Phanfare Uploads Videos and Photos Directly From Cameras to the Web

May 16, 2007--Online video and photo sharing service Phanfare (www.phanfare.com) today announces new enhancements to their service that simplifies the process of uploading videos and photos to customers’ personal Phanfare Web sites. As customers connect their digital cameras to their computers, a new import wizard moves their videos and photos onto their personal computers for local storage and onto the Phanfare servers for beautiful, private, advertising-free viewing by friends and family on their customized Phanfare Web sites.

“Just in time for summer vacations, Phanfare is introducing new features to make it even easier to organize, store and share videos,” said Andrew Erlichson, Phanfare’s CEO. “Families are taking both videos and photos with their digital cameras. Phanfare lets them manage and share all these memories in a single, private, secure, ad-free environment. Our latest enhancement makes it easier for even novice users by starting from the moment they attach their cameras to their computers.”

With the release of today’s Phanfare update, customers only need to attach their digital camera to their PC or put their memory card into their card reader to initiate the new Phanfare import wizard which automatically launches the Phanfare desktop application and uploads their videos and images to their Phanfare Web site. There is no need for customers to sit by the computer and wait for the upload to finish. And, since Phanfare offers unlimited storage, customers never need to worry that this batch of vacation videos and photos will be the one that exceeds their storage limits. Copies of all videos and photos are also saved to each Phanfare customer’s “My Pictures” folders on their computers. For more information visit: http://support.phanfare.com/doc/Acquire_from_camera

Additional functionality included in this announced update allows Phanfare to work without a network connection. Phanfare subscribers can now be on an airplane returning from vacation, take out their laptops and begin loading their pictures and videos while in transit, just as they have done before from home; they can edit the images and write captions while the memories are still fresh in their mind. When they connect again to the Internet, the Phanfare application will automatically update these changes on their own customized Phanfare Web sites. For more information about this feature visit: http://support.phanfare.com/doc/Working_without_a_connection

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