KoffeePhoto extends its photo sharing to online communities

Köln, Germany - September 23rd, 2008 - KoffeeWare today announced an extension to the KoffeePhoto photo sharing service with the introduction of Communities.

KoffeePhoto Communities allows for creation of thematic photo centric communities. To achieve this goal, a KoffeePhoto community consists of a collection of moderated photo albums. KoffeePhoto users can easily create and/or subscribe to communities and publish a selection of their albums to these communities. Within a KoffeePhoto community, users can interact by browsing photos, adding comments and reading other people’s comments.

Communities can be public or hidden. Public communities are included in a portal for browsing the existing communities and may be indexed by search engines. Hidden communities are designed for photo sharing in the private scope. More, KoffeePhoto Communities can be easily embedded to any web site.

« KoffeePhoto Communities is a tremendous opportunity for groups and associations to enable their web sites with dedicated photo sharing capabilities. » comments Gilles Pommereuil, President of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

Release is planned for October 6th.

About KoffeePhoto
KoffeePhoto is a photo suite consisting of a desktop photo manager associated to a web based photo sharing service. Optional KoffeePhoto Premium provides for secure online backup of pictures. KoffeePhoto already partners with several major printing companies worldwide.

About KoffeeWare
Founded in October 2005 and privately held, KoffeeWare provides customized online photo services. Targeted at online businesses, the KoffeeWare solutions are available online and run on both desktop computers and handheld devices or mobile phones.

KoffeePhoto and KoffeeWare are registered trademarks of KoffeeWare.

Press contact:
Carl Conrad
KoffeeWare / KoffeePhoto
+33 607.227.426
carl@koffeeware.com
www.koffeephoto.com

KoffeePhoto adds online photo backup

KoffeePhoto extends its photo sharing service to online photo backup

Strasbourg, France - June 25th, 2008 - KoffeeWare today announced an extension to the KoffeePhoto photo sharing service with the introduction of KoffeePhoto Premium, an online photo backup service as a paying option.

Digital photography is great for its flexibility. But when it comes to make sure it resists time, specific measures need to be taken as digital photos are a compilation of people’s life: weddings, babies, friends, parties, holidays… Every 15 seconds a hard drive crashes, what is done to preserve photos? Advantages of online backup over CD/DVD based backup are numerous. A quick reminder, online backup is:

• (obviously) remote (what is the need of a backup if it sits close to the computer in case of fire or theft),
• reliable (how sure to able to read CD based backup when needed which is usually after a couple of years?),
• dependable (where to find the backup CDs when needed which is usually after a couple of years),
• and inexpensive (in comparison to the cost of CDs, CD burner and the time spent backuping data).

But why using a photo dedicated online backup solution?

Numerous online storage and backup solutions exist, some are dedicated to photo storage, others provide general purpose storage. At KoffeeWare, we think that online storage benefits from being application specific. In fact, storage is only part of the story.

KoffeePhoto handles the whole photo process, from the connection to the digital camera to sharing including organizing and backuping. More, using KoffeePhoto, you may add pictures to your account without even running your own computer. Storing and backuping being completely embedded into the system, KoffeePhoto combines great ease of use and peace of mind.

Although versatile, swiss-knife-like solutions look good, application specific solutions always fulfill their mission better and easier.

KoffeePhoto introduces KoffeePhoto Premium featuring unlimited online backup of pictures. KoffeePhoto Premium provides fully automated backup and restoration of all digital picture files. Should a data loss occur, KoffeePhoto Premium will restore a whole photo library upon a single log-in, no hassle.

KoffeePhoto is available from http://www.koffeephoto.com/. KoffeePhoto Premium is priced 39,99 € a year ($59,99).

About KoffeePhoto
KoffeePhoto is a photo suite consisting of a desktop photo manager associated to a web based photo sharing service. Optional KoffeePhoto Premium provides for secure online backup of pictures. KoffeePhoto already partners with several major printing companies worldwide.

