Blog Archive
05.07.2023
Significant changes to our main app navigation
At Fluxiom, we are committed to improving and enhancing your user experience continually. We're excited to unveil some significant changes to our main app navigation. Our team has been hard at work... Read more →
12.04.2023
Introducing the new mobile-friendly share and Stages features
We are excited to introduce revamped versions of our Share and Stages features. Now, both of these features are fully mobile-friendly, making it even easier for you and your team members to share a... Read more →
26.04.2022
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 stages will be automatically updated. Now the... Read more →
02.02.2022
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 them individually or all at once. Login ... Read more →
27.11.2020
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 find the files you’re looking for. Today ... Read more →09.12.2019
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 customers to keep their data organised and u... Read more →
09.09.2019
Online-Payment Security with Strong User Authentication (SCA)
With the entry into force of the PSD2 Guidelines on 14 September 2019, the European Banking Authority is calling for a higher level of security for all transactions, including payment transactions ... Read more →
30.08.2019
Improve your business & secure your assets!
How you can improve your business with Fluxiom! Detailed information on the forthcoming Strong Customer Authentication for Europe! *How you can improve your business with Fluxiom! Detail... Read more →04.06.2018
Fluxiom introduces object & scene detection for your images!
With this new feature Fluxiom can detect and recognise objects, people and scenes in your images for better search results. Thanks to Nik MacMillan, Holly Mandarich, Julie Macey and Shea Rouda fo... Read more →
17.04.2018
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 a brief description of what we added to... Read more →26.02.2018
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 Fluxiom, our digital asset management servi... Read more →04.07.2016
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 platform is now live, and the service has... Read more →
28.01.2016
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 peek into your photos, videos, and PDFs: ... Read more →14.01.2016
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 streamers and silly string. For 2016, we... Read more →
29.07.2015
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 perfect starting point for automated workflows... Read more →
27.07.2015
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 badge right in front of their filename T... Read more →
20.07.2015
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 management interface, all carefully designed to e... Read more →
08.06.2015
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 search and manage your Assets without missing... Read more →
12.05.2015
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 over the wire. It is, also, the technology... Read more →
08.01.2015
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, including Search and Tags, the view itself has ... Read more →
25.11.2014
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, we are introducing important refinemen... Read more →
20.11.2014
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 that the Fluxiom Account Holder necessarily... Read more →
05.11.2014
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 includes sanding away any rough edges tha... Read more →
17.10.2014
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, in the right circumstances, lead to the d... Read more →16.10.2014
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 expandable, it is ideal for early drafts, quick ... Read more →06.10.2014
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 computing news at the moment, we’re holding... Read more →
09.04.2014
How we reacted to the Heartbleed Bug to protect our customers
As widely reported, an exploit known as OpenSSL HeartBleed CVE was discovered on April 7th. An attacker who exploits the heartbleed vulnerability would have access to the contents of server memory,... Read more →04.03.2014
New feature: self-serve, consolidated logins in Stages
Fluxiom has been designed to help large teams share large files with large groups of people, and our secure Stages are central to this mission. Many of you have created dozens of Stages, and handed... Read more →
09.02.2014
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 your account, and how advanced your crite... Read more →
30.11.2013
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 giving them access to a shared folder... Read more →12.02.2013
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 fundamentally change how you interact with the a... Read more →
19.09.2012
Flux' from your iPad more efficiently than ever
iPad users, rejoice! We are thrilled to announce that the Fluxiom Uploader works nicely on iOS 6. On the uploader page, tap the +Add Files button to bring up a native pop-over with direct acces... Read more →08.08.2012
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 sent us we send you back, in a ZIP arch... Read more →
14.05.2012
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 the most sense: we mail links and updates... Read more →30.11.2011
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 experience. Share large files like videos or ... Read more →
26.09.2011
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 troubles for some of you, and we really regr... Read more →
03.08.2011
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 improvements, we introduced pagination for ... Read more →05.07.2011
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 features previously reserved for the nati... Read more →
10.05.2011
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 Store. Upload files and folders ri... Read more →
19.04.2011
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 became a buzzword, and it pushed the boundarie... Read more →
31.03.2011
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. For companies large and sma... Read more →
31.01.2011
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 patience while we continue to improve flu... Read more →10.01.2011
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, their portability and always-on Internet ... Read more →18.08.2010
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. Every year for nine days, at the beginning... Read more →
11.08.2010
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 in expansive photo-shoots or simply wish... Read more →
22.07.2010
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 custom solutions or existing Web 2.0 app... Read more →
24.06.2010
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 its growth, we are retiring this particul... Read more →
22.06.2010
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 your existing workflows at all. All acc... Read more →
10.02.2010
