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2026

February 16

The new Fluxiom is live

The refresh we previewed in January is now live for all accounts. Here’s what’s new. A leaner, faster Fluxiom The entire interface has been rebuilt. Faster...

January 30

A before-and-after look at the refresh

Fluxiom turns 20 this year. We used the occasion to tidy up a bunch of rough edges: fewer clicks, smoother uploads, quicker stage management, and a simple ac...

January 19

What's coming to Fluxiom

Your Fluxiom account will soon receive a visual refresh. Everything you know and rely on stays the same — your assets, tags, stages, and workflows are all pr...

January 16

The quiet rebuild

We’re rebuilding Fluxiom’s foundation. Not to reinvent it, and not as a cleanup exercise — but to make it easier to change things without breaking what peop...

2025

2023

2022

April 26

Email Notifications for stages available

Give your partners, clients or co-workers quick and easy access to your up-to-date assets. Everytime you add assets with the selected tags, all related stage...

February 2

New share preview available

Our new feature to share your assets is available! You can now preview shared assets from your colleagues and friends in the new Share panel, then download ...

2020

November 27

Search in Fluxiom just got more powerful

One thing our customers enjoy in Fluxiom is how to organise and filter files using tags. With just one click you can narrow down search results and quickly f...

2019

December 9

Group your Fluxiom tags with colours

With colours you can organise all your assets at once - just define the tag color! Some of our customers do have many tags to organise. We help our custom...

2018

April 17

Fluxiom is now GDPR compliant

With the upcoming EU Data Regulation (GDPR) in May 25th, 2018 we are glad to inform you that Fluxiom already complies with this regulation. Please find below...

February 26

Fluxiom is getting GDPR ready

With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, DSGVO in German) which will come into effect on May, 25 2018, we are right in the process of preparing Flu...

2016

July 4

Fluxiom is changing, starting today

A few weeks ago, we shared our plans to upgrade Fluxiom to a brand new platform featuring cutting-edge hardware and industry-leading connectivity. This pla...

January 28

New Preview Pop-Over

Fluxiom’s quick and easy previews are the best way to drill into large file collections. Today, we are introducing a dramatically simpler and faster way to p...

January 14

Full steam ahead in 2016

Brand-new Macs about to join their many siblings in the data centre. Think integration day, for computers. Some people ring in the new year with party str...

2015

July 29

Up they go, there you go

The Uploader is Fluxiom’s unsung hero, enabling you to import assets into your accounts from the comfort of a native OS X application. It is also the perfe...

July 27

Helping you find new files

The Assets View is the core of your Fluxiom account. It refreshes in real time, displaying files as they come in. Freshly uploaded files now bear a green ...

July 20

A zippier user manager

Knowing whom you share your data with, and how, is central to the Fluxiom experience. Today, we are happy to announce deep improvements to our user managemen...

June 8

A faster, fresher Fluxiom

They say God is in the details. Simplicity certainly is, and we just introduced two changes to the Fluxiom interface that should make it much easier to searc...

May 12

Stronger crypto, better security

TLS is the magic crypto-dust that keeps your data safe while it travels over the Internet. It is the technology that your bank uses to secure transactions ov...

January 8

Sort it out — on Fluxiom

The Assets view is the heart of Fluxiom, and almost everything you do on the platform starts there. Because there are many ways to filter your files, includi...

2014

November 25

Simpler sharing has landed

Email is — and remains — a pillar of modern collaboration. This is why Fluxiom has always made it easy to mail assets to the recipients of your choice. Today...

November 20

Introducing improved invoicing settings

We are proud to announce two small improvements to Fluxiom’s invoicing settings. 1) Invoices can now be sent to a dedicated email address. It used to be ...

November 5

A smoother, more efficient Fluxiom

Better Tags management, improved search, and a refreshed interface have come to Fluxiom today. We are committed to making Fluxiom the best it can be, which i...

October 17

Woof! Your data is safe from POODLE

If you keep an eye on computing news, you have no doubt heard about POODLE. If you haven’t, suffice it to say that it is a security vulnerability that can, ...

October 16

Contact sheets have finally come to Fluxiom

Digital asset management may be the way of the future, but the humble sheet of paper remains surprisingly useful. Cheap, unbreakable, and infinitely expandab...

