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Piclens Supported

May 12, 2008 – 12:27 pm
So whats different about terasnaps besides face detection and recognition? Willingness to embrace the new and incorporate into the terasnaps environment. I am happy to announce that terasnaps is piclens enabled to give you an immersive photo viewing experience. So go over to piclens and install it for your browser and experience terasnaps images yet in another way.

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Flickr Users Welcome

March 16, 2008 – 5:39 pm
This post is about 3 weeks late, Been very busy with many aspects that blogging seems to have fallen to the side. But, I am happy to report that we have integrated the flickr api into terasnaps as well. Flickr users are welcomed to join and organize thier photo's using the face detection recognition and organization features of terasnaps its FREE. Now any photo of your loved ones is 3-4 click away. best of all its all anonymous familiarity based browsing, so the name of your children "as a tag" will not be available for all to see or for Google to find. Go ahead try us out and see what we mean by anonymous familiarity base photo browsing. Whats Next? Photobucket

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Expanding Our Reach.

March 16, 2008 – 5:26 pm
Terasnaps can now retrieve and process your smugmug photos. One Down, many to go!!!! Over the past couple of weeks, we were busy integrating the API's of photo sharing and hosting sites into the terasnaps system. Our objective is to enable any user of any photo sharing site to seamlessly utilize the terasnaps' facial based image organization. So we look forward to adding support to some of the other major photo sharing sites like flickr, photobucket, picasa and even social sites such as facebook and any other site that we can get permission to use their api. We realize that each person is probably committed to a single photo sharing service. And often, their friends, or other family members, are equally committed to another photo sharing service. Terasnaps' unique facial based image organization feature can now be used by users of different photo sharing sites to process their images seamlessly thereby ...

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Amazon.com S3 Storage Solution for terasnaps

January 30, 2008 – 2:17 pm
For some time now, we have been looking for a solution to our every growing image storage needs. We had always implemented an in-house redundant storage systems to increase fault tolerance and redundancy of the data across multiple servers. But we quickly started to realize that we were spending much too much time configuring hardware and doing routine maintenance and backup issue where the time could be better spent on programing additional services and integrating with outside API's. Additionally, as our data and customer base grew, we started feeling a little uncomfortable about having all the data stored at one facility. As of the publishing of this blog, we have completed our implementation of Amazon.com's S3 storage solution to our site. Without going into all the technical details I am happy to report that now terasnaps users get the same level of security for their photos as the entire amazon.com system ...

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Moving on to a blogging system

January 30, 2008 – 2:14 pm
For those following the news on terasnaps.com, we were publishing our newsletters on a regular basis and keeping our users updated of upgrades, news and new features that we have been constantly adding on. The newsletter was a great way for us to communicate, but in reality, it was a one way communication tool. In the hopes of getting more community participation, we are moving to this blogging method of disseminating information and chronicling the evolution of terasnaps. So stop by from time to time and read about what's going on in our little part of the world wide web. As always, we look forward to your comments. You can also subscribe to the feed here and be informed of any new development as soon as we publish.

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