Flickr users?
February 16th, 2005I think I'm going to start using "Flickr":http://flickr.com for image posting — mostly random moblog images, though I may include some photography in the mix in the future. Of course, I don't particularly *need* to use Flickr, as I have plenty of software to handle those tasks already and, even if I didn't, I could write my own. But, Flickr promotes community, and community is a good thing. And, since their API is so fluent, it's just as easy to access them as a datastore instead of handling it all myself.
At first, I'll probably just use their service standalone. Eventually, I'll add a "Recent Flickr Images" box on my site. Then, I'll add some code to allow the Flickr content to appear inline with the rest of the content on this site.
Of course, at this point, I have no Flickr contacts. Are you a Flickr user? If so, let me know so I can add you. Or just add "me":http://flickr.com/photos/revjim/.
With this approach in mind, I believe I'm going to start relying a lot more on other web services to handle various aspects of my site. Some things, of course, I'll handle on my own. And integration will always be key and solely left up to the code running this site. I can use "Delicious":http://del.icio.us for links (which I do now, though they aren't really "integrated"), "Flickr":http://flickr.com/ for Photos (in the works), and LiveJournal:"http://livejournal.com/" for the quick and dirty, off-the-cuff ramblings throughout the day.
Are there any other services on this great web of ours that I might find useful?
The biggest problem with all of these services is that, if you use *their* administration interfaces, you are only capable of receiving an update by "pull". Unless they implement XML-RPC/SOAP/whatever callback notification (which would be GREAT), the only other option is to duplicate their administration interfaces in my own code, and use their publishing APIs to integrate into their site.
Anyone know of a better way?
