (*) are currently in development with a planned release in Q3 2009.

Get up to 30% discount today…
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http://www.expono.com/go/accounts

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