Comments on: More Flickr Synchronicity

By: talblog

talblog — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:39:02 +0000

Out of hiding and into the fire

At last year’s WWDC, I (purposely) kept a really low profile. I was already working on a new app for OS X, stemming from an idea that Dan Wood approached me about a few years ago. Dan, of course, was across the street at JavaOne demo’ing Project Alam…

By: DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:45:35 +0000

And for what it’s worth, I think it’s a great story, too. The funny thing is, I think I might have read Sci-Fi Hi-Fi before that anyway…

-DeWitt

By: Alex Payne

Alex Payne — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:33:14 +0000

That’s an awesome story. It’s nice - and rare - when social technologies actually work to bring people together in real actual physical meatspace.

I just moved to SF a couple weeks ago. I had no idea the Haight Street Fair was going on yesterday and I was showing a visiting friend around the city when we stumbled into it. Just crazy. The pervasive open container violations were really the least of it.

By: ssp

ssp — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:03:51 +0000

Thanks to AppleScript I was actually able to quickly make my own backup… cool.

Not quite perfect (say, because AppleScript uses localised dates by default and because the output seems to be UTF-16 for some reason) but potentially useful, I guess.

http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/other/Export%20Delicious%20Bookmarks.scpt

By: ssp

ssp — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:00:10 +0000

Cool stories!

Really make me thing about using such services as well. With problems for me being that their usage density where I live will be much lower and thus such effect much less likely - at least in the short term.

My other point of discomfort with Flickr is that you seem to have to upload your photos to their server. Probably meaning that you could lose all your photos and the data belonging to them should Flickr go bust or evil a few years down the road. I quite like having a working ‘backup’ of such data on my own computer/server.

In fact, that’s the same ‘problem’ I have with delicious - not having my bookmarks on my computer. I’d quite like having a backup copy here - just in case. Any plans to add a local export of the downloaded bookmarks to Cocoalicious?