Cracking down on SPAMmers
Anyone who uses the internet these days knows and understands the frustrations of SPAM. As an IT administrator, I can personally tell you that these guys get more creative each year and are continuously on the lookout for new ways to exploit your system.
Today, 72Photos went on the offensive and suspended over 2,500 accounts in violation of our SPAM policy. This house cleaning effort yielded some great benefits… improved seek times in the database; and no more annoying SPAMmer nonsense. Unfortunately, for some of you this resulted in downtime earlier this morning.
In our continuing efforts to crack down on SPAMmers, 72Photos will be temporarily disabling the use of hyperlinks in comments and profile bio’s until a solid solution can be implemented.
72photos Reviewed on MakeUseOf
We’re still early into 2010, but it’s already proving to be an exciting year for 72photos.
We’d like to thank the folks over at MakeUseOf for the wonderful review of our service. As a personal user of their directory and articles, I was ecstatic when I heard the news of the 72photos review. Head over to their site and check it out for yourself.
Development on 72photos may have seemed to slow down towards the end of ‘09. However, that wasn’t for lack of planning and a great deal of bug fixing. We have some very exciting (and very big) changes planned for the first quarter of ‘10 that we’ll be kicking off in a matter of days.
As always we’ll keep you updated with full details via our blog and more frequent updates on twitter.
Happy New Year!
72photos On The Web
72photos has been recently featured on sites around the web.
Here’s a quick roundup:
30 Brilliant Photo Editors – Visit 72photos on Instant Shift
YXZ.se Design Inspiration – Visit 72photos on css.yzx.se
CSS Creme – Visit 72photos on CSS Creme
CSS Vault – Visit 72photos on CSS Vault
Techpp – Visit 72photos on Techpp
And many, many more. Keep spreading the word!
72Photos v2 to unveil Friday Jan 31st
Jon: “Wow Eric, that picture that you took last week is absolutely stunning. The detail and lighting were perfect.”
Eric: “Thanks. I took that with my new Cannon Rebel XT that I got for Christmas.”
Jon: “I’ve always wondered what equipment people use to take some shots I’ve seen on 72Photos.”
Eric: “Well then I think you would be glad to know that you can. With 72Photos new Camera Profiler you can see the make and model of the camera used to take the picture, as well as see other photos taken by the same camera uploaded to the 72Photos community by different members.”
Introducing Camera Profiler. An exclusive new tool to the 72Photos image hosting community that allows you and our viewers to locate other great photos taken by the same camera make and model the photo was taken with. Camera Profiler is accessible from any picture preview page and from within your personal 72Photos account. As an extra bonus we’ve taken it one step further by showing you hot accessories that will spice up your camera as well as your love for photography
In addition to our exclusive new feature, you’ll see some visual appearance changes to the user dashboard as well as the new “connections” section that allows you to monitor and control all aspects of your comments and messages. In this case a picture is worth a thousand words… so let’s take a peak:
Notes of interest:
The new release includes patches to known/report bugs including:
- Problems with uploading images via Adobe Flash Player 9
- importing images from third party software without first uploading an image directly to 72Photos
72Photos is now compatible with the following web browsers:
- Internet Explorer 7
- Firefox 3
72Photos featured in new PixelPipe application
Today we received exciting news from our new friends over at PixelPipe.com. They have developed a new free application that uses our API to upload pictures directly to your 72Photos account and other specified “pipes”.
You’re probably asking yourself, what the heck is a “Pipe”? A Pipe is a destination for your media. For example, you can specify your 72Photos, myspace, flickr, facebook and other services as destinations for your media. You can even enter custom pipes for your own personal blogs.
So what does this mean for you? Simply put, you can upload your media to a single location and have it disbursed to all your favorite social networking sites including 72! They even have a mobile version for the iPhone that allows you to take pics with your phone and instantly share them with your favorite sites!
PixelPipe operates on Windows, OS X, Linux and Mobile platforms. For more information about their application visit their blog.
Screenshot of PixelPipe on the iPhone:
This would probably be a good time to remind our members that we have a slew of plugins that connect your pictures with your own sites.
