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Upload Bigger Photos

Tuesday, Mar 8, 2011
by Michael McDonald

Being able to upload, store, and view large (huge, even) photos has always been a unique feature of Worldisround. We’ve been around for more than a decade now, and digitial cameras...

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Worldisround Weekend Outage

Thursday, Jun 24, 2010
by Michael McDonald

On last Thursday morning (June 17), both power supplies in the main server died and Worldisround was unreachable. I ordered a new power supply, which arrived Monday morning and installed...

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Free User Homepage Customization

Friday, May 28, 2010
by Michael McDonald

Now all users have access to the user homepage customization features, which were previously a Premium-only feature. You can now add a homepage...

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Twitter and Facebook Links

Thursday, May 13, 2010
by Michael McDonald

How many of you are actively using social networks and social bookmarking/microblogging services? Which ones do you use?

Recently I’ve been playing with new ways to share (public)...

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Slideshows Everywhere for Premium Users

Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
by Michael McDonald

Here’s another improvement for Premium users: Now you can view slideshows for all articles, not just Premium articles.

Free users can still view slideshows on Premium articles,...

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'View All' is the Default Again

Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009
by Michael McDonald

I have restored the old article layout with all the thumbnails in one page as the default view again. This replaces paging between multiple sets of photos or having to click 'view...

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Photos Being Recovered

Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009
by Michael McDonald

Yesterday I relocated all of the photo servers from a datacenter in Fremont, California to a new datacenter in San Jose. Unfortunately one of the big (2 terabyte) storage arrays died...

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Storage Penalty Dropped

Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009
by Michael McDonald

I have dropped the ‘storage penalty’ and simplified how the personal photo storage limit works on Worldisround. This will only affect a few of you (Free users who have more than 500...

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Worldisround has been acquired...

Thursday, Dec 11, 2008
by Michael McDonald

...by me! (Michael McDonald)

I’ve been so heavily involved with Worldisround that you might be surprised to hear that I wasn’t already the owner....

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