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SmugMug is a Editor's Choice, Mar 16 , 2004 .
HISTORY Chris MacAskill (father) and Don MacAskill (son) started the original company to build a new Video Game -oriented web service in February 2002. By August 2002, though, their focus shifted. A small portion of their video game Website was spun into a full-blown Photo Sharing service called SmugMug, which officially launched in November 2002. Prior to SmugMug, Chris was the founder and CEO of fatbrain.com, which he sold to Barnes And Noble . His son, Don, was the first non-founding employee at Best Internet, where he designed the networks that hosted Hotmail , EBay , and Fatbrain . FEATURES
STORAGE 60%, or 100 Terabytes , of photos are stored on the Amazon S3 service Byte and Switch . PRIVACY AND SECURITY SmugMug has options to allow control over the privacy and security of published photos. They have support for both account-level and gallery-level passwords, as well as hidden galleries. There is also a friends and family Social Networking interface for members of the service to use, which allows sharing of photos limited to people known to the publisher. PRINTING SmugMug conducted a blind test of a variety of consumer and professional grade printing labs before choosing EZ Prints. The results of this test can be found here . They offer a selection of both prints and gifts, including various print sizes, t-shirts, mugs, mousepads, and the like. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES In conjunction with their print service, SmugMug has created a service aimed at professional Photographer s. Professional accounts have the ability to add custom Watermark s to their photos and add additional forms of image protection. They can also sell prints and digital downloads of their photos through the SmugMug interface with their own custom pricing. REFERENCES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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