October 6

We’ve had a little work done

The more you use Fluxiom, the better it gets. Today, we are introducing two small updates, to help you work in greater comfort. With so much happening in com...

February 9

New feature: Tags in Stages

Tags are a key ingredient in the Fluxiom formula. Tagging files makes it easy to drill right down to the documents you are looking for, no matter how large y...

2013

November 30

Upload files automatically to Fluxiom

Uploading photos to your Fluxiom account in real time could dramatically cut down on the energy and time you spend collecting feedback from your clients. By...

February 12

Two small improvements to notifications

In the spirit of continuous, steady improvement, we are happy to announce two tweaks to how Fluxiom notifies you of important events. These will not fundamen...

2012

August 8

Improvements to the data export feature

Fluxiom never locks you in: our data export feature enables you to download the last version of all your stored assets at the click of a button. Whatever you...

May 14

Improved email delivery for all users

Fluxiom is a wonderful way to avoid email overload, especially when collaborating with others. Email is still part of the experience, though, when it makes t...

2011

November 30

Fluxiom becomes more iPad friendly

With the latest update we’ve made Fluxiom more finger friendly. More and more customers are using the iPad on a daily basis so we wanted to improve the exper...

September 26

Fluxiom remembers you (again)

We have rolled out an update that fixes an issue with the Remember Me functionality. The old “Remember me” function was not working properly and caused tr...

August 3

More API improvements

We just launched an update to the Fluxiom API that brings some big performance improvements, making response times significantly faster. As part of these im...

July 5

Call it The Uploadinator

Ok, we are, admittedly, just kidding. Still, we have been hard at work to renew the entire file upload interface in Fluxiom. Built from scratch we included f...

May 10

Fluxiom Uploader hits the Mac App Store

Say hello to the new Fluxiom Uploader… We are delighted to announce that Apple just approved our brand-new Fluxiom Uploader for inclusion in the Mac App...

April 19

Happy Fluxday!

Five years ago, to the day, Fluxiom was born out of a desire to share photos and mock-ups with our clients. It was an experiment in Web 2.0 before it becam...

March 31

Fluxiom and the Chrome Web Store

To further help our users in making the cloud a reality in their workflow, we are now making Fluxiom available as an application in the Chrome Web Store....

January 31

Maintenance ahead

Fluxiom will be unavailable for around 60 minutes on Sunday, February 6, 2011, 9:15am GMT (view in your timezone) for system maintenance. Thanks for your pat...

January 10

Using Fluxiom on iPad & iPhone

Two finger scrolling on the iPad (or iPhone) An ever-increasing number of Fluxiom users are accessing their account from an iPad or an iPhone. In fact, thei...

2010

August 18

When theatre walks down the streets

Festival organisers started using Fluxiom to upload, distribute and archive the avalanche of photographs that help publicise and document the event. Eve...

August 11

Geo-location lands in Fluxiom

Starting today, Fluxiom will automatically expose location data stored within your files. Whether you are an enthusiast geocacher, document town and country...

July 22

Announcing our souped-up API

At Fluxiom, we strongly believe in the power of APIs and application integration. By integrating Fluxiom with other web-based services, be they your own cu...

June 24

Saving Private Fluxiom

Since we launched Fluxiom, our Private plan has been an affordable way for users to start using the essentials of the service. Today, as Fluxiom continues ...

June 22

Share in the fast lane

Fasten your seat belts! We just launched a bunch of under-the-hood improvements to speed up the sharing and downloading features in fluxiom, without changing...

February 10

It's better with a partner

If you haven’t yet used Fluid, it’s a great way to keep fluxiom open and available all the time, independently from your browser tabs. It’s also a way to e...

February 2

We now support Google Chrome

We are glad to announce we now officially support Google Chrome, meaning we have gone through the system with a fine-tooth comb, tweaking, testing and enhanc...

January 26

Do more, brand more, flux' more

Branding: Personalize the appearance of your fluxiom account. Today, we are delighted to introduce further speed-ups, a smarter branding system, and a sma...

January 12

New year, new features

A new year, a new fluxiom! In-between the eggnog and the chocolates, our developers sneaked in a few hours of hard work, as a surprise New Year gift to our e...

