imageloop Blog - english

ImageloopTuning - Everything a bit better

2008-08-08T12:00:00.002+02:00

Hey dear Imageloop User,

since yesterday we got a new version of our Imageloop-Service - but how does this concern you?

The usability is the same as yesterday - you can still create slideshows as easy as ever, but now it’s even faster. Our whole fundament , like the engine of a car, were tuned but our well-known and intuitive design is still the same.

Have fun trying out our new and improved service and make us happy by creating some cool Slideshows!

David

FreundeNews supports imageloop

2008-07-21T12:00:00.004+02:00

Hello imageloop users,

You probably all know the lifestreaming service FreundeNews that recently took off in germany. They enable their users to integrate their prefered services and receive updates from them automatically.

We’re happy to announce, that FreundeNews now supports imageloop as well.

It’s really easy: Login and add imageloop under “services”. Then just enter your username from imageloop and all your friends are set to receive news of your hottest imageloop widgets.

Easy, isn’t it? Just try it!

Have fun,
Lola

The best photobombers have been found!

2008-07-11T12:00:00.001+02:00

Finally: “Germany’s best photobombing” by Imageloop and the Niels Ruf show has come to a conclusion.

Last week the winner’s erotic calendar was presented in the Niels Ruf show and Sven Honert gave us some insight on how he shot his photobomb. The calendar is soon to be available for download on www.weltruf.tv.

Second place went to Paul Blaschitzko from Linz, Austria and Oliver Kuhn from Frankfurt in Germany achieved the third place.
Here are the final three photobombs again.Applause!
Congratulations to all winners!

best regards,
Lola

Internet Marketing’s regular table Cologne 2008

2008-07-04T12:00:00.001+02:00

Yesterday the time had finally come: The Internet marketing’s regular table 2008 took place in the RheinEnergie stadium with imageloop being one of the platinum sponsors

The stadium pub “The 12. man” would have offered enough room for the over 400 announced guests, but in the end not all of them showed up.
It was nevertheless a nice evening with interesting discussions, lots of Kölsch and other good acquaintances.

Here is a slideshow of the event. If you can share some photos, don’t hesitate to upload them: Just click on “more” in the upper right corner.

best regards,
Lola

Imageloop among the top 25 most successful finalists

2008-06-12T12:00:00.002+02:00

The European Tech Tour Association organized the German Tech Tour 2008 in Munich and Berlin from June 4th to June 6th for the purpose of promoting promising, european high-tech companies.

imageloop.com was chosen as one of the top 25 most successful finalists from a pool of over 60 promising startups and young technology companies in Germany and Austria. CEO Stefan Riehl successfully participated in the event and presented the company’s concept to renowned investors from around the globe.

best regards,
Lola

Watch out, photobombers!

2008-06-06T12:00:00.001+02:00

The prizes for the three best photobombings have been raised:

Instead of the tickets for the show and the photobombing with Niels Ruf you can now get:

1. prize:
A voucher for an erotic photoshoot. The winner will receive a collection of 10 photos and a mural. Total value: 599€

2. prize:
An amazing potted plant

3. prize:
An iPod

So get going and join “Germany’s best photobombing” or help us choosing the best one! Click here!

Have fun & good luck!
Lola

Blogger.de - New Auto Embed Function for Popular Blogging Service

2008-05-30T12:00:00.002+02:00

With the new Auto Embed functionality for blogger.de imageloop slideshows will be from now on available for one of the most popular blogging services in Germany.

Bloggers love the so-called widgets such as imagloop´s slideshows as they offer various functionalities that help enhance their internet presences. Via the Auto Embed functionality imageloop users can place their slideshows within their blog entries.

Lot´s of fun with imageloop slideshows !

Guido

EM skins are here!

2008-05-23T12:00:00.001+02:00

Watch out for this, soccer fans!

Imageloop is already excited for the EM! Are you as well?
Then show it and create some great EM slideshows for your favorite country with our brand new skins. Show’em to your friends on MySpace, Hi5, Friendster, orkut, Blogger et al.

Have fun!

Lola

Germanys best photobomber!

2008-05-19T12:00:00.003+02:00

Win tickets for the Niels Ruf show!

Hey hobby paparazzi and casual snapshooters!

Join the hilarious photobombing contest!

