On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM, James Walker <wal...@walkah.net> wrote:
> Hey laconica^Wstatusnet dev! Long time lurker, first time caller ;-) > > 2009/9/11 Evan Prodromou <e...@status.net>: > > So, what would it take to build a lightweight photo-sharing service like > > Flickr using StatusNet? I don't think very much. Since we allow file > > uploading, you could have a notice per photo (notice text provides the > > description), and "comments" would just be replies. > > As a long-in-the-tooth Drupal developer (who was at one time > responsible for a bunch of the Drupal code that folks were using to > s/Flickr/Drupal/), I would like to say: > > Resist the temptation to have StatusNet do it all (tm). This is > currently a nice piece of software that is on the right track towards > being a great micro-messaging tool. > > While I support Walkah's point — and worry that feature expansion could lead to dangerous distraction (especially if we don't start with the UI first), I can see how attachment could be very useful, considering both Yammer's approach to file sharing (basically as attachments/enclosures in the ATOM/RSS sense) and this little app I found called Freshlog: http://freshlog.com/ Basically you can imagine being able to toss up images into your stream — from an app or from a mobile device — and that it would constitute your status. Rather than worry about the Flickr API, it seems that XML-RPC and SMTP would be better approaches to getting images into the system, no? Chris -- Chris Messina Open Web Advocate Personal: http://factoryjoe.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrismessina Citizen Agency: http://citizenagency.com Diso Project: http://diso-project.org OpenID Foundation: http://openid.net This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private
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