> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM, James Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey laconica^Wstatusnet dev! Long time lurker, first time caller ;-) >> >> 2009/9/11 Evan Prodromou <[email protected]>: >> > 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 Attachments already appear as enclosures in the RSS/Atom feeds (as of 0.8.1) and you can email attachments to the system too (as part of the regular SMS/email to update your status functionality). The API doesn't yet support adding attachments when adding a new notice, but it will (hopefully soon :) ).
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