Stage yourselves when somebody wants to shoot some beautiful portraits or harmonic landscapes and improve it with your antics, poses or whatever you think looks funny! Or maybe you already have something like that for us?

Then go for it @: Photobombing

The best pictures will probably make it into the Museum Of Modern Art or will be even showcased on the homepage of Niels Ruf.
And if they’re really good they might get presented during the show.

Moreover, the Top-3 photobombers can experience the Niels Ruf show first hand and live. Come to the backstage and get a souvenir-photobomb-shooting with Niels himself!

So, get your cam, make a pic, send it in and be quick!

Lola

New user profiles and exports

2008-04-28T12:00:00.002+02:00

Dear diary,

last week there have been two novelties from the imageloop guys:

“My imageloop” has a new look
The imageloop user profiles have been redesigned to be more convenient to their purposes. Well structured and entertaining!

Need an example? Take a look at this!

And why don’t you log in and have a visit on your own profile? What? Not yet a member? Well, that’s easy to change!

New exports: Orkut and TypePad
Dear Orkut and TypePad users (or those of you, who are going to be). From now on you too have the convenient opportunity to automatically embed your slideshows into your profiles and blogs. Isn’t that great?

New version of our slideshow player released

2008-04-10T12:00:00.003+02:00

Hello everybody!

Right now the newest version of our slideshow player went live! Here’s a short list of its new features:

It’s more content-centered than ever before. The interface has been restructured and should be much more intuitive.
All texts are now fully localizable. At the moment theres German and English version, but more will follow.
Hello social slideshows! If you allow it, any user can add his own pictures to your slideshows via the interface! Woohoo!
The fanlist: Never miss a new slideshow of your favorite creators!
Comments directly inside the slideshow! Tell the world, what you think about the slideshow and rate it, too.
Average rating, view counts, permalink and much more …

“Share” interface

“Track” interface (fanlist)

Live example:

Have fun!

Happy Easter from imageloop.com!

2008-03-18T12:00:00.002+01:00

For some the egg hunt can’t start too early … for others it’s just some quiet days with too much chocolate. But this cute skin framing everything that may happen during the rabbit days is for everyone.

Happy easter to you guys :)

Barcamp Ruhr

2008-03-17T12:00:00.001+01:00

Sponsored by imageloop the BarCamp Ruhr took place last weekend in Essen. Main focus off the session included themes about Web 2.0, but also netlabels and music where involved too. Further information you can find on the official official website of the barcamp.

The next barcamps are the EduCamp in Ilemnau ( 18. - 20.04.2008 ) and the Barcamp in Offenburg ( 25. - 27.04.2008 ).

A shot at love - imageloop Slideshow for MTV on MySpace

2008-03-17T11:00:00.001+01:00

We have added a new Skin for the new tv-series "A Shot at Love", exclusively for Thanksforaddingme and MTV. Watch the participants of this new-fashioned dating show and enjoy the sight on Tila Tequila, who could already be seen on the Time Magazine-Cover.

MySpace-Profile of “A Shot at Love”

Labloop Version 2 is out now! The professional looking Slideshow

2008-02-29T12:00:00.001+01:00

We just released the new and even better Labloop Slideshow. Labloop has been developed for photo enthusiasts and those who want to become one. The stylish, sleek design ensures that your photographs are getting the attention. Labloop is a very good way to present photo series and portfolios. Another special option has been added to enable an even better viewing experience: We have added a Full Screen Button, which enables viewing the Slideshow across the whole screen.

If you want to create such an amazing Slideshow, go to www.labloop.com directly. Upload you photos and choose your slideshow size. It’s simple, fast and lets you easily embed Labloop Slideshows on platforms like MySpace, blogs and websites:

A big thanks to widgetlabs for the good cooperation and have fun using Labloop,
your imageloop team

Database crash

2008-02-21T12:00:00.001+01:00

At Tuesday morning, we had a database crash, so we could only deliver previous created slideshows. Unfortunately the database recovery taken till mid night.
To avoid similar problems in future we plan modifications on our database architecture on Tuesday morning.

System updates at imageloop

2008-02-12T12:00:00.001+01:00

To keep our system on the state of the art, we are going to
install several updates onto our servers tomorrow.
Your slideshows will remain playing, just our page wont be
reachable between 9-10AM (EST).

