We released a new version of Phanfare today that polishes out some some burrs within Phanfare.
We now properly detect and warn you when you are trying to upload photos or videos that are already uploaded. This is nice little feature. It means that when an upload fails or you need to restart it, you [...]

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We are looking for a super-star technical support representative to work fulltime in our downtown Princeton, NJ office. Full job listing here. Ideal candidate already knows Phanfare in and out

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Our standard referral program offers a 20% discount off the first year to your friends when they signup for Phanfare and the same amount to you in the form of credit. The Phanfare credit can be used on merchandise or for subscription renewals.
All this month, we are doubling that offer to 40%. Hence, if you [...]

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We get quite a few questions on a regular basis about our permissions and sharing model for web albums. In this post, I will attempt to explain how it works, the history of it, and how we plan to simplify it.
There are two separate ways to publish within your Phanfare account. The first way [...]

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Here is new video explaining what makes Phanfare different. We will be adding this to our home page in the coming weeks. Be sure to share it far and wide

You may ask why we hosted it on YouTube. YouTube is about finding an audience for your work. Phanfare is about hosting your photos [...]

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You can now automatically tweet when you publish an album at Phanfare. You just need to associate your Twitter account with your Phanfare account and then choose which Phanfare sites and subsites (pro feature) are covered.
When we tweet an album on your behalf, we tweet the album name and a link through a Phanfare [...]

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We have had our app in the iPhone store for over a year now. The reviews have been consistently positive, although the average rating is only 2.5. Seems like 1/2 the people delete it from their phone, write no review, and give it 1 star. The other half of reviewers give it five stars or [...]

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This is hard post to write, because conventional wisdom is that you don’t announce price increases. But I feel like we are in partnership with our customers and I want to make you aware of what we are doing and why we are doing it.
Over the last few years, we have added high quality merchandise [...]

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We did a quick release today that fixes some bugs in last week’s release:

Links pushed to facebook using the Phanfare Facebook app are fixed
Flash uploader now reads captions properly
Bug where Phanfare did not allow you to authenticate to multiple Phanfare sites simultaneously is fixed
Video from the 3Gs iPhone now converts properly. Note that we still [...]

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Jefferson Graham wrote that we have given up on social networking. This is not exactly true. I believe that social networking is a very engaging way to share with friends. Facebook has excellent tools for keeping in touch with friends, especially distant friends (the weak link).
But what I do believe is that it is not [...]

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