Phanfare
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Phanfare is an online service introduced by Phanfare, Inc in November 2004 offering consumers subscription-based photo sharing and video sharing across the world wide web. The company was founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich.
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[edit] Overview
Phanfare is targeted at consumers looking to share photos and video without advertising. Consumers can upload their digital photos and videos to Phanfare. Friends and family can then view the photos and video from any web browser. Phanfare integrates address book and invitation tools to allow the consumer to efficiently send out invitations to view albums. Phanfare backs up and holds original fullsize images centrally, allowing the consumer to retrieve their original digital assets in the event that they lose their local copy. Aside from providing consumers a destination web site of their digital photos free of advertising of branding, Phanfare aims to significantly improve the consumer workflow behind digital photography and video.
[edit] Uploading of photos and videos
Phanfare distributes a photo and video organizing program called Phanfare Photo (PC and Mac compatible) that uploads photos and video in the background while the consumer adds captions, edits and organizes his the content. Phanfare Photo overlaps productive user work with network latency, giving users the perception of faster uploads. Phanfare can import JPEG, Adobe Photoshop PSD images as well as AVI, QuickTime, WMV and MPEG-2 movies.
[edit] Licensing
Phanfare is licensed for consumer use. As of July 2006, there are no storage limits but consumers are limited to 10GB of upstream and 15GB of downstream network traffic per month.
[edit] Revenue model
Phanfare derives its revenue from subscription fees directly from consumers. They also allow printing through Shutterfly, Ofoto and Snapfish.
[edit] System requirements
As of August 2006, it requires either Microsoft Windows or MacOSX, other operating systems like Linux are not supported.
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[edit] References
Phanfare has been noted by the Wall Street Journal for its novel approach to video sharing (Family Movies Find New Home On the Web, July 5 2005) and its media retention policies (The Downside of Photo Storage Sites, 1 February 2006). The ideas for cache-coherent synchronization of photos and videos to a local application cache can be traced by to work in Cache Coherence in shared memory Multiprocessing.