Review 2007

2008-01-11T12:00:00.001+01:00

The imageloop team wants to say “Thank You!” to all people, who supported us on our track. Especially we want to thank our users using our widgets!

In 2007 imageloop heavily scaled up.
The number of daily created widgets has increased by more than factor six.
Currently we record more than 15 million widget plays per month.
Our systems manage nearly 6 million images in more than 0.5 million widgets.

Additionally, during the last year we have added some new widgets and features - the guest book, the ability to create widgets from Powerpoint presentation, the officeloop, the myspace friendshow, the labloop and last but not least the API.

Of course, imageloop lost something - the third ‘o’ in the name ;-)
The old domain names imagelooop.co.uk and imagelooop.de have been replaced with imageloop.com during the relaunch of the website.

To manage the current and future amount of data imageloop has also expanded on technical level.
In March 2007 we changed to a “distributed architecture” and start running an Oracle cluster database.
In the summer we put a storage solution from EMC² into operation.

For 2008 we will continue to add new features and more widgets the meet the needs of our users.

Robert (CTO)

Share your presentations with Officeloop

2007-12-12T12:00:00.005+01:00

It has always been a hassle to share presentations with friends and associates.
One is not able to open it, someone else doesn’t support your format and so on.

Officeloop is different.

Upload your ppt, pdf, pps or odp and it will be converted directly into an Officeloop. You can then post your Officeloob to your Blog, your profile and many other sites on the net. Of course you can also mail the Officeloop to your friends. Try it yourself: http://www.officeloop.de

Upload your presentation

Embed your Officeloop

This is what comes out:

Have Fun with Officeloop and your presentations!
Cheers
Imageloop team

Hardware enhancement

2007-12-10T12:00:00.001+01:00

In the morning of tuesday and wednesday we will commit some changes in the hardware configuration of our database servers. Maintanance is scheduled for 8 till 11 am. During these timeslots we will only be able to deliver content, but all features like uploads or creation of slideshows will not be available.

New Facebook Slideshows

2007-11-21T12:00:00.005+01:00

we launched the “imageloop Facebook Application”.

Facebook users are able to create cool Slideshows and present them on their profile.

The new application supports two photo upload options:

• from your own PC/Network

• or by importing photo albums directly from your Facebook account

The slideshow widget immediately pimps up your profile.

Just get it here:

http://apps.facebook.com/imageloopslideshows/

Have fun!
your facebook project team!

Some screenshots:

Upload photos

Choose effects

Done :-)

Landscape Enhancements

2007-10-25T12:00:00.002+02:00

The maintenance downtime for some work on our Oracle database cluster in the early morning of 16.10.2007 is done. During this time we changed some configuration, and needed to restart the system. Downtime was about 90min. Sorry for that.

Furthermore we have added a new system to our application section to deliver a better performance even during the main traffic hours. For the next days, this should be enough ;-)

Go on having fun with imageloop

Regards

Stephan

Fullscreen guestbooks

2007-09-21T12:00:00.002+02:00

Imageloop upgraded its guestbook widget today to support
fullscreen display. It is enabled in all new guestbooks by
default but older guestbooks might need to replace their old HTML
code to make it work.

Enjoy the new feature and give us plenty of feedback!
Helmut

Finding friends with imageloop guestbooks

2007-09-13T12:00:00.002+02:00

Ever since the dawn of Web 2.0, social communities have been very important places
to meet new, interesting people and learn of the hottest trends even before the traditional
medias could pick up.

Today, imageloop has released a new tool that will push this trend even further.
The new guestbook allows you to stay in touch with all your friends and attract
more from around the globe!

With the effort of just one click, anyone can send you comments and you can keep track of them
with the included geotagging-feature!

To make things interesting, you’re not limited to the same old boring look&feel, but can stylize
your guestbook with several exclusive skins. No more boredom on your page.

Start pimping your guestbook now!

Helmut

Storage upgrade successful

2007-09-12T12:00:00.001+02:00

The mantainance work has been finished successfully. The measured time in which errors or lag of slideshows were perceptible, was about 7minutes.
We implemented an new storage system manufactured by EMC. This system will provide us with a larger volume for the content. Furthermore we expect a much better performance.

Regards,

Stephan