About KoffeeWare
Founded in October 2005 and privately held, KoffeeWare provides customized online photo services. Targeted at online businesses, the KoffeeWare solutions are available online and run on both desktop computers and handheld devices or mobile phones.

KoffeePhoto and KoffeeWare are registered trademarks of KoffeeWare.

Press contact:
Carl Conrad
KoffeeWare / KoffeePhoto
+33 607.227.426
carl@koffeeware.com
www.koffeephoto.com

KoffeePhoto enters strategic partnership with JetGraph for launching of KoffeePhoto Japan

KoffeePhoto enters today a strategic partnership with Tokyo based JetGraph for exclusive operation of KoffeePhoto in Japan

Strasbourg, France / Tokyo, Japan - December 12th, 2007 - KoffeeWare today announced strategic partnership with Tokyo based JetGraph Co Ltd, part of the Chugai Photo group of companies. According to the agreement, JetGraph will handle KoffeePhoto operations in Japan under the KoffeePhoto Japan brand starting in March 2008. KoffeePhoto Japan will include all KoffeePhoto free and unlimited online photo sharing solution and local photo organizing software features. KoffeePhoto Japan will fully interoperate with the world wide available KoffeePhoto photo sharing service.

«With a preview of KoffeePhoto already available in Japanese, our exclusive partnership with JetGraph will help us reaching a consequent market share in Japan while providing our japanese users with a far better user experience thanks to local print services and local support.» comments Gilles Pommereuil, President of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

«We are thrilled to be associated to this novative project.» adds Keiichi Shindo, President of JetGraph. «We liked the specificity of KoffeePhoto providing a one-stop solution for photo related tasks, from organizing to storing and to order prints of whatever format.»

KoffeePhoto Japan operation is planned to start in March 2008. KoffeePhoto is already available in japanese from http://www.koffeephoto.com/ja/.

About KoffeeWare
Started in October 2005, KoffeeWare is dedicated to B2B and B2C groupware solutions running on both desktop computers and handheld devices or mobile phones.

About KoffeePhoto
KoffeePhoto is a free photo storing and sharing solution. Based on a distributed storage model it offers virtually unlimited storage capabilities. KoffeePhoto already partners with several major printing companies worldwide.

About JetGraph
JetGraph distributes large scale printing solutions in Japan. JetGraph is a company of Chugai Photo group of companies.

KoffeePhoto and KoffeeWare are registered trademarks of KoffeeWare.

Press contact:

Keiichi Shindo
JetGraph
k.shindo@jetgraph.jp
www.jetgraph.jp

KoffeePhoto photo sharing gets two additional locales, Simplified Chinese and Czech

Strasbourg, France - 19 october 2007 - Photo sharing needs to be close to everybody’s everyday life. Therefore, no language boundaries should refrain its use. Since beginning of its development, KoffeePhoto was to break the boundaries and address the needs of photo sharing throughout the world. With this in mind, KoffeePhoto rapidly included five locales, being English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

Two weeks after introducing the KoffeePhoto Online Translation Tool, KoffeeWare announces two new locales added to KoffeePhoto with the help of the community of users, Simplified Chinese and Czech.

«Thanks to these additions, KoffeePhoto photo sharing gets one step closer to its users. Thanks to some high dedicated users, no doubt more locales will be added soon.» comments Carl Conrad, Marketing Director of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

«Our KoffeePhoto Online Translation Tool and a strong involvement of our users really helped us getting things done rapidly.» adds Gilles Pommereuil, Technical Director of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

KoffeePhoto is available from http://www.koffeephoto.com/.

About KoffeeWare
Started in October 2005, KoffeeWare is dedicated to groupware solutions running on both desktop computers and handheld devices or mobile phones.