2009

November 24

The “f” is for speed

The thumbnail and preview generation process is now completely separate from the upload process. We have multiple Image Geishas working in parallel to handle...

September 29

Downtime ahead

On October 9 at 10:00 AM Vienna time (see in your time zone), our administrators will take fluxiom into maintenance mode for two hours, during which new se...

September 7

Keeping tabs on tags

Today, we are happy to announce a slight, but noticeable, update to the tags management view: gone are the multi-step tag updating procedures and the mute ...

August 25

We now support IE8

As we are planning to phase out support for the grandfather of Explorers, Internet Explorer 6, we are delighted to announce we now officially support Interne...

August 18

We are phasing out IE6 support

Do you remember the launch of Internet Explorer 6? The month was August 2001. The commercial Internet was starting to really heat up, and Apple had yet to un...

July 30

We've got Dashboard abs

Dashboard users rejoice, for an updated fluxiom widget is awaiting you. The Dashboard widget allows you to keep track of the activities in your fluxiom acc...

July 13

A new plan for freelancers

If you are a fluxiom-loving freelancer, we are delighted to announce our best value ever. It’s a new plan, it has been crafted just for you a few days ago, a...

July 8

We can’t stop storing ourselves

If you have ever felt your fluxiom account get tight around the waist, or were reluctant to sign up for fear of bumping over our maximum quota, we have huge ...

June 11

Thanks, WebWorkerDaily!

Imagine our surprise this morning when an article popped up recommending a brand we are all familiar with! If you haven’t yet, we encourage you to give the p...

June 10

Welcome, Safari 4.0 users

We are happy to announce that fluxiom is fully compatible with Safari 4.0 already, and that users can upgrade without worry. In fact, since Safari 4.0 contai...

June 4

Bastian Allgeier is fluxin'

Bastian is a student of web and graphic design in Mannheim, Germany. Today, he uses fluxiom to organise and back-up data on our advanced storage platform. Li...

May 14

Do the (user) shuffle

Some of our users have been asking for a new feature in fluxiom: the ability to create read-only users, who could be allowed into a fluxiom account and given...

April 14

Scheduled maintenance

Fluxiom will be unavailable for around 30 minutes on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 7am GMT for system maintenance. Thanks for your patience while we continue ...

March 17

fluxiom safe store

Keeping your data safe and available — Our storage system makes personal backups a thing of the past by going miles beyond what is available to any single in...

March 2

Introducing the Fluxiom Inbox

The Fluxiom Inbox allows you to setup and customize an upload-only page through which people can send you files and documents directly to your fluxiom accoun...

February 10

fluxiom and the enterprise

While smaller agencies and individuals have jumped freely on the Web 2.0 bandwagon, adoption rates are markedly slower in the enterprise. That’s why we at ...

2008

December 6

Scheduled maintenance

Fluxiom will be unavailable for around 30 minutes on Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 6am GMT for system maintenance. Thanks for your patience while we contin...

December 5

Tag like you have never tagged before

We just updated the tagging in fluxiom: Whenever you add, rename or remove tags from your fluxiom account, changes will now immediately be reflected across t...

December 1

Introducing fluxiom's Free plan

We heard you loud and clear and we are very proud to introduce fluxiom’s first Free plan. Free means free forever, no strings attached. We at fluxiom like t...

November 27

Update: Office 2007/2008 support

We are proud to announce that fluxiom now generates thumbnails and previews for Office 2007 (PC) and Office 2008 (MAC) file formats like PPTX, DOCX and XLSX....

November 26

trial period: no more storage limits

We are proud to announce that today we dropped the storage limitation within the 30-days-free-trial period. This means that after signing up for a new fluxio...

October 16

Scheduled Maintenance (part 2)

We will be performing maintenance on fluxiom’s infrastructure, which will require us to take down the servers for up to one hour. The scheduled outage is t...

October 8

fluxiom status stream

We just setup a Twitter stream for fluxiom at twitter.com/fluxiom were we will post status updates and occasional links to interesting posts. You can also...

September 26

Scheduled Maintenance

We will be performing maintenance on fluxiom’s infrastructure, which will require us to take down the servers for one hour. The scheduled outage is to happ...

