Apr 04

Save 20% during the Easter Weekend

By Magnus Announcements View Comments

We hope you’ve had a great Easter Weekend so far and are ready for some good news!

We are introducing Expono PLUS gift codes which let you purchase upgrades to yourself or a friend. We even got volume discounts.

To celebrate this we’re offering up to 40% discount on products! Just enter coupon code HAPPYEASTER2010 in the Expono Store to receive 20% off the complete order.

If you have a subscription today and purchase a 1-year subscription you won’t loose your remaining time. You will extended your subscription by another year. If you got 6 months remaining and purchase another 12 months. You will get 18 months remaining.

The best thing is that you can finally purchase an upgrade to a friend or a family member. All purchases results in a receipt with a unique serial number which can be redeemed by anyone who got an account here.

You can save up to 40%
If you decide to purchase a 3-year subscription which is already at 20% discount with the HAPPYEASTER2010 discount code, you will save 40%! It’s a super deal!

Happy Easter!

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Mar 25

Animoto Video & Expono Aperture Plugin

By Magnus Development, Release Notes View Comments

Animoto Video
Now you can create Animoto Videos from your albums on Expono. It’s both fun and easy!

If you have never tried Animoto before I urge you to check it out. It’s very simple and takes nearly no effort to create a video. The following test video was created in less than a minute.



Expono Aperture Plugin

Finally! Thanks to the effort by Martin Jonsson, you can now export photos from within Apple Aperture to Expono. I know many of you have asked for an Aperture Plugin and now it’s here. Martin has been kind to provide this for FREE. Download the Expono Aperture Plugin or check out the software page for more Expono plugins.

Linking or embedding a photo
It’s easy to link and embed a photo on your blog, forum or other sites. Just look for a link with the “Link to this photo” on your photo page.

Release Notes 2010-03-25 (v0.9.4-4xxx)

New Features:

  • Expono Gift Codes. It’s now possible to redeem Expono Gift Codes.
  • Added support to create Animoto slideshow/music videos from your photos. Check out the “Create Video” link on your albums.
  • Added Aperture Plugin to the software page.

Enhancements:

  • Improved embed code on the photo page. Added multiple sizes.
  • Info about the iPhoto and Aperture plugin is now displayed on the uploader page during upload.
  • Improved system announcements.

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed character encoding issues with IPTC keywords/caption parsing for images uploaded via the API.
  • Fixed photos appearing in random order when uploaded to an existing album via the API.
  • Fixed proper support for new lines in the photo description.
  • Fixed displayed bug in firefox on the photo page.
  • Fixed an issue where description wasn’t displayed correctly in detailed album view.
  • Fixed an issue where deleting photos doesnt update page in a single photo album.
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Mar 12

Update #22 – Added Irish, Danish and Dutch!

By Magnus Development, Release Notes View Comments

To keep you informed and up-to-date with new features, enhancements and bug fixes, we have decided to post all release notes for ALL our updates, including minor releases, on the blog in the future.

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.

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Mar 05

Expono Downloader 1.0 – released!

By Magnus Announcements View Comments

The Expono Downloader for Windows, Mac and Linux v1.0 is here!

Expono Downloader is simple application that let’s you download all your photos with one click, or select photos from a specific album to download. Auto-organize your photos in folders based on the album structure on expono. Cancels download without corrupting files. Choose to save the files in the Original Filename or the Expono Filename (global unique).

The purpose of this app is to make it easy to restore lost photos, or just retrieve all your originals from Expono. Future releases might include more advanced features such as, the ability to download meta data (comments, tags etc) related to a photo. Or, even download photos from friends accounts. But for now, it’s a “insurance” app for our users to easily restore the content they upload. Using Expono as an online backup now makes more sense with this application available.

System Requirements:

Windows
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

Mac OS X
Power PC / Intel Macs
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Linux
x86-based Linux dists with GTK+ 2.8 (or higher)
glibc-2.4
CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System)
libstdc++.so.6

Who can run this app?
Currently, everyone with a PLUS account can use this application.

Download Links
Expono Downloader for Windows v1.0

Expono Downloader for Linux v1.0

Expono Downloader for Mac OS X v1.0

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Jan 29

Google AJAX Feed API and Expono

By Magnus Using Expono View Comments


Google has some really great tools and one of them is the Google AJAX Feed API. With just a few lines of javascript code you can mash up feeds. Here is an example of how you can smack together a really cool javascript slideshow from an Expono feed with just a few lines of code. Basically you only have to change the feed and the options variables in the code below.

Google AJAX Feed API slideshow using Expono’s Media RSS Feeds

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The Source Code for the above Slideshow


<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/gfslideshow.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<style>
#slideShow {
  width : 500px;
  height : 375px;
  padding : 10px;
  font-size:16px;
  text-align:center;
}
</style>

<div id="slideShow">Loading...</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  function LoadSlideShow() {
    var feed  = "http://www.expono.com/magnus/album/4743/rss";
    var options = {
    	displayTime:2000,
    	transistionTime:600,
    	scaleImages:true,
    	fullControlPanel : true,
    	fullControlPanelSmallIcons : true,
    	pauseOnHover : false
   	};
    var ss = new GFslideShow(feed, "slideShow", options);
  }
  /**
   * Use google.load() to load the AJAX Feeds API
   * Use google.setOnLoadCallback() to call LoadSlideShow once the page loads
   */
  google.load("feeds", "1");
  google.setOnLoadCallback(LoadSlideShow);
</script>



Click here to read more about Google Ajax Feed API

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Jan 15

How to change license on multiple photos at once on Expono

By Magnus Tutorials, Using Expono View Comments

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Jan 14

New Languages added Swedish and Traditional Chinese!

By Magnus Release Notes View Comments

We are starting off the year by adding two new languages to Expono: Swedish and Traditional Chinese. This update includes two important ground work features, such as the background task handler and improved statistics collection.

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.
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Dec 30

How you can split an old album into two new albums

By Magnus Tutorials, Using Expono View Comments

A mini tutorial on how you can split an old album into two new albums on expono.com

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Dec 02

December Update. What's new?

By Magnus Announcements, Release Notes View Comments

Most of the update is done. We still have some issues that have to be resolved in order for us to release all goodies. What goodies? One of them is better facebook integration, the other is an Expono Downloader application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. We aim to release it as beta tomorrow on getsatisfaction. If all goes well, it will be released as non-beta within a week.

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
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Nov 30

News from the Cave: Update on Tuesday!

By Magnus Announcements, Release Notes View Comments

The last two months we have been hiding in a cave that we call “The Dev Cave”. This cave cuts off all external communication. We have to physically go outside to answer support requests, write blog posts etc. That is why it has been rather quiet on the blog. Some of you have probably seen an update or two on Twitter, but even more so on Getsatisfaction, our support home, where we try to be quite active.

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.

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