About KoffeePhoto
KoffeePhoto is a free photo storing and sharing solution. Based on a distributed storage model it offers virtually unlimited storage capabilities. KoffeePhoto already partners with several major printing companies worldwide.
KoffeePhoto and KoffeeWare are registered trademarks of KoffeeWare.

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KoffeePhoto, la solución de almacenamiento y partición de fotos en línea: más simple, clara, y rápida

KoffeePhoto, la solución de almacenamiento y partición de fotos gratis e ilimitada evoluciona técnicamente para un uso más simple, claro, y rápido.

Estrasburgo, Francia – 12 de octubre de 2007 – KoffeeWare, joven empresa francesa, da luz a una nueva versión de su solución de almacenamiento y partición de fotos KoffeePhoto. KoffeePhoto es la solución perfecta para almacenar numerosos fotos y compartirlas con su entorno privado (familia, amigos), cuando el respeto de la vida privada resulta importante. Después de todo un año de explotación y de experiencia, esta nueva versión se acerca otra vez de las necesidades completas de los usuarios: más simple, más claro y rápido, KoffeePhoto ya es la síntesis de la organización local de fotos con la partición a distancia y la posibilidad de guardar sus fotos en línea.

KoffeePhoto propone un package completo para gestionar sus fotos – un programa y un espacio de consulta en la Web. Con el programa KoffeePhoto instalado en su ordenador, las funciones de organización y de publicación de fotos unen simplicidad y rapidez – las fases de descarga nunca se hacen notar. Así, los álbumes se quedan disponibles y consultables en cualquier punto del mundo, en cualquier momento. KoffeePhoto corresponde así perfectamente al gran público: hacemos muchas fotos, y querríamos compartirlos con la familia o los amigos rápidamente, sin límite, con mucha facilidad. Ya se puede visualizar las fotos de manera interactiva, o gracias a un diaporama en pantalla completa (tecnología Flash). El tamaño de la pantalla se detecta automáticamente para ajustar la posición de las fotos, y optimizar el uso de la banda ancha. También se puede ver las fotos gracias a los módulos de personalización de iGoogle y Netvibes.

Otra mayor ventaja de KoffeePhoto es la posibilidad de guardar las fotos. Se almacenan los archivos originales en los ordenadores del círculo relacional, y sirven de base para recuperar una fototeca perdida. Este tipo de almacenamiento distribuido permite guardar el conjunto de sus fotos, lo que es particularmente importante vista la multiplicidad de fotos digitales frente a la vida útil de los ordenadores.

Finalmente, KoffeePhoto sigue permitiendo pedir revelados papel vía varios colaboradores: estos intercambios han sido optimizado para acelerar las transmisiones y mejorar la experiencia del usuario. Con transmisiones de servidor a servidor, descargar fotos es casi instantáneo.

« La simplificación de nuestra solución de partición de fotos responde a las necesidades expresadas por nuestros usuarios » dice Carl Conrad, Director Marketing de KoffeeWare, la sociedad que edita KoffeePhoto. «También nos permite disponer de los productos necesarios al buen desarrollo de nuestra actividad, y particularmente con nuestros socios.»

«La nueva arquitectura del programa permite sincronizar en tiempo récord, y hace de KoffeePhoto el medio más rápido para compartir fotos a centenares» añade Gilles Pommereuil, Director Técnico de KoffeeWare, la sociedad que edita KoffeePhoto.

KoffeePhoto está disponible en http://www.koffeephoto.com.

A propósito de KoffeeWare.
Creada en octubre de 2005, KoffeeWare es una sociedad especializada en los programas de tipo groupware o peer-to-peer, para los ordenadores de oficina y los aparatos móviles. KoffeeWare desarrolla y distribuye el servicio de almacenamiento y partición de foto KoffeePhoto. El proyecto KoffeePhoto está sostenido por OSEO/Anvar (agencia francesa de valorización de la investigación). Establecida en Estrasburgo (Noreste de Francia), la sociedad está sostenida activamente por Sémia. Además, Gilles Pommereuil y Carl Conrad son ambos Lauréats Alsace Entreprendre (premiados del concurso de empresarios de la región Alsace) de 2007.

