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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The Phanfare customer survey results are in. An overwhelming majority of you want your own destination URL (yourname.phanfare.com) and optional site passwords.
I am pleased to announce that we have overhauled the Phanfare tools to support simple web hosting of your photos and videos at yourname.phanfare.com. This change will make it easier for you to [...]

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Just returning from CTIA in Las Vegas where we announced that you can now buy prints from within Phanfare Photon using an iPhone or iPod touch. The update is available in the Apple App store now.
We offer a full range of photographic print sizes, printed on matte or glossy paper. There is a shopping cart [...]

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You can now send photos directly to facebook from your Phanfare account using Phanfare Photon on the iPhone. This facility mirrors the feature for facebook transfer already available on the web.
How it works
Launch Phanfare Photon on the iPhone, navigate to any album in your whole collection, then click on the send-to-facebook button. You will [...]

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We are thrilled to announce a new version of the Phanfare iPhone app that improves upon the viewing experience by wirelessly synchronizing and caching your recent albums right on the phone. The viewing experience is buttery smooth, includes videos, and works (for photos) even when the iPhone is in airplane mode.
New photos you take on [...]

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After months of carrying around an iPhone 3G with the 3G turned off because the battery only lasted until 2pm, I eagerly installed the 2.1 iPhone firmware on friday hoping that the tantalizing tidbit in the release notes that battery life might be increased for “some users” would apply to me.
Since then, I have had [...]

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