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Hat tip to Dave Winer
Back in early 2007, I was itching for a way to automatically tweet links to my photos on Flickr.
A few months later, Dave Winer wrote a web service called Flickr-to-Twitter. Dave was nice enough to give me access back then and I wrote about it at the time. And for the past two years, that’s how I’ve been posting flickr links to Twitter for the most part.
Since then a number of 3rd party apps have emerged to post photo links on Twitter. Many of them are fantastic. Simple & fast.
Earlier this week, Flickr announced that they had officially integrated with Twitter. It provides much of the same functionality as Dave’s original application with some additional bells & whistles.
It’s terrific that Yahoo built this into Flickr. It will help many users tie together two great products in a simple way.
But right now I’d like to say thanks to Dave for building his app. I appreciated it then and I appreciate it now.
Excellent, I had missed this (tangentially, seems like I don’t spend ANY time on Flickr anymore, which is sad). I noticed they had added the flic.kr shortening into their source code a few months back, and I’ve used this helpful bookmarklet since then in an effort to avoid TwitPic.
http://flic.kr/p/54Vid6 testing out the new flic.kr shortening service…so weird that they just started this in the past week.
(via my twitter at pfmartin)
I was surfing through some TwitPic photos yesterday when it occured to me to check the domain http://flic.kr. Sure enough, Flickr/Yahoo owns it (.kr top-level domain for South Korea). My immediate thought was that it would be an excellent way to integrate Twitter functionality into what’s already the best photo-sharing site…and only moments after posting that thought, I discovered that they’re already on top of it…or at least they’ve integrated the code into the source. Someone has already taken the initiative to write a simple “Tweet this Photo” bookmarklet, which works great.
What makes it really strange, though, is that this has all happened in the past week. I suppose it’s just another indication that (a) Twitter is dominating headlines and attention recently, and (b) the internet is such a vicious echo-chamber that my seemingly original idea also occurred to people who actually have an impact in the very near past. Weird.
autumn 2008.
