Seth Ladd's Blog

Tim Berners-Lee asks "So do you think Flickr could be persuaded to source FOAF ?" Given what I've heard from Stewart Butterfield (co-founder of Flickr), the answer is a No. Back in 2004 (Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 8:41 PM to be exact), I wrote Flickr asking if they could add sha1 hashes of user emails (in an obvious attempt to be able to convert the data into FOAF). Here's the original request email: Hello, Would it be possible to add a sha1 hash of a person's email address to the response of flickr.people.getInfo ? I understand that we don't want to give out email addresses, and it's nice that the API doesn't expose them. But to help in uniquely identifying users across systems, a good identifier is often their email address. To safe guard against spam, creating a SHA1 hash is a good way to hide the email, yet still provide a unique identifier for the user. This sha1'ed email address becomes a candidate key to the user, so to speak. Thoughts? Th...

I should be able to tell Flickr to allow viewing of my photos to any of my Facebook friends.

Flickr Filesystem > Flickrfs is a virtual filesystem based upon FUSE for Linux. It can be mounted on your computer and then can be accessed using the standard commands. But, here are the twists. The filesystem uses threads, and hence, improves usability and speed. When you mount the filesystem, it will create 2 directories automatically: 'tags' and 'sets'. 'sets' will automatically retrieve your sets and will show you all the photos available in your sets. You can then easily copy images on your hdd. If you want to add some more photos to these sets, just copy them to the folder, and they will be uploaded to the respective set.