Still Not Perfect

FotoBuzz is a nifty Flash and PHP/Python widget for adding annotations to your photos. One of the few Flash things I have seen that could actually be useful (Flash is way overdone lately). Also, the user interface is a bit nicer than Flickr’s similar feature “notes”. Could be a nifty add-on to my Flickr Gallery WP plugin when the Flickr API starts to support adding notes. Cal Henderson of Flickr says the following regarding notes features being in the API:

oops - it’s not actually. API methods to deal with notes are half done. i need to port them across from the old API at some point soon. i definately plan to.

Interestingly, FotoBuzz stores the notes actually in the image file. Not exactly what I would want it to do for easy integration with Flickr, so I’d have to modify it a bit (the PHP/Python parts where the code would need to be changed are released under the LGPL — but the Flash part is under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license so I can’t [and don't want to] touch it). The changes shouldn’t be too hard to do, so I’m really just waiting on Flickr to allow posting notes through the API. It would be neat to have users be able to add notes to your photos through the Flickr Gallery plugin instead of having to follow the link to Flickr to do so (which nobody ever does).

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 at 11/30/2004 12:09 pm and is filed under Computing, Web.