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 ease your users into the crazy concept ... Read more →
02.02.2010
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 enhancing our code to ensure the smoothest rid... Read more →
26.01.2010
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 small, but significant change to video p... Read more →
12.01.2010
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 esteemed clients: Endless scrolling ... Read more →
24.11.2009
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 your data. This means previews are gene... Read more →
09.10.2009
We just started re-generating all thumbnails
The service is fully available during the re-generation of the thumbnails, without restriction, but you may notice that your thumbnails are replaced by generic “file type” icons. This is no cause ... Read more →
29.09.2009
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 servers will be sprung into action. Among... Read more →
07.09.2009
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 lines, replaced by inline editing and cle... Read more →
25.08.2009
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 Internet Explorer 8, the latest and greatest ad... Read more →
18.08.2009
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 unveil its very first iPod. As for fluxiom... Read more →30.07.2009
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 account and download files with just one cli... Read more →
13.07.2009
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, and it focuses on methodically answering ... Read more →08.07.2009
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 news for you. Effective to-day… All pay... Read more →
11.06.2009
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 post a read: the test cases and descripti... Read more →
10.06.2009
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 contains a significant number of security enha... Read more →
04.06.2009
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. Like most dedicated graphic designers, Bas... Read more →
14.05.2009
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 access to the full fluxiom catalogue, b... Read more →
14.04.2009
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 to improve fluxiom for you. Be the first ... Read more →
17.03.2009
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 individual. We call this system fluxiom sa... Read more →02.03.2009
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 account. No more cluttered inboxes and say goo... Read more →
10.02.2009
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 fluxiom are thrilled to work with Casinos... Read more →
06.12.2008
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 continue to improve fluxiom for you. Be the fir... Read more →
05.12.2008
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 the board, in all parts of the interface.... Read more →
01.12.2008
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 to do things well. When it comes to storin... Read more →01.12.2008
fluxiom introduction video
We made a new introduction video we are very proud of, please have a look: Read more →27.11.2008
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. Before, fluxiom showed your Office ... Read more →
26.11.2008
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 fluxiom account you instantly gain the full st... Read more →
16.10.2008
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 to happen on: Monday, October 27, 2008 at ... Read more →
08.10.2008
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 look up the status on our status page: st... Read more →
26.09.2008
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 happen on: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 8am GMT... Read more →
19.08.2008
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 proud to introduce today ImageGeisha ou... Read more →
19.08.2008
Update: improved Interface, ZIP download and branding
Today we launched a set of improvements, some interface refinements are obvious but there were also a bunch of under the hood refinements. Improved Tag and Share panel Manage tags menu is now... Read more →
11.06.2008
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 now get 1 GB (up from 300 MB) Basic plans now... Read more →28.03.2008
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 uploads to your fluxiom account and with ju... Read more →
28.11.2007
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 in the free 10.4.11 software update. There ... Read more →
17.10.2007
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 fluxUp! today. Next to some under the ho... Read more →
05.10.2007
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 add branding information to the account ... Read more →
13.09.2007
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 we’ve worked hard to relaunch it in new ... Read more →
27.07.2007
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 timeframe fluxiom may not be reachable. Update do... Read more →
10.07.2007
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 filenames correctly in your browser and they ... Read more →
24.04.2007
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 a two-step process that provides two majo... Read more →
27.02.2007
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. Thanks for your patience! Update: all do... Read more →
30.11.2006
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 very easy to upload local files by dragg... Read more →
21.11.2006
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 be a little slow for a few hours. We are on... Read more →
08.11.2006
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 prevents having to make myriads of telephone calls,... Read more →02.08.2006
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 page for more information and downloading... Read more →
19.06.2006
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. Details Panel: design refresh, improved interfa... Read more →13.06.2006
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.railsday2006.com Read more →
03.05.2006
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 product. I’d even go so... Read more →
19.04.2006
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 sign-up or cancellation fees, and no long-... Read more →
18.04.2006
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! :) Read more →
04.04.2006
better be prepared
fluxiom requires a screen resolution of at least 1024x768, or higher. ;) Read more →
31.03.2006
fluxiom receives honorable mention at Web 2.0 Awards
fluxiom received an honorable mention in the Content Aggregation and Management category. Note that no winners were declared in his category— probably because web-based asset management solutions ... Read more →
22.03.2006
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! :) Right now we have over 200 users in this ... Read more →
22.03.2006
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 as well as feature descriptions and other ... Read more →For system status & updates follow us on X →