expono

Official launch 2. of March

danckert — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:13:44 +0000

Thank you for all the positive feed back on the new pages. The official launch will be at the Photo Fair at Lillestrøm outside Oslo from the 2. to the 4. of March. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Best regards
The Expono Team

Expono Rising

paal — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:06:55 +0000

The “new” Expono will be launched shortly. You will see an enhanced design and new services.

We will create a magazine with exciting articles, tips on how to use all features in Expono and an active and social foto environment . New blogs and photo forum. Enjoy!

Best regards

The Expono team

Expono.com is unavailable due to Amazon outage.

Magnus — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:20:54 +0000

The largest outage in the history of cloud computing took place 21st of April in one of Amazon’s largest and most cutting edge data centers located in N. Virgina. Hundreds of sites depending on Amazons cloud services have been affected. Popular sites such as Four Square, Quora, Reddit, About.me, Netflix, Giantbomb, etc have been unavailable or experienced service degradation.

Expono is still severely affected by this outage due to our infrastructure being 100% cloud based. It is important to know that your photos and data are safe! Critical parts of our infrastructure remain inaccessible, which means Expono.com will remain “offline” until the situation is resolved at Amazon.

We are really sorry for the inconvenience and we are monitoring the situation regularly so we can restore the site as soon as things have stabilized at Amazon.

UPDATE: 2011-04-24 18:23
Amazon have restored most of its services, but some EBS data volumes remain stuck and inaccessible. We simply cannot open Expono until our master data volume is accessible and synchronized. New estimate is that we are back online tomorrow. We know this is unacceptable, but we really cannot do anything until Amazon have restored full access to our volumes.

UPDATE: 2011-04-24 23:45
Expono.com is unavailable (503) while we are trying get back online. This might take a while (a couple of hours). Basically because, our actions are queued and that we prioritize data integrity.

UPDATE: 2011-04-25 03:28
Expono.com is back online. We’re really sorry about the downtime. We decided to take the slow route to recovery to make sure your photos and data were safe. We’re awaiting Amazon’s full report on what exactly happened to let you know how we can prevent events like this in the future.

Check our twitter feed for the latest updates.

Sites affected by the Amazon outage: http://ec2disabled.com/

Upcoming Changes to Twitter and Facebook

Magnus — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:19:32 +0000

A couple of weeks ago both Facebook and Twitter held their respective developer conferences announcing new features, services and changes to their platforms. This post is about how those changes will affect you and Expono. Hint: It’s all for the better.

Twitter Changes

Twitter is going to drop support for third-party services accessing your account using only username and password. Third-party services will be forced to use OAuth to authenticate themselves, this is a good thing as it provides much better security for your Twitter account in regards to third-party services accessing it. Expono already today support both types of authentication. However, everyone who uses Twitter username and password on Expono today need to change to use OAuth instead. We will remove support for username/password authentication in the next update, planned May 30th. Twitter will remove this support for all third-party services on June 30th.

Facebook Changes

Facebook announced a complete new API based on the Open Graph protocol with lots of good news that will affect all users on Expono to the better. We are going to rewrite Expono’s Facebook integration to support these new cool features. Support for the new API will be rolled out in two separate updates where the goal of the first one is to make sure the current integration works seamlessly when Facebook shutdown their old API on June 1st. The second update will expand Expono’s Facebook support and bring the experience much closer to what we have envisioned which is a much tighter integration between photos on Facebook and Expono, and hopefully we can achieve true portable privacy between the systems. If you experience any oddities after June 1st, please, let us know.

UPDATE (2010-05-27)
Facebook won’t be able to meet the June 1st deadline. The new roll out date for the new data permissions feature will be June 30th. A link to Facebook’s announcement can be found here.

Photo Highlights – Week 18

Magnus — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:29:04 +0000

Please, help me find this week’s most interesting, beautiful, funny or artistic photos on Expono. Send your tips to Magnus and don’t forget to favorite, rate, or comment the photos you enjoy as I believe feedback is truly appreciated.

Photo Highlights – Week 17

Magnus — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:09:28 +0000

Photo Highlights – Week 16

Magnus — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:29:14 +0000

This week’s highlights are the direct opposite of previous week… a real color boost!

Photo Highlights – Week 15

Magnus — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:58:42 +0000

Last week’s photo highlights are dark, gritty and atmospheric photos only to be “lit up” by a caricature by Magdiel Rivero. Help me find this week’s most interesting, beautiful, funny or artistic photos on Expono. Send your tips to Magnus and don’t forget to favorite, rate, or comment the photos you enjoy as I believe feedback is truly appreciated.

How does “views” work?
I’ve gotten quite a few questions about how views are calculated. The short answer: Views are unique. Bound to session id or user id. It’s not like Youtube where a “view” equals a page refresh and can be gamed. A “view” is also only counted for images viewed in medium size or larger. Views of thumbnails and small size of images are not counted.

Photo Highlights – Week 14

Magnus — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:36:00 +0000

Here are some of the photos from the global pool of favorites from last week. Help me find the most interesting, beautiful, funny or artistic photos on Expono. Send your tips to Magnus and don’t forget to favorite, rate, or comment the photos you enjoy as I believe feedback is truly appreciated.

Happy shooting!

Expono Photos in Your WordPress Blog

Magnus — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:14:04 +0000

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about how you can use Google’s Ajax Feed API to create a slide show showing photos from Expono. Creative coder Martin Jonsson took that idea further and created a WordPress Plugin for it, making it extremely simple to post photos from Expono or any other Media RSS enabled site.

Here is an example displaying my favorites on Expono

Loading...

After you have installed the plugin you only have to type the following shortcode to include a slideshow in your blog. The plugin offers a lot of parameters and options. I suggest you head over to martinj.net for the most recent documentation about how to use the plugin.

Example: How to display the latest public photos uploaded to Expono.

[mj-google-slideshow feed_url="http://www.expono.com/rss" width="500" height="332" link_target="google.feeds.LINK_TARGET_SELF" /]

Example: How to display your recent photos
[mj-google-slideshow feed_url="http://www.expono.com/magnus/rss" width="500" height="332" link_target="google.feeds.LINK_TARGET_SELF" /]
Replace my username with your username

Example: How to display your favorite photos
[mj-google-slideshow feed_url="http://www.expono.com/magnus/rss/1/in/favorites?indirect_stream_owner_id=100001&sort_by=favorited&sort_order=DESC" width="500" height="332" link_target="google.feeds.LINK_TARGET_SELF" /]
I suggest you copy the link behind your RSS icon on your favorites page to get the correct URL. If you want to do it manually you have to replace my username and user_id with your own.

Ok.. that’s it.. have a great weekend!