Arf, Conti, maintenant, il parait qu'il faut faire des R.P. online, ne parler qu'à des journalistes de sites d'info et mettre des tags sur les sites de blogueurs influents...
A ce sujet, z'auriez pas un p'tit tag sympa que je puisse faire tourner ? ;)
DISCLAIMER: This is a VERY rough Google translation ...
Ipernity, or the return of the pioneers of Web 1.0 from Côte d'Azur
Nobody in Sophia Antipolis forgets the adventures of Viola, the first French search engine, purchased by Wanadoo, nor of Respublica, the first community site, taken over by Liberty Surf and Tiscali.
Two "historical" successes of the Internet, due mainly to two pioneers of Web 1.0 from Côte d'Azur: Christophe Ruelle and Christian Conti. The first conceived Viola, the second accompanied the growth of Respublica, until its purchase by Tiscali.
Newly rich from the sale of their companies during the Internet bubble, Christian Conti and Christophe Ruelle, today ages 39 and 35, could have been satisfied to live off their earnings. But the first untied himself and toured the world, while the second, exceptionally gifted with information, kept his nose to the machines with an idea fixed in his head: to find a means of organizing and developing the mass of data that each one of us produces in our lives.
Having understood that the storage and classification of the millions of photos, videos, texts, and audio files of M. Toutlemonde [Mr. All-the-World] would end up quickly posing a problem, Christophe Ruelle put himself, in 2002, to work on data-processing tools which would make it possible to store, classify, and give life to this "personal data inheritance". It did not take any effort to convince his friend Christian Conti, at the return of his trip, of the value of his research and it's potential commercial applications.
Thus was born Ipernity (a contraction of "IP" for internet protocol, and "eternity" for the duration), the first site to integrate multimedia, community, and storage -- the conservation and promotion of personal data. Open for a few weeks, the site has already lured a number of users thanks to its ergonomics, its sober and smart interface, and its promotion of the tools of Web 2.0.
With servers sized to accomodate a million members and a multilingual site (French, English, and soon Spanish, Italian, and German), Ipernity already has a European base with more users showing an interest.
Is this another success story for these pioneers of the Internet from Côte d'Azur?
Now well, this is far better than rough. Thanks a lot, you did a great job.
And good luck to Team Ipernity. I hope your money is not burned away until you make new profit with this project ;).
chouette de lire l'article, il répond bien à quelques questions que beaucoup doivent se poser, et pour contenter tout le monde : faudrait un interview en anglais, allemand, néerlandais et j'en passe ... en voià du pain sur la planche pour notre équipe dynamique ..
I would not be surprised to wake up one day and find out that ipernity had been sold to Google.... not that is a bad thing as long as it keeps it's roots. Just make sure you stay on and YOU keep the veto power.
I speak only Qui et Non, du pain, du vin et du Boursin-French, so I don't understand a word what the article says; But the photo is great! Congrats! :)
And Fuzzilein, thank you for explaning IPERTERNITY in English. Good to know what it means.
This comment is going to be immensely unpopular (being a wet blanket in the midst of the applause), but as one of the Flickr refugees, the above article does raise a concern. Christian and Christophe are both obviously very talented and a clear choice for handling a project of this magnitude (and approaching things from an EU perspective is an added bonus).
But (or at least, according to the article) both have also shown that they are willing to sell off their previous projects. Is Team Ipernity in this for the long term, the previous projects simply providing the means to realize their lifelong dream? Or is this just another chance to create a highly successful website that can be sold off again for a tidy profit?
This information, if true, resolved at least some questions that were key points to me like:
1. Is ipernity a clone of flickr, or a licensed flickr, or did they write from scratch? The paper says: they wrote from scratch.
2. Where does the ipernity funding comes from? seems clear.
3. Is ipernity designed for the eternity? seems to be.
It opens also some other questions, the first one beeing:
Q1: What, if they (at yahoo) come, see and buy? They easily can afford this. In the meantime I´ll play on this new playground, support you, and address my best congratulations to you.
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Team ipernitypro says:
Clic on "View all sizes" above to read this article.
Pandarinepro says:
Jean-Michelpro says:
mais félicitations ;)
Jesus Presley says:
Sophie@ipernitypro says:
Christian Contipro replies:
Sophie@ipernitypro replies:
A ce sujet, z'auriez pas un p'tit tag sympa que je puisse faire tourner ? ;)
deborahf says:
Guido Waldenmeier says:
cool photo
DerBaumpro says:
stefanie says:
cerement says:
Topherpro replies:
Jesus Presley replies:
And good luck to Team Ipernity. I hope your money is not burned away until you make new profit with this project ;).
NicoleB replies:
Merci beaucoup :)
Danypro says:
Jean-Michelpro says:
"while the second, exceptionally gifted with information, kept his nose to the machines"
looooool
bon ok, je sors
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Christophe Ruellepro says:
This kind of news makes our mothers the happiest in the world.
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cerement says:
@everyone: yes, the typos were solely my fault
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NicoleB says:
Congratulations though :)
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Amandine // Mata Haripro replies:
Bon OK on est pas sympas là... Le pôvre! lol
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Man-O-net says:
bravo à vous, ... et un peu à nous aussi tiens..... allez au boulot faut le faire vivre ce site...
P'tit Jopro says:
Nelma-F says:
And Fuzzilein, thank you for explaning IPERTERNITY in English. Good to know what it means.
picture-writer says:
cerement says:
But (or at least, according to the article) both have also shown that they are willing to sell off their previous projects. Is Team Ipernity in this for the long term, the previous projects simply providing the means to realize their lifelong dream? Or is this just another chance to create a highly successful website that can be sold off again for a tidy profit?
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Lutz-R. Frank says:
(J'excuse mon francais - il me faut pratiquer ... :))
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lichtundschattenpro says:
@ Ipernity-Team
Go ahead with your style of communication and please add some more features we need desperately: www.ipernity.com/blog/unbehaun/12169
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Ron Talispro says:
1. Is ipernity a clone of flickr, or a licensed flickr, or did they write from scratch? The paper says: they wrote from scratch.
2. Where does the ipernity funding comes from? seems clear.
3. Is ipernity designed for the eternity? seems to be.
It opens also some other questions, the first one beeing:
Q1: What, if they (at yahoo) come, see and buy? They easily can afford this. In the meantime I´ll play on this new playground, support you, and address my best congratulations to you.
lichtundschattenpro says:
cerement
I understand very well what you intend.
BUT I think we are not entitled to ask these questions. Everybody has the right to run a business and is free to sell if it is profitable.
We may criticise, if things should happen like in Flickr....but that's all.
edit: typo
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