A propósito de KoffeePhoto
KoffeePhoto es una solución convergente de almacenamiento y de partición de fotos en línea. Gracias a su modelo de almacenamiento original, se guardan y comparten las fotos gratuitamente, en su tamaño original, sin límite de almacenamiento. Se puede consultar las fotos de manera interactiva, o gracias a un diaporama en pantalla completa. Tras varios colaboradores, el usuario puede también pedir revelados papel. KoffeePhoto funciona con Windows 2000/XP/Vista, MacOS X y Linux y está disponible en inglés, alemán, español, francés y japonés.
KoffeePhoto y KoffeeWare son marcas registradas por KoffeeWare.

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KoffeePhoto, the online photo storage and sharing solution, gets easier, clearer and faster

KoffeePhoto, the free and unlimited online photo storage and sharing solution gets a new technical platform for an easier, clearer and faster user experience.

Strasbourg, France – September 12th, 2007 - KoffeeWare unveils today a new version of KoffeePhoto, the online photo storage and sharing solution. KoffeePhoto perfectly targets the needs of photo storing and sharing within the scope of known relationship (family, friends) where numerous photos are shared and where privacy is a concern. Based on the feedback from numerous users, this new version targets increased simplicity and added proximity to the users’ everyday experience with his photo management tasks thus providing the convergence between local photo management, remote photo sharing and online photo storage and backup.

KoffeePhoto is a complete photo management solution including a software for local management and background photo upload tasks as well as a web space for photo sharing and print ordering tasks. Albums are available for viewing by anyone anywhere at anytime. KoffeePhoto thus perfectly addressed the needs of the general public use: a lot of pictures taken and shared with family and friends rapidly, without limitation nor hassle. Pictures can be displayed interactively or through a full screen Flash based slideshow. Size of the screen used is automatically detected to optimize display and bandwidth usage. More, the pictures can be displayed on personalized home pages or web pages using the modules available for iGoogle and Netvibes.

The main advantage of the KoffeePhoto photo sharing solution is the distributed storage. The original files are stored on the computers of fellows sharing the picture and are the source for a restoration of the photo library if lost. This distributed storage offers a straightforward solution for patrimonial archiving of photos which will become a more and more critical task as more digital pictures are taken and the computer’s life time scarely exceeds a couple of years.

Last, KoffeePhoto provides for integrated photo prints ordering through multiple online vendors. Uploads to these printing services have also been optimized in order to reduce the upload time and improve the customer experience. Copied from server to server, transfer is close to instantaneous.

« This simplification of our photo storage and sharing solution fully addresses requirements expressed by our users » claims Carl Conrad, Marketing Manager of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto. « and allows us to provide our partners with the right tools for an increased activity and turnover. »

« Our new software architecture helped us to achieve far better synchronization times and allow KoffeePhoto to offer the fastest means of sharing hundreds of pictures. » adds Gilles Pommereuil, CTO of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

KoffeePhoto is available from http://www.koffeephoto.com.

About KoffeeWare
Started in October 2005, KoffeeWare is dedicated to groupware solutions running on both desktop computers and handheld devices or mobile phones.

About KoffeePhoto
KoffeePhoto is a free photo storing and sharing solution. Based on a distributed storage model it offers virtually unlimited storage capabilities. KoffeePhoto already partners with several major printing companies worldwide.
KoffeePhoto and KoffeeWare are registered trademarks of KoffeeWare.

