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SmugVault - Store everything for next to nothing. - 06/23/2008 09:41 PM

SmugMug has always allowed everyone to upload an unlimited number of web-displayable files - JPEG, GIF, PNG, and MP4 - but to date we haven’t been able to accept the RAW files generated by modern digital cameras. For years our customers have been asking, begging, and pleading for us to let them upload their priceless [...]

Speaking at Velocity next week - 06/19/2008 09:43 PM

photo by: Andrew Tobin I’m thrilled that O’Reilly is putting on a great performance and operations conference, so I’m especially happy to be speaking there. I’m on a great-sounding panel, Success: A Survival Guide. I’m sure you’ll hear about our first few years where, like clockwork on the same days each year, we got [...]

Vote SmugMug at LifeHacker! - 06/12/2008 07:41 PM

I’m really honored that SmugMug made LifeHacker’s Five Best Photo Sharing Web Sites. They have voting open to pick the best - go vote for your favorite!

SmugMug loves OAuth - 06/11/2008 06:12 PM

SmugMug’s API now supports OAuth! We actually rolled out support a few weeks ago, but our documentation has turned into such a mess, I delayed announcing it. Finally, though, I just couldn’t keep quiet - I’m so excited I just had to tell someone! So I’m sorry the docs are all messed up - [...]

iPhone SDK, NDA, and SmugMug - 06/10/2008 01:43 AM

Getting lots of requests about an iPhone app for SmugMug. As you no-doubt know, we’re enormous Apple fans over here, and iPhone fans in particular. Most of the company camped out in line at the Palo Alto store (see stories here and here), we were the first photo sharing app with an iPhone [...]

SkyNet Lives! (aka EC2 @ SmugMug) - 06/03/2008 06:28 PM

Everyone knows that SmugMug is a heavy user of S3, storing well over half a petabyte of data (non-replicated) there. What you may not know is that EC2 provides a core part of our infrastructure, too. Thanks to Amazon, the software and hardware that processes all of your high-resolution photos and high-definition video [...]

Delta Airlines has terrible customer service - 05/12/2008 08:28 PM

photo by: Local Sports Online My poor little sister just got totally destroyed by awful Delta employees. She was trying to fly cross-country for the first time with her 4 month old baby. Disaster ensued, and Delta totally blew the customer service. Money quote? “I asked [the supervisor] if she cared that I [...]

MySQL and the Linux swap problem - 05/02/2008 03:25 AM

Ever since Peter over at Percona wrote about MySQL and swap, I’ve been meaning to write this post. But after I saw Dathan Pattishall’s post on the subject, I knew I’d better actually do it. There’s a nasty problem with Linux 2.6 even when you have a ton of RAM. No [...]

We’re Hiring: CSS Zen Master - 04/30/2008 08:44 PM

photo by: Jean-Yves Have you reached stylesheet Nirvana? Are you the designer people go to for a fresh, clean, gorgeous look? Have I got the dream job for you! Come build beautiful stuff that millions of people all over the world can enjoy. We’re private, profitable, growing fast - and you could be a [...]

I demand video to be awesome. - 04/26/2008 02:17 AM

Sam “Shizam” Nichols, creator of the video player, donning his SmugMug Hero persona. See it in HD. The state of video codecs online has been a mess and there’s been no clear choice, making it very difficult to do awesome video sharing. Luckily, all of that changed when Adobe finally added H.264 support to [...]