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One of my favourite pastimes in Ipernity is "exploring" the lastest tracks uploaded by members. Some are very well-known oldies that I'll always cherish but some are really stunning surprises that I've never known and I am happy that someone "recommended" to me.

Ipernity as a kind of music recommendation system or rather a music discovery system.

Thank-you Ipernity community for:

• Leslie Feist (songs)
• Damien Rice (songs)
• Kings of Convenience (songs)
• Stone Roses (songs)
• more or less Muse (songs)
• Jehro (songs)
• Verve (songs)
• and many others

Wikimedia Commons is a project that like Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and it's main goal is to create a vast repository of free to use and distribute media files.

Wikimedia Commons The Picture of the Year 2006 - Aurora Borealis

Originally Wikimedia Commons served as a central place for images, audio and video files used by different language versions of Wikipedia. An image has to be uploaded only once and it can easily be used by various Wikimedia projects. But for a long time Wikimedia Commons is used by various other external projects, in fact anyone is free to use and distribute data found on the Wikimedia Commons servers - generally there's only one condition - you must comply with license(s) the given file was published by its author. Usually it is GNU Free Documentation License or several Creative Commons licences - a part from that a lot of files are in Public Domain.

Wikimedia Commons now has over two million files. This is around 11 months after it reached one million. Since March 2007 it routinely has over 100,000 files uploaded every single month. It is becoming more and more common to have over 5,000 files in a single day. Please read more on this subject.

Some notable features of Wikimedia Commons:

• Picture of the Year competition
• Featured Images
• Quality Images
• Mayflower search engine (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~tangotango/mayflower/ )
• onsite ogg video/audio playback
• geocoding
• category RSS feeds - each category now has a RSS feed for new files that get added to that category. If you are interested in a topic and it has a category, you can add the RSS feed link to your feed reader

Wimedia Commons is still a relatively young project it is quite likely that quite soon it may reach the 10M files mark.

One of the most prominent features of Ipernity are groups. Not just plain photogroups but real multimedia groups.

From time to time I'm looking for a suitable group or I come across a really interesting group. I'd like to share with you my personal selection of Ipernity groups. Hopefully you can find something that is worthwhile and that suits your tastes or needs.

Have fun!

Transformation

Images that have been transformed in some creative and artistic way. The final work of art is just great. See for yourselves!

• Another view of the world
• Media Synthesis
• PHOTOMONTAGE / COLLAGE
• Manipulated s.p.
• Manipulated reality
• << PIX EDIT >>
• Multimedia
• Image Editing
• surreality
• HDR

About and around Ipernity

Various ideas, discussions and projects to improve Ipernity or present Ipernity content better.

• Unofficial ipernity Ideas and Wish Group - discuss your ideas with others users here
• Ipernity Frontpage
• Take a look here!!! (Discover hidden photostreams)
• Ipernity Groups Directory
• Ipernity Hall of Fame
• #ipernity - Internet Relay Chat
• I-Central

Video

Now video groups on Ipernity are possible and they are really innovative.

• 365minutes@V
• HAINT'S ORIGINAL VIDEO ART
• selfmade video & animation

Landscape and nature/Landschaft und Natur

I love nature! Have a look at these groups and cherish gifts of nature. "Sky is creative - I'm not".

• Im Wald - At forest
• Beauty of Sky
• Pastels in the nature
• Landscape
• Sunsets and Skys
• Sky & Clouds
• Sky is creative i'm not
• Beauty of Sky

Inspirations

I wish Ipernity had more groups like this one - very interesting and creative.

• Kafkaesque

Effects

Various effects that make your photos very special.

• Light Reflections - Widerspiegelungen - des réflections - reflectione
• B & W
• Bokeh - the blurry way of photography

Composition

Make great impression with your photos that are composed like these.

• "asymetrix"
• Maximum Minimalism
• LESS IS MORE: MINIMAL IN IPERNITY