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KoffeeWare unveils mobile extension preview to KoffeePhoto photo sharing

KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing links pictures from its distributed peer-to-peer network down to the mobile phone

Strasbourg, France - March 21st, 2007 - KoffeeWare unveils a preview version of future KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing. KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing allows KoffeePhoto users to access and share photo albums on their mobile phone. Storage is free and unlimited thanks to KoffeePhoto’s unique private distributed storage technology. Photo albums are available anytime anywhere. Pictures can be viewed interactively or using full screen streamed slide-shows. The size of the screen is automatically detected in order to maximize the display and optimize the file download.

“We believe it is now the perfect time for such kind of applications as the combination of 3G/3G+ phones capable of high wireless data throughput and QVGA displays makes running photo sharing applications on mobile phones a reality.” explains Carl Conrad, Marketing Manager of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

“In early development stages of KoffeePhoto photo sharing in 2005, a mobile phone based client was already an obvious milestone on our product development roadmap. While the application runs well with a GPRS/EDGE connection, 3G(UMTS)/3G+(HSDPA) or WiFi connection are recommended for an optimal user experience.” adds Gilles Pommereuil, CTO of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

The functions currently implemented allow to browse photo albums.

Available as a J2ME application (a small Java mobile application), KoffeePhoto mobile photo sharing can be easily installed on a wide variety of mobile phones and converging PDAs. It can be downloaded from: http://koffeephoto.com/mobile. A demo mode is included. More information on http://www.koffeephoto.com/en/mobile-photo-sharing and http://blog.koffeephoto.com.

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My KoffeePhoto Frame links photo sharing and Netvibes mashups

My KoffeePhoto Frame available as a Netvibes widget

Strasbourg, France – March 15th, 2007 - Sticking to the strategy of providing a universal access to pictures, KoffeeWare launches today My KoffeePhoto Frame available as a Netvibes widget. My KoffeePhoto Frame brings display of pictures stored on the KoffeePhoto right into the Netvibes framework. KoffeePhoto users can now benefit from viewing shared pictures within My KoffeePhoto Frames on their Netvibes desktop.

My KoffeePhoto Frame allows to display a reduced size slide-show of pictures from a specified KoffeePhoto photo album or from a set of albums. Download and install the module, enter your KoffeePhoto login information, specify which albums to display and off you go! Of course, at any time, you can access the album of the picture displayed.

My KoffeePhoto Frame widget for Netvibes can be downloaded from Netvibes Ecosystem. A demo mode is included. To display your own pictures, you will need to run the KoffeePhoto Desktop edition and create your own account.

About KoffeeWare
Started in October 2005, KoffeeWare is dedicated to peer-to-peer groupware solutions running on both desktop computers and handheld devices or mobile phones.

About KoffeePhoto
KoffeePhoto is a free photo sharing software. Based on a distributed storage model it offers virtually unlimited storage capabilities. KoffeePhoto already partners with several major printing companies worldwide.
KoffeePhoto and KoffeeWare are registered trademarks of KoffeeWare.

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KoffeePhoto version 2 includes Web Space and picture editing

KoffeePhoto completes functional perimeter with included Web Space and picture editing functions and shows path to future convergent software

Strasbourg, France – January 15, 2007 – KoffeeWare, a company dedicated to peer-to-peer groupware solutions, unveils KoffeePhoto version 2, free photo sharing software. Featuring an integrated peer-to-peer secure backup system and pictures available on PC (Windows or Linux), Mac (Mac OS X) as well as on converging PDAs, this new version of KoffeePhoto is a major step towards the converging version of the software. KoffeePhoto version 2 is a major breakthrough as it extends the user experience to new means of accessing their pictures and the pictures shared by friends while reducing the need for a third party photo editing software.

As a reminder, the KoffeePhoto software provides a straightforward means of storing and sharing personal digital picture libraries. Thanks to its distributed storage model, storage is virtually unlimited and, more than anything else, is completely free.

