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Link Send photos directly to facebook with new Phanfare facebook app

We just improved the integration between facebook and Phanfare. You can now select photos from within an album and publish them directly to facebook. This action will copy the photos to a new facebook album, allowing your friends and family to tag or comment within facebook.

Previously, the facebook Phanfare app would only post external links into your facebook newsfeed. We left this style of publishing as well, for those who like it. The benefit of the old integration was that your facebook friends could see your entire phanfare album with music and description. But the benefit of the new facebook integration is that your facebook friends can tag and comment on images.

Personally, I like the new facebook integration much better because I only publish a small subset of my photos to facebook from Phanfare.

Here are some instructions on using the new Phanfare facebook app. If you have any problems with photos you push winding up in a state where they are waiting to be approved on the facebook side, try deleting the facebook Phanfare app and re-adding it by initiating a send of photos from Phanfare.

We will be adding “push-to-facebook” feature to Phanfare Photon soon for all you iPhone and iPod touch users.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 13th, 2009 at 11:34 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

  • IMGooo81
    I still don't understand how to transfer one photo from my e-mail to fb..please help
  • Raphael Freeman
    This is phantastic! I wish I knew about this before. My only question is why I can't do it from the phanfare app?
  • you can do it from the web version of our app (login at www.phanfare.com) but not from the downloadable mac and pc clients. we may add it if there is sufficient interest.
  • Heather (cameram0m)
    I'm excited for video support to be added!

    I'd like to register my "interest" in seeing this added to the pc client. I strictly use the pc client for uploading and being able to add to facebook from here would negate me having to go into the web version to do it saving me time.

    Thanks!
  • Thanks for this new feature! I want to echo what some other people said about allowing us to add photos to existing Facebook albums. Without that, I'm afraid this isn't too useful to me yet since I typically trickle photos into a Facebook album over the course of a couple of months before starting a new one. Also, will we ever be able to share videos with Facebook this way?
  • videos are on the roadmap. thanks for the feedback.
  • Cool!!! What about comments on my albums from people which don't have phanfare acc?



  • the facebook transfer moves images to facebook. comments and tags added on facebook don't get synched back.
  • Will
    Is it currently even possible, or does FB not allow this?
  • Facebook User
    It's against the Facebook TOS to store any queried information besides certain unique identifiers. Really it wouldn't be technically possible without some sync'ing support on Facebook's side, otherwise Phanfare would have no way of knowing that data on Facebook changed.
  • Will
    Ah... to bad. Thanks for the response.
  • Sue
    I'm excited- I use both so it'll be interesting to see how it works! THANKS!
  • Brian
    This IS cool. What I would like is to able to tag photos with the word facebook on my computer and have those pushed directly to facebook when uploaded. Or maybe when uploading photos using Lightroom, it could just be the ones with 5 stars get pushed to facebook. There has to be a way to do it all in a single step.

    This is great. Like it a lot.
  • thanks for the feedback. we will see how people use it and then tweak it.
  • Kevin Riepl
    Wow, this is just great! thank you for this upgrade...i never liked the old integration, and now I do not need to upload twice to two different sites.
    Great upgrade!!!
  • malhotra81
    Very cool feature...something that I used to do manually until now! Thanks Phanfare!

    Feature Request: Allow photos to be added to an existing album on facebook? My facebook albums are not event-specific but rather time-specific...i.e. summer, winter, etc. So i add a few good pics from each phanfare album to facebook albums. The add to <existing album=""> feature would be great!</existing>
  • Will
    Also, any chance that we could check a box to have a link to the Phanfare album/photo automatically added as a comment to the album/photo? And what about videos? Is there any support for that?

    As you can tell... I'm a little excited about this.
  • Will
    Dang. I didn't realize how fast and smart it was! By the time I clicked 'ok' and got to my Facebook album page, 20 photos were already up and by the time I was finished looking at a few of those, the 3rd new FB album was up.

    Feature Request: Automatically dividing Phanfare with Sections into different (and differently named) Facebook albums. That would be great!
  • Will
    Wow! This is great! I just gave it a try and it works really well. And the best part is that it's done on the back end. I don't have to sit there waiting while my bandwidth is being used up or my computer slows down trying to process the request. I just mark the photos and it happens. Sweet!

    This is definitely an attractive new feature. Just one upload for full-res backups and genuine Facebook import!

    I love the direction this is going. Here's hoping that we'll hear more about further and more steamlined integration. iPhoto '09 plugin?
  • iPhoto 09 is supposed to work...if it does't, we will make it work.

    glad to hear you like it!
  • Will
    Actually I don't have iPhoto '09 yet. What I meant was an iPhoto '09 plugin that could harvest face tags and put them to good use. :)
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