Mar 04

Recent updates on expono.com

By Magnus Development, Release Notes View Comments

Update #11 (2009-03-03)

Useful updates and bug-fixes contain static URL for embedded albums. Which we recommend everybody to update in their albums.

You’ll be happy to know that the character encoding is fixed, so that e-mail subjects now appear correctly.

The system now ignores people without valid e-mail addresses, so photos and albums are not shared to anyone without an e-mail address.


- Static URL fixed for embed-able albums. Please, update your album embed code!
- Fixed character encoding issues in email subjects.
- Shared Items are no longer created for people without a valid email address.
- Layout fixes on share header for Internet Explorer users.
- Settings privacy fixed between new users and users who invited them.
- Fixes issues with email being exposed to followers.
- Changing your primary email now only send alerts to mutual connections (no followers).
- Error while trying to create groups in "Add To Group" dialog has been fixed.
- Photo owners not being able to delete comments from other users. Fixed.
- Sorting by Photo Taken in the Album Editor has been fixed.
- Photo Activities are now forwarded to email by default.
- Announcements are now forwarded to email by default.

Update #10 (2009-02-06)

Updates and bug-fixes help expono products and services grow better, and a continuos feedback from our users is essential to make sure we keep the highest standards and cater to the needs of our users. Please make sure to use the feedback system, which black TAB, you can see on the right side of every expono.com page.

One thing is to send out invitations to friends and family and have them enjoy your photo albums safely here at expono.com, another and sometimes more useful ability is to publish your photos and albums in a blog or a web site where you already have followers and readers.

The new embed-able album code, found in your public album pages, enables your followers to see your albums and to start slideshows from within your blog or web site.

Find what you are looking for. Now searching public photos, photos of you, your own photos, albums, and favorites can now all be searched for in one unified search field.

A great new feature is the ability to show in a map where every one of your photos are geographically shot. Expono can make use of the GPS location stored in the photo’s EXIF data, if available, and expono also enables users to enter places manually.

If you have different groups of people who should see different albums, this is made easier for you to manage. In the address book, a groups tab is now placed on the left of your contacts. Click a group to see members or add a new group.

- New Feedback system. Join us at GetSatisfaction.com to make Expono a better place for you photos.
- Embeddable Album Photo Slide
- Simplified Uploader. Upload directly to albums
- Unified Search. You can now search your photos, album, favorites, photos of you, and all public photos on Expono.
- Unified Menu and Terminology.
- Introduces Places. A world map where you and your friens can browse photos based on location.
- Improved Create Album. Simplified UI.
- You can now create new groups directly from the sidebar in the addressbook

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Oct 24

An update on updates

By Magnus Development View Comments

Hi

It’s been a little bit quiet on the blog the last couple of weeks, and that is because we have been cranking code and working long hours to fix bugs, and features requested by you :)

We are doing an additional update on the site today (which totals over 50 bugfixes since Update #3). We wanted to make sure stuff are stable before we dive into the massive rewrite of our current privacy settings and finish the work on sharing and invites. The new privacy give the you flexibility to have a much more detailed control over who have access to see your photos. We are introducing custom groups, passwords and time limited urls on both album level and individual photo level.

I would like to give you a summary of what has been done in the last 3 updates during the last 4 weeks since we launched our closed private beta:

Update #3 – Smarter Batch Editing and Rotation is here!
2008-10-14 (v0.8.4-2102)

- Manual Rotation is now available under the “More Option” menu on your photo pages
- Greater control in “Edit Photos”. You can now explicit select/deselect the photos you want edit.
- Recent photos tagged of you is now displayed on the dashboard in addition to new photos uploaded by your friends
- Restore Thumbnails. If you have broken photos today you can use this function to restore all thumbnails so they match your original uploaded photo.
- Now you can view all comments made on your photos in the album page!
- Delete or Edit contacts from the Address Book
- Album Search. It is now possible to search through your albums using titles, description or year.
- You now have the choice to apply index numbers to titles when changing the title on multiple photos.
- Improvements to all RSS feeds. You can now choose between 3 types of RSS.

  1. New photos by Expono Users
  2. New photos by A User
  3. Photos in a specific album

- You can now delete, or mark as read, multiple messages at once from your Inbox
- New filter in the photos tab to list photos not in an album
- Lightview (in fullscreen album view) now displays all photos in the album, not only the photos per page.
- Photo description is now available in the slideshow (lightview).
- Popular tags now lists up to 1000 tags!
- It’s now possible to add up to 100 photos with a specific tag to your stack
- You can now add a contact to your address book by clicking on “Add as new” when tagging, if he/she doesn’t show in the autocompleter
- You can now search photos in “Create Album”. – And a bunch of minor bugfixes and enhancements

Update #2 – New Feedback System and lots more
2008-10-03 (v0.8.2-2000)

- New Photos on the dashboard. A much better way to see new photos uploaded by your connections.
- Friends of friends is now conveniently listed on the dashboard, maybe you will find people you know but is not connected with?
- Old feedback system has been replaced by a much better and easier system. Try it!
- Writing a comment on another user’s photo notifies everyone who has commented on the photo before you. This way everybody can join the conversation!
- Now you can change your contacts name and email in your Address Book.
- You can now create an album directly from the photos in a stack
- “Changed Password” has moved from “Your Account” to “Your Profile”
- When you send a connection request to a friend, he/she is automatically added to your Address Book, so now you can start tagging your friends on your photos right away.
- Safari fixes in the album creator. Sorting now works for Safari users.
- Sort order of photos in “Edit Photos” has been fixed.
- It’s now possible to location tag a whole stack of photos without overwriting existing locations, but only photos without one.
- Uploaded photos with GPS data where location lookups fails against geonames are still location tagged, but with coordinates instead of a know location.
- Links/URL are now made clickable in messages
- The RSS feeds now provides photos with a higher resolution
- It’s now possible to list more than 25 connections
- Optimizations to the search indexing
- It’s now possible to browse photos of a tagged person
- Dashboard’s “Let’s get it started” links which has been done are automatically removed next time you login.
- Double clicking a photo in the album creator now set it as cover photo for the album
- Invited users are no longer automatically connected with the person who invited them as friends.
- The user badge now has a direct link to all comments made by a user

Update #1 – Improvements to the uploader
2008-09-30 (v0.8.2-1953)

- Improvements to the uploader (backend and logging)
- Pausing and resuming should now work as expected
- Connection request buttons in your inbox now show correctly action
- Time zones in your profile now shows correct GMT time difference
- Now you can see older activities for made by You and by Others
- Improved the layout of albums in your Inbox
- The layout of your Address Book and your People tab has been fixed for Opera users
- You can also enjoy alphabetically ordered Tag suggestions
- The Fullscreen Album view now works as planned :)
- UI fixes for users running Firefox version 2
- Logout link is now available in the upper right corner next to the search box.
- Internal adjustments in system logging

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