Hello, World!
Hi! We now have a blog setup! This will be a place for us to share our ideas, things we are working on, plans, challenges, rants and whatnot with the world. Woo-hoo! ;)
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Sandhill Cranes of Bosque del Apache
In January 2010 Ian and I went to New Mexico to meet with the group of photographers and shoot some landscapes and some wildlife. Upon arrival to Albuquerque we rented a car and drove down south to a...
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Tobermory in September
Last weekend we went to shoot some landscapes in Tobermory, Ontario. The town itself is small, with some crappy bar near the marina, but there is the Cypress Lake park nearby, which is pretty...
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Monkeys
Just a photo from a trip to the Monkey Island, not too far away from Iquitos, Peru. More photos and a more detailed blog about the trip coming soon :)
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Performance issues
For some time now the 500px traffic has been growing on average 20% a month. Looking at the graphs a couple of months ago I projected that we will need a different hosting service in about 6-8 months....
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Yesterday morning we had a database crash on our hosting on Amazon. It looks like the mounted volume that contained the data got detached from the EC2 instance. This caused the database to stop...
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500px + Downtown Camera
Several days ago we quietly launched a partnership program with Downtown Camera (http://downtowncamera.com) — a photo store in downtown Toronto (just a few blocks from where I live ;). With every...
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1M+
Hi friends! Yesterday we hit another small milestone — 1 million monthly visits to 500px (and approximately 7.5 million page views). Congratulations to all of us (yes, our team and our users of...
View ArticleUpload larger files now
We started 500px a long time ago with the idea that all images had to be 500 pixels wide. The monitors were smaller than (circa 2003?) and it seemed to be the right image size at that point. Lots of...
View ArticleCheating
Recently, we started monitoring our voting activity a little closer. With the user growth we are having, some of the peculiarities of our voting systems become more apparent. One of the things we watch...
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New 500px HQ
On Monday, Apr 25th, we moved to a new office. Our new location is great — we are right at Dundas Square, in the Ryerson Digital Media Zone space — the incubator for young startups started by my and...
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Recommendations
Hi all! We have 'soft launched' the photo recommendations on our photo pages. Check it out, you may discover some more great photos with these suggestions we placed under the comments. Let us know how...
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500px at the Photo Hack Day, August 20-21, NYC
Heya all, It has been a while since I wrote in our blog, my time was mostly consumed by the day to day development and business management. I think I did not do any significant coding this summer...
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Pixel Hack Day: recap
This past weeked 500px hosted our very own, open to everyone, hackathon - Pixel Hack Day. The event was aimed to bring together the creative talent of Toronto, mainly software developers and designers,...
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Some photos from Mexico
Some photos we took during our trip to Mayan Riviera in January 2012.
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