Ipernity

ipernity is a pioneer social network devoted to the long-term sharing and storage of media on the internet that enables its users to build on and enhance their digital heritage over time. photos, videos, documents - ipernity provides its members with the ultimate home for all types of digital content where they can share and publish whatever they want, whenever they want. launched in april 2007, ipernity is currently available in 13 languages and hosts several million documents. in 2008, it was named “best photo sharing site” at the open web awards, a global competition that reviews over 50,000 sites. based in sophia-antipolis, france’s own “silicon valley”, ipernity was founded by christophe ruelle and christian conti, two captains of industry behind such successful french sites as voila.fr (search engine), estat.com (internet audience measurement) and respublica (virtual community).