David Pogue of the NY times tackled a subject near and dear to my heart recently: Why do we shoot photos and videos. I come out approximately where he did. That you do it for yourself, and the hope that maybe somebody might be interested in seeing the media in the future.
And it is because […]

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A module on an network switch connecting our servers to the internet failed at 950pm EST. After several attempts to get the switch to operate normally, the switch module was replaced. Phanfare was available at 10:59pm,
Upon analysis, we could have avoided downtown by further replicating some of our network and firewall infrastructure to provide for […]

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We had an outage tonight for about an hour. We don’t yet know exactly what went on, but it looks like a network outage at the datacenter level at our Somerset, NJ datacenter.
Technically, Phanfare was not down; the servers were just hard to reach - as in, impossible. On the bright side, they […]

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We just released a new version of the Phanfare iPhone app that brings rudimentary album and image management to the palm of your hand. From the app you can now:

Edit the album name, description and sharing settings
Add or edit image captions
Save a photo to the iPhone camera roll
assign a photo to someone in your iPhone […]

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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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Apple recently lifted the NDA that prevented us from commenting on the iPhone platform. Practically speaking, that prevented us from saying anything negative. We have already said lots of positive things about the iPhone platform.
Overall, the platform lives up to the hype. The touch interface is ground breaking and the UI sets the bar […]

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In economics 101 you learn that when you interfere with market forces, you disturb the delicate balance of the market. Rent price control creates shortages and diminishes the incentives to renovation apartments; the careful control of the number of medallion taxes and the prices they can charge creates imbalances where there are sometimes a slew […]

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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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We are pleased to announce the introduction of Geotagging support within Phanfare so that you know where photos were taken.
Phanfare records the GPS coordinates of any photo with GPS information in the EXIF header. The process is fully automatic and compatible with cameras that support geotagging of images (such as the iPhone) and with […]

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We released version 1.3 of the Phanfare iPhone App that focuses on rounding out the sharing features available from the application.

You can now add friends and family from the app
You can accept connection requests from the app
Your Phanfare newsfeed, telling you about photos and videos in your circle, is now available from the […]

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