August 19

Introducing ImageGeisha

She is fast, she is light weight and she is at your service, we are proud to introduce today: We revamped the whole imaging and preview processing, and we’re...

June 11

More storage space for the same price

Next to some under-the-hood improvements we launched an update last week and increased the file storage space for all fluxiom plans. Private plans n...

March 28

Introducing the fluxiom widget

Downloading assets from your fluxiom account has never been so easy! With the new fluxiom widget it is easy to keep track of the activities and new file up...

2007

November 28

Safari 3 support

With the latest refinements and improvements we launched today fluxiom now officially supports Safari 3 for Mac. Safari 3 for Mac OS X Tiger is included i...

October 17

fluxUp! now brandable

fluxUp! is our free desktop tool that allows you to upload files to your fluxiom account with drag-and-drop ease. We are proud to announce a new version of f...

October 5

fluxiom API Update Part 1

We are constantly improving fluxiom and today we announce some improvements to the API. On October 15 we will deploy a new version of the API which will a...

September 13

fluxiom website update

fluxiom comes with an awesome interface and lots of UI effects. So, it’s logical that the fluxiom web site could use a little bit more visual eye candy, and ...

July 27

Maintenance: Monday, July 30

fluxiom will be under maintenance on Monday, July 30. It will take place beginning at 10am CEST, and should take no more than 2 hours. During this timefram...

July 10

Different countries, different characters

fluxiom now offers built-in support for international filenames. Whether it’s japanese Kanji, simplified Chinese or any alphabet, fluxiom will display file...

April 24

Maintenance: Wednesday, May 2

fluxiom will be offline on Wednesday, May 2. Maintenance will take place beginning at 10am CEST, and should take no more than 3 hours. This is step one of...

February 27

fluxiom maintenance

fluxiom will be offline for about 2 hours starting at 08:45 am GMT, Wednesday, March 7, 2007. We are on top of it to keep disruptions as short as possible....

2006

November 30

fluxUp! for Mac! Now available.

The fluxUp! free desktop upload tool is now also available for Mac OS X (Universal). Head over to the fluxiom tools page for download. fluxUp! makes it ve...

November 21

Scheduled maintenance notice

We will maintenance our fluxiom servers on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 08:00 am GMT for about 3 hours. There will be no downtime but the servers may b...

November 8

review in PAGE magazine

Fluxiom was reviewed in PAGE magazine! “Next to the well-thought-of features, the intuitive user interface shines. […] In daily routine, fluxiom prevent...

August 2

fluxUp! desktop upload tool

The fluxUp! free desktop upload tool is now available in beta for Windows 2000 and XP, with a Mac OS X version coming soon. Head over to the new tools pag...

June 19

new: video preview, UI refreshments

We just launched the following new features: Video preview: fluxiom now supports previewing video formats like MPEG, MP4, AVI, Quicktime and others....

June 13

Rails Day '06

Mark your calendars - June 17 wollzelle supports Rails Day 2006 with five half-year fluxiom Pro accounts for Rails Day winners. For more details visit www...

May 3

Fluxiom gets rave reviews

Here’s a collection of quotes from Fluxiom reviews from around the web. Fluxiom, based in Vienna, is a first rate online storage and file management prod...

April 19

fluxiom unleashed

wollzelle unleashed fluxiom. Risk-free hands-on: With the 30-day free trial that’s included with each plan, you can try fluxiom instantly. There are no sig...

April 18

review at thinkvitamin.com

There’s a great review of fluxiom to be found on Vitamin, done by Peter Nixey, an independent reviewer. We got a 4 out of 5 rating, not too bad! :)

April 4

better be prepared

fluxiom requires a screen resolution of at least 1024x768, or higher. ;)

March 24

mockup

Lesson learned: pixel perfect mockups are time consuming ;)

March 22

World-wide fluxin'

Here’s a map of where our private beta users are using fluxiom. They are putting fluxiom through its paces. A big thanks to them, you know who you are! :)...

March 22

The fluxiom blog

Welcome to the fluxiom blog, where all things fluxiom are discussed! Over the course of the next few weeks, you’ll find some behind the scenes information a...

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