PixVillage Press Release

PixVillage has grown to over 500,000 photos privately shared by its users

December 17, 2004 – Inventors of PixVillage photo sharing software application proudly announces that thanks to a newly released version, users privately share over 500.000 photos. New features will facilitate users sharing personal photo files within private communities, through peer-to-peer (P2P) connections.

New Features
Current software release features multilanguage support and photo formats extension to .BMP, .TIFF, .GIF and .PNG file formats (JPEG already supported). To match many users needs, the PixVillage Team has developed the “PixVillage Translation Manager”, a dedicated tool to write and test a translation. English and French translations are already available, and the team is looking for contributors to translate PixVillage in German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish or any other language.

The new tools also include new icon designs, improved user-interface as well as bandwidth and network activity report capabilities.

“Sharing photos with friends and family is natural once you get 100’s or 1000’s photos in your PC hard-drive. With Christmas holidays approaching, it is a perfect time for photo lovers to use PixVillage and get the best private and unlimited photo sharing experience” says the PixVillage Team. “PixVillage is unique as a free and independent software application dedicated to photo sharing. Matching peer-to-peer (P2P) technology with personal photo files represents the optimal low-cost solution to address web-based photo sharing services critical issues such as bandwidth, network and storage scalabilities.”

PixVillage Community
The PixVillage community is already active through the website forum. Users’ feedbacks are a major commitment for PixVillage to keep its momentum in the marketplace. Users can get updated news by connecting on the PixVillage Blog at www.pixvillage.com/blog

What is Photo Sharing with PixVillage ?
PixVillage is a desktop application where users can share personal photos with friends, family and colleagues.  Users invite and authorize private contacts to see 1000’s of photos they have selected on their hard-drives. They can even share specific photos with each of their contacts. Then PixVillage connects users directly to the PCs of their authorized contacts and transfers automatically photos from PC to PC through a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) photo sharing technology. PixVillage is secure, contains no adware and no spyware.

PixVillage software is available at www.pixvillage.com

About PixVillage
Inventors of the PixVillage software offer personal photo sharing and communications in private networks of friends, family and colleagues. The downloadable application leverages peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to allow private social networks to connect and share personal files privately, directly and in all safety.

To download PixVillage : http://www.pixvillage.com
PixVillage Blog : http://www.pixvillage.com/blog
Press contact : [email protected]