The new release includes:

• A free Web Space fully synchronized with the pictures stored in the KoffeePhoto albums. Each KoffeePhoto user automatically benefits from this web space making sharing of pictures easier than ever. Of course, access to high resolution pictures and automated slide-shows remain available using the KoffeePhoto software and can be run at the click of a button from the web space. Thanks to specifically optimized templates, these pages may also be browsed on small displays such as found on PDAs.
• RSS feed based access to albums for easy picture posting on personal blogs include dynamic update of the pictures displayed. Display of album preview can be easily integrated into web site for simplified linking to the KoffeePhoto Web Space.
• Newly included photo editing functions include contrast and brightness balance, color management, change to black and white or sepia… These photo editing functions will be rapidly extended thanks to a straightforward plug-in architecture. Of course, photo editing is safe with preview and undo capabilities.
• Simplified contact management eases photo sharing with friends and relatives.

These new features extend the previous feature-set and define a new level of user experience. With inclusion of these features, KoffeePhoto is a unique software taking care of all tasks related to personal photo management, from the camera to sharing and to the printing service, no additional software is required.

«We are convinced that KoffeePhoto has now reached a mature functional level, » states Gilles Pommereuil, CTO of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto «and provides new means of accessing personal digital picture libraries giving a new and deeper meaning to the promise of an universal access to one’s personal digital picture library.».

«We are proud of the confidence of our growing community of printing partners, » adds Carl Conrad, Marketing and Communications Manager of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto «and are confident that this new level of functionality will help them providing their customers with a better experience as well as bringing new customers to their service.».

Available for Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux, KoffeePhoto can be freely downloaded from http://www.koffeephoto.com. Online Web Space is available from http://albums.koffeephoto.com.

About KoffeeWare

Started in October 2005, KoffeeWare is dedicated to groupware solutions running on both desktop computers and handheld devices or mobile phones.

About KoffeePhoto

KoffeePhoto is a free photo sharing software. Based on a distributed storage model it offers virtually unlimited storage capabilities. KoffeePhoto already partners with several major printing companies worldwide.

KoffeePhoto and KoffeeWare are registered trademarks of KoffeeWare.

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KoffeePhoto partners with ColorMailer and FastLab for photo printing

KoffeePhoto, free p2p photo sharing software, includes photo printing service from ColorMailer and FastLab

Strasbourg/Vevey – November 25th 2006 – With this new partner, any KoffeePhoto user can order prints from any computer connected to the network. The power of the KoffeePhoto peer-to-peer network resides in the « always available stored pictures » feature. The pictures being neither compressed nor reduced in size, this feature allows access to the pictures in their native resolution at any time for ordering prints from any computer connected to the KoffeePhoto network without any quality loss.

The user selects a digital photo service among those available and depending on the destination country of the order. KoffeePhoto then automatically transfers the pictures to the selected service. «From Scandinavia to Spain, the partnership with ColorPlaza allows us to provide users of all European countries with a high-quality integrated service.» comments Carl Conrad, Marketing and Communications Manager of KoffeeWare, editor of KoffeePhoto.

Since 1999, ColorPlaza, provider of the ColorMailer and FastLab services, has gained a solid reputation on the digital photo printing marketplace. «The integration of our service with the innovative KoffeePhoto software creates a complete set of functionalities and an excellent tool for the photographer.» comments Nico Lugt, co-founder of Colorplaza Ltd.

About KoffeePhoto

KoffeePhoto is free online photo sharing software. Thanks to its secure storage model, pictures can be saved and shared for free in their native resolution without any storage limitation. Available for Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux, KoffeePhoto can be freely downloaded from http://www.koffeephoto.com.

About ColorPlaza Ltd

Colorplaza Ltd is an independent company based in Vevey/Switzerland, active in the field of digital imaging and in the development of multimedia Internet applications. The company was founded in December 1999 and has rapidly expanded to become a leader in Europe in the segment of online digital photo finishing.
www.colormailer.com
www.fastlab.com

Press contacts:

Nico Lugt
ColorPlaza
+41 (21) 923.35.00
presse@colorplaza.com