Howdy guys,

Let's be clear -- when we mean major, that means we're modifying your experience for the better. As we head to further accomodate our service, and possibly expand to a larger userbase, we're looking to let WikiPic fly as high as.. well, it can go. But, we're always taking things one at a time but since we're rolling them out really fast we like to call them "bulk" updates. Like always, here's some more excellent updates for you!

• Whenever you login, all the images you uploaded without an account will become assigned to your newly signed in account.
• Our API is now slightly mitigated between Ferple network and WikiPic network, so it should progress around 10-20% faster.
• We have turned on our beta robots: currently scraping around 1,000/images a day. I'll discuss further into the post.
• The cloud now supports up to the last 250 images uploaded, so you get a better insight of today's uploaded images.
• Minor updates to our server configuration to prevent server hydration, so that we use full resources for heavy loads.
• WikiPic is releasing a new competition soon - win up to $500 and access to our free WikiPic API for life.

WikiPackers 2009

It's always great to introduce something new to our network, and it's called "WikiPackers" which means whoever can help build the most powerful utilization for our API, basically the most innovative application on top of our service. That means, scripts, pages, applications, anything that utilizes our API or service will be considered. Even integrating it in a unique way would be excellent for us to consider you. We'll pay you $500 cash and possibly a free API for life, but we're willing to split the prize with any strong competitiors we believe deserve it, and it can be yours simply by applying and emailing us at "wikipackers2009@wikipic.net" and we'll investigate your app. Closing date is 28th December 2009 (yes, when our API is closed for public beta) and our winner will be chosen on the 29th December 2009, so don't worry, it will definately be some good stuff.

Roboting Technology

Let's be honest, this only has two purposes: to find out image popularity, and to build up our index. It gives a larger advantage to any application that wants to ultimately build on our one-of-a-kind platform.

As soon as WikiPic introduces "mass" analytics, it will one of the most powerful and the "first" real-time image analytics system, that will measure images from the web and will update in real-time based on popular content from popular third parties such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook. WikiPic's fast encoding technology has made it one of the most innovative companies of the year, and we're looking extremely forward to giving such capability to enhance the web and potentially millions of application built to serve anyone.

Lift to server capabilities

If you don't already know, we had a major server outbreak around 30 minutes ago, and received a lot of uploads in a really quick period, maybe some sort of viral effect, I don't really know yet. It would take a while for our statistics to update and officially let us know what happened, but until then, we have upped our server limits to the highest capabilities, so don't expect our database to lag, we'll let it go freely with simply the "down" message rather than ugly server errors. This is hopefully the last we'll see of that, and I'm glad we can do it properly bit-by-bit.

Public API BETA

That's still going strong, and we're looking for the best developer to possibly find a good way to utilize our platform to possibly get hired or receive free credits to permanently build on our platform free. There's tons of opportunities, so build the application that want, and you're absolutely limitless to the capabilities you can go with WikiPic API - especially when our service hits rock top.

We are going to shut it down on the 28th December 2009, ready to expand to new potential levels and letting you know what the world's going for WikiPic.

Finally, here's a list of updates we're working on right now:

• Share articles with users on Facebook,
• A little message for newly uploaded photos, so you are able to get a larger insight.
• We will optimize our platform a bit more, and will also simplify the login process.
• Possibly, a iPhone application where it uploads your photos to the service and pings back data about the imagery.
• Integration with some of the largest web apps.

We'll keep you posted as it comes (don't forget to follow us on Twitter - @wikipic).

Bilawal Hameed,

CEO/Founder of WikiPic