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Hello all

We need more volunteers to help us in completing translation of ipernity into:
- Portuguese (European)
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Danish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Finnish
- Galician
- Hungarian
- Polish
- Czech
- Japanese

We need members translating from English or French or Esperanto.

Requirements:
- mother-tongue in one of the targeted languages
- perfectly fluent in English or French or Esperanto
- aged 18+
- ideally, experienced in translation and a good practice of internet and social sharing sites.

We give PRO accounts to volunteers and honor them in our Thanks page.

If you want to participate, please contact us from this page.

And a big thank you to all of you supporting and helping us every day ;-)

The ipernity Team

PS: we are also thinking about Icelandic and Russian, if you are interested, please contact us too.

Dear friends,

As you know, we are still working on releasing the ipernity API. Almost 80% is done but it's time consuming and while working on this project, we cannot progress on other improvements and new features (remember we are only 2 programmers). So we decided to make a short coffee-break last week to complete one of our "secret" projects ;)... BitTorrent!

As from now, ipernity proposes a solution to share voluminous contents such as full-lenght personal videos or entire folders of thousands photos, using BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol and the new ipernity tracker.

For those who don't know anything about BitTorrent and how to use it, there are dozens of tutorials on the net. Of course, we won't let you down: Lea is writing a new FAQ entry and will put it online in a couple of days.

How does it work?

-- from ipernity, go to the upload page: you'll find a new "BitTorrent" section and your personal ipernity tracker URL. Keep this address in mind.

-- from your computer, open your BitTorrent client and make a .torrent of the file(s) you want to share, specifying your personal ipernity tracker. Then start seeding this torrent to make it active.

-- from ipernity, go back to the upload page, BitTorrent section, and import your .torrent file in your ipernity space

-- that's all!

Your .torrent file is considered as a doc in ipernity. You'll find it in "your docs" page, "others" section. Like all the other docs, it can be added to albums, posted in groups, faved, commented, tagged... and of course you can decide who can access your .torrent (friends, family or every members).

On the .torrent doc page, you'll find specific information: torrent status, seeds/leechers, name and size of source file(s)...

Authorized members who want to leech your content must download the related .torrent file and open it with a BitTorrent client. Of course you must keep your .torrent file active until at least one leecher completed the download.

We hope that solution will give you more ways to share personal videos and 100MB+ contents.

Innovative isn't it?

The ipernity team.

PS: if you are asking "Next steps?", here is the official answer for the next weeks: API, albums grouping and ordering, password access.... and more ;-)

* 31/10/2008 update * Contributions are now closed. Thanks to all for your participation.

[EN] Promote your photos on a giant screen in Berlin Ku’damm with Ford Fiesta!

In October 2008, Ford Fiesta gives ipernity members the chance to be promoted on the Ford Fiesta Mega-LED-Screen (104 m2!) in the middle of Berlin Ku’damm.

Look at that, wow!

If you would like to see your pictures there, simply join that ipernity group: This is now! and add your best photos.

The pictures should portray the theme "This is now" and be based on people, hobbies and favourite places and scenes.

Convince our expert jury with your share - snap the chance to win an original iPod touch®.

This is brought to you by the new Ford Fiesta and supported by ipernity!

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[DE] Berlin will dich sehen! Mitten im Jetzt.

Der Ford Fiesta ermöglicht es ipernity-Mitgliedern, ihre Fotos zu veröffentlichen.

Die besten Fotos werden im Oktober 2008 auf der Ford Fiesta Mega-LED-Wand (104 qm!) mitten auf dem Berliner Ku’damm gezeigt.

Wer seine Bilder dort sehen möchte, tritt einfach dieser Gruppe bei und sendet ihr seine besten Fotos zum Thema „Mitten im Jetzt“!

Die Bilder sollten das Thema anhand von Personen, Hobbys, Lieblingsorten und Szenen aufgreifen.

Überzeugen Sie unsere Experten-Jury mit Ihrem Foto – und mit etwas Glück gewinnen Sie einen original iPod touch®.

Unterstützt wird die Aktion vom neuen Ford Fiesta und von ipernity.

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[FR] Vos photos projetées sur écran géant dans le centre de Berlin !

En octobre, Ford Fiesta donne l'opportunité aux membres d'ipernity de projeter leurs photos sur un écran géant de 104 m2 situé dans le quartier commerçant de Ku'damm au centre de Berlin.

Pour avoir la chance d'être exposé sur cet écran, rejoignez ce groupe et ajoutez-y vos plus belles photos.

Les photos doivent s'inscrire dans le thème "C'est maintenant !" et mettre en scène des personnes, des passions, des lieux favoris.

Si vous convainquez notre jury d'experts, vous aurez également la chance de gagner un iPod touch® original.

Cette opportunité est offerte par la nouvelle Ford Fiesta et ipernity!