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By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:57:57 +0000

Spotted a bug: it’s serving up a weekday schedule, even though today is Saturday. Other than that, I think it’s awesome! This will come in so handy when I am taking the Caltrain up to TehSpace.

By: CocoaRadio interview posted at FactoryCity

CocoaRadio interview posted at FactoryCity — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:41:12 +0000

[...] o took place over a month ago, which makes some of the information obsolete (I wrote about cloning APIs here). On the other hand, I do talk fairly expa [...]

By: Pehuen

Pehuen — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:27:10 +0000

Flock llego!!! Chao Firefox??

No se si podrÃamos llamarlo competencia o complemento, pero este nuevo browser (navegador) llamado Flock tiene aplicaciones absolutamente increÃbles!!, integra Flickr y Delicious + la base mozilla creando sistema sÃºper amistoso para crear contenido (c

By: James Walker

James Walker — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 04:47:32 +0000

i hear you dude. *loud* and clear.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:27:36 +0000

@Robert: Exactly. But I would recommend something a little richer than the delicious API — something that maybe has privacy and a mechanism for synching… There’s been talk of something like a atom based API — I’ll have to find the link…

@Matt: Almost like blogging the cat.

@Ian: looking forward to it.

By: Ian McKellar

Ian McKellar — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:08:58 +0000

Gallery has had a web service API for waaay longer than flickr and while its a little clunky at times, it does a pretty darn good job. F-Spot has built-in support for it, iPhoto might (don’t know if they’re keeping feature-parity with the other players in their space) and (since I use Gallery) at some point I’ll implement support for it in Flock

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:16:46 +0000

Your post jumped the shark when you quoted a Pew internet study.

By: Robert Douglass

Robert Douglass — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:01:16 +0000

You’re spot-on with your suggestion to reimplement the whole API for Druapal (and others). This is what Stephan Jaensch did for the Upcoming.org API as part of the Summer of Code. I still maintain that people haven’t generally made the mind shift that this will require: “My site can do what Flickr does. My site can do what Upcoming.org does. My site can talk directly with your site and share events, photos, etc.” Furthermore, there are now so many great APIs out there… I want to see the del.icio.us API for Drupal. And of course, I want to be able to publish against any of these APIs directly from Flock

By: Boris Mann

Boris Mann — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:15:49 +0000

Drupal, I think, already leads the way in this. The Gallery API (which has an iPhoto Plugin) was cloned in Drupal, so you could point the plugin at your Drupal site.

The same thing was done with the Upcoming.org API in Drupal.

The one thing that is required is for app makers to make it somewhat easy to edit the endpoint. I imagine it is fairly difficult to change 1001 to remove the http://www.flickr.com address.

In some ways, what you ask for is implemented not at the script level, but at the application level. I route all pictures through iPhoto, and as long as it has multiple API/plugins available, I can publish to multiple locations. So, the previous iPhoto to Gallery plugin takes care of Gallery and Drupal, the MetaWebLog API-powered Photon goes to Drupal and any other blogging system that supports the API, and of course Fraser Speirs’ FlickrExport does Flickr for me.