We've started Stampedia Japanese Version!!!!

We "Stampedia project" are thinking what we can do for the people in Tohoku&Ibaragi damaged from terrible earthquake and TUNAMI. I didn't feel like doing anything myself for several days after the disaster though I don't living in that area. I know it is too early talking about reconstruction, but the days will come for the people in Tohoku and Ibaragi to pursue hope in hobby. So we decided to release Stampedia Japanese version.

To be honest, the language "Japanese " is quite different from the other languages and thus we don't think the translation system we use is enough. We were planning to release Japanese version after the release of some other languages. We've already started French and English in 2009, German & Spanish in 2010. We were just planning to release Russian, Italian and Dutch but now these projects are stopped and we're focusing to Japanese version.

We know the number of stamps exhibited in Stampedia is small, we also know we need more functions. But we also know people in Tohoku and Ibaragi will do their great best to reconstruction in the future. In comparison to their effort, the effort stampedia needed is very small I think.So we have to work hard to improve stampedia much more to all the philatelists in the world.

 

Zoom Stamps

Some stamps have very tiny words in the design. For example, GREAT BRITAIN 1858 Definitive   2p has plate number on it, but very tiny numerals.

With the new released "Stampedia Zoom" , you can now easy to see it like this. you can find number "5" in the scroll work at the sides of the stamp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to use this function, you just click Zoom button on each stamp detail page.

This function will be member only function in the future , but you can use it without registaration for a while.

Zoom button on each stamp detail pages.

It becomes easier to upload image on your blog!

It was very difficult and confusing to upload images on stampedia blog before, however , it became easier like the other blog services.

 

You can see menu button when you write a body of blog.

These menu button is for example , Bold, Italic ,Underline and so on.You can even change font,size and color.

 

This button is needed when you want to upload an image. You can find it at the right end and if you click it , popup window appears like this.

 

Here you can upload images to your blog. Please try!

Stamps Seen Recently

Today we released some functions to stampedia. "Stamps Seen Recently" is one of them and you can see seven stamps seen recently on http://www.stampedia.net/ .

As we make this new functions , we're very encouraged with the fact many stamp detail pages are seen all over the world. It's very happy seeing the top page to see which stamps are seen by someone.



We think this function will be more interesting with some information such as how many seconds before this stamp was seen or from which country these stamps are seen. We also have found some bugs such as no image stamps and sill improve it soon.

Thailand Stamp Catalog on STAMPEDIA

We proudly announce we have released our new catalog and the new country is Thailand.


We call this release as "project Bangkok" just because it's our goal to release this catalog before the begining of Bangkok stamp show "Bangkok 2010".



We changed the system to build Stamp catalog on June and the new system works well.

We can also have time to make this new Thailand catalog better before Bangkok2010.

The improvement of top page!

  

Today we have changed some program of top page.


Our top page was rather slow and I think many Stampedia users don't like it just because it is slow!!!



The reason of slow speed is caused of the speed of blog display program.So we decided to display at top page non-blog area first and after a while blog area appears.Please see the attached two web shots.



This change will help both of user who want to use catalog of certain country and one who want to see blogs.

The contribution page of stamp.

Do you know every stamp page of Stampedia have a contribution page and you can upload the image of your items of the stamp?




As I am collecting stamps of old German states , I contribute some images of my collection of Bergedorf.


http://www.stampedia.net/stamp/catalogue/stamp,45946/



Bergedorf is one of "dead countries" and is a part of Germany now as you know.I especially like the cover because used and covers are much rare than mint/unused stamps in collecting Bergedorf stamps.That is because you can use Bergedorf stamp in very short times (1861 - 1867)

We add stamps of 3 countries to Stampedia

As we have announced , we've just added stamps of UK,Germany and ireland to stampedia.

We are very late for the release but anyway we did.Now you can check 5 countries 43,715 stamps on Stampedia instead of 2 countries 17,475 stamps.



We have alredy found we made some mistake when we uploade image files and you can not see some of them. We have almost all the images of mainland UK,Germany and ireland so we want to improve them in a week this time.

Stampedia ver 0.2 ( project LONDON) has just released.

Finally, we can manage to release Stampedia ver 0.2 .

We named and called this version "project LONDON" because we want to release it before LONDON 2010 philatelic event.



We've started Blog and SNS service today. You can make your philatelic blogs on Stampedia and you can update your stamp items such as used stamps or entire to the France and Monaco catalog.Please try it!



We also think to start stamp catalog of UK , Ireland and Germany soon. They include Old Germany and UK territories of the world such as Falkland isle. , Gibraltar and so on of course.



We've been using twitter for announcing the release of Stampedia but from now on we use this blog for it , so please check it!