Ipernity

Infobox Website
name = ipernity
favicon =



caption = ipernity front page
url = http://www.ipernity.com/
commercial = yes
type = Sharing, Social networking
registration =
language = Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
owner = ipernity
author = Christophe Ruelle
launch date = April 2007
current status = Active
revenue =

ipernity is a website proposing free services of multimedia sharing and social networking.

The site is targeted for both authors/artists and families/friends, and allows to publish and to share in a same space, any type of digital content such as blog, photos, videos, audios.

It's often compared to Flickr, with more features. [ [http://blog.go2web20.net/2007/04/flickr-clone-with-some-stronger.html From Go2Web20.net: Flickr clone(?) with some Stronger Features!] ] [ [http://www.photographybay.com/2007/12/03/flickr-alternatives/ From Photography Bay: 7 alternatives to flickr] ] [ [http://www.techiequest.com/ipernity-flickr-clones-with-more-features/ From techiequest.com: ipernity - Flickr clone with more features] ]

Basements

ipernity is a project founded in 2005 by :
* Christophe Ruelle, co-founder of Voila (a search engine bought by France Telecom in 1998) and eStat (a site-centric traffic measurement system)
* Christian Conti, co-founder of Respublica (a French-speaking online community, bought by Libertysurf/Tiscali in 2000)

The project aimed to allow:
* everyone
* with the help of information technologies and networks
* to build and to enhance, forever and in a same place
* its digital life.

ipernity was developed in Sophia Antipolis and required 2 years of programming and testing. On May 2006, an alpha release has been put online. ipernity has updated its service to a beta release in April 2007.

Targets and uses

ipernity is targeted to :
* authors/artists who want to promote their digital work to all the internet users,
* families/friends for a private use of their digital content.

Its blog is widely used by Esperanto-speakers community. [ [http://www.esperanto-usa.org/en/node/974/ From Esperanto-USA magazine: ipernity] ] [ [http://klaku.net/teknologio/Ipernity_esperas_je_2_milionoj_da_esperantistoj/ From klaku.net: ipernity hopes 2 million esperanto-speakers] ]

It's particularly appreciated by photographers community [ [http://photografr.com/2007/09/23/ipernity-groups/ From Photografr.com: ipernity groups] ]

ipernity is also a new home for flickr users after censorship controversy [ [http://fredericiana.com/2007/07/01/ipernity-yay-flickr-nay/ Ipernity yea, Flickr nay?] ]

Functionality

ipernity allows to publish and share :
* Blog,
* Photos,
* Videos,
* Audios,
* and all other type of digital content.

Content may be organize in multimedia albums.

Several upload methods are available. [ [http://mashable.com/2007/04/28/ipernity/ From Mashable.com: ipernity launches blog site with cool media upload tool] ]

Tags and geotags

Authors and visitors may tag every content :
* Keywords
* Members tag : (who is concerned by this content ?)
* Geotags : (where does this content from ?)

These metadata make search easy and allow new functions such as world exploration of photos and videos (a mashup of Google Maps.

Protection of rights

ipernity includes Creative Commons licenses.

ocial networking

ipernity allows interactivity between contents, authors and visitors. Feedback/comments system, contacts networks,

instant messenging, email facilitate social networking

Interoperability

All contents published on ipernity may be pushed to feed third-party services such as [RSS] / [Atom standard)|Atom] readers, personalized start pages (Netvibes, iGoogle...), ,social-bookmarking services like del.icio.us...

ipernity includes an API allowing third-parties to develop mashups, software and services interacting with its platform. As of June 17, 2008, it's not released yet to the public. [ [http://www.ipernity.com/blog/team/45137 ipernity: What's up? Quoi de neuf? by Team Ipernity] ]

Technology

ipernity is mainly build with free and open source software technology:
* PHP
* Perl
* AJAX
* MySQL

ee also

* Pikeo
* Flickr
* Vimeo

References

External links

*en [http://www.ipernity.com/ www.ipernity.com]