Changelog (Historical)
10/05/07
- Testing a new search engine rebuild.
- Implemented SVG -> PNG conversion. Now SVG images are displayed inline.
- Improved our thumbnailing engine. Now supporting larger resolution images.
- Implemented a revised search engine featuring more returned results and better secondary search suggestions.
- Integrated the Wiki Commons "Picture of the Day" (POTD)
- Added two new Zazzle products: Custom Printed Bags and T-Shirts
- Implemented Yahoo! Maps for geo-coded photographs
- Integrated Zazzle for custom printed products and stickers ... even stamps. (Create one-of-a-kind products from our library of stock phtoography.)
- Public Beta testing new display: Recent Comments
- Improved handling of user pages.
- Implemented more improvements to our "wiki" parser
- Public Beta testing new feature: Comments (Public and Private). Use your existing Yahoo! ID to publicly or privaetley comment on your favorite photographs. (Hint: After you login, view an image license and look for the small icon below the thumbnail.)
- Implemented improved "wiki" parser
- Public Beta testing new feature: Lightbox. Use your existing Yahoo! ID to store your favorite images in an easy to use lightbox. (Hint: After you login, view an image license and look for the small icon below the thumbnail.)
- Public Beta testing new feature: Implicit Tagging. View our new Popular Tags or try searching for a Specific Tag.
- Implemented an "offensive search/tag" filter.
- Clean existing "offensive search/tag" data from our databases
- Beta testing new features: Commenting, Lightboxes and Tagging (Explicit/Implicit)
- Implemented a brand new thumbnailing system
- Added "color search" v1 using jquery
- Added "cron" based thumbnailing/color-indexing system
- Reworked code to reduce database calls.
- Implemented "search" v3
- Implemented AJAX "search translations" using "Wiktionary Translate" from Trynt/Wiktionary.
- Added
threefive new dedicated thumbnail servers (for a total offoursix thumbnail machines in round robin).
- Implemented Amazon S3 for thumbnail storage.
- Added "Wiktionary Related" from Trynt/Wiktionary for badly performing searches.
- Optimized "search" feature.
- Optimized "color swatch" feature.
- Implemented Zend Optimizer on the dedicated thumbnail server.
- Migrated hosting to Media Temple Grid-Server.
- Added thumbnail support for GIF format images.
- Added a dedicated thumbnail server.
- Snipshot integrated for "online image editing."
- Introduced "user" display pages.
- ShutterFly integrated for image printing.
- Introduced a Popular Search display.
- Squashed bug preventing certain category pages from rendering properly.
- Redesigned the "search" process. Search results now include images, categories and potential search suggestions. To improve our search function we are now using MSN and IceRocket data (in addition to Yahoo).
- Added "Search Suggestions" from Google/Trynt for badly performing searches
- Reconfigured Odin Assemble for maximum performance.
- Revised license page display to include image dimensions and "color swatch" feature.
- Introduced localized thumbnails for all PNG and JPG images. (Pages should load much faster now :))
