Hi folks, I wanted to point you to the picture hosting service http://Trovebox.com - I intended to use it with my first TW5 plugin, but now they are ending there "promotion period". Since I think this serivce may be usefull with TWc and TW5, I thought I'll share it.
Up to the 25th of October (4 days left) they offer a "limited free" and an "unlimited pro" account. * free [14] ... upload 100 pictures per month. No access limit. * pro [14] ... unlimited upload / import ... (USD: 29.90 _per year_) For new users after 25.10.2013, there will be no "unlimieded pro" and "no free" option anymore. I don't have any additional info, since they didn't talk about the future plans in there mail. ... Important: If you decide to create an account, carefully read, where you want to store your pics. IMO you should use the trovebox store. Otherwise trovebox is just a frontend, and you may have to pay twice (For the storage and the frontend). my sandbox: https://pmariojo.trovebox.com/photos/list Some more info, why I think it is usefull and considering a free account doesn't hurt :) ------------------ Some time ago I did create 2 spaces [10,11] to include picasa picture gallery into a TiddlySpace TiddlyWiki [a](long thread). I did implement a very "basic" functionality, because imo googles or flikrs "Terms of Service (TOS)" [1,2,3,4] don't allow the usecase Mat and I actaully wanted. The main goal, of such an implementation should be * There should be the possibility to upload your full size pictures to a hosting / sharing service. * The service should be useable on its own. * The hosting service should give a programmer an interface (API) to load the full size pic or a resized version on demand. * The TiddlyWiki should be able to download and save these pics as a tiddler for eg: offline viewing. * The service should not deny the above by there Terms Of Service (both user and developer TOS are important) In my last post [13] I stated, that there are services, that do treat ther users in a better way. ... much better! I did know about the OpenPhoto (now Trovebox) project but it was in its infancy in Feb. 2012 :) Atm it is version 3 and imo quite useable as a picture hosting and sharing service [5]. It is open source. You can find it at github [9]. It can store your photos at there servers or it can connect to eg: Dropbox, Box, Amazon S3, CX and DreamObjects (source: [5]). I personally store my stuff at there servers. So the free space, they provide adds up :) Trovebox uses very liberal TOS [8]. In fact all your stuff is yours. If you want to host your own service, just do it. IMO for TW users/devs even more important, there is a nice http API [6] that allows [8] you to fetch and resize [7] your pictures on the fly. No restrictions, to store your onw pics somewhere else \o/ So you only need to upload a full size picture to your account and you (your TW) can download a resized version of the pic to store it eg: for offline viewing. PRO: * IMO exactly what we need, to use pics with TiddlySpace, TWc and TW5 CONS: * Plugin(s), that uses the service has to be created ;) have fun! mario PS: Wall of flame FlikrTOS for programmers [1] especially the "You shall not" (i and iv) and the Commercial Use sections. FlikrTOS for users [2], which is the (!"ยง$% long) Yahoo tos, where a user has to grant them all the rights, to user there service google developer TOS [3]. Especially the "Prohibitions on Content" section. google user TOS [4] ... where you need to grant rights to user your stuff, even if you removed it. many others are no better ... PPS: links :) [a] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/uFypHIuwkuM/994_H4PN5tkJ [1] http://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/ [2] http://info.yahoo.com/legal/ie/yahoo/utos/en-ie/ [3] https://developers.google.com/terms/ [4] http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/ [5] https://trovebox.com [6] https://trovebox.com/documentation [7] http://theopenphotoproject.org/documentation/faq/PhotoGeneration [8] https://trovebox.com/terms [9] https://github.com/photo/frontend [10] http://picasagallery.tiddlyspace.com/ [11] http://picasagallery-plugins.tiddlyspace.com/ [12] about tos restrictions https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/uFypHIuwkuM/e2uNEcZe7k0J [13] my last post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/uFypHIuwkuM/e2uNEcZe7k0J [14] https://trovebox.com/plans PPS: I'm not related to any of the above mentioned services. I just wanted to let you know! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
