I hold Flickr in very high regard for their openness, interaction with the community and the great API. This is also the reason I'm happy to sign up for a pro account vs other services I use heavily (such as Geocaching.com) which are a closed managed community. So I was surprised to find this note in my inbox this morning which appears to be an automated message or at best the staff member simply hasn't looked at the application before criticising and taking action.Hello, The App Garden is a place for software developers to showcase applications they've created. Because your app doesn't appear to fit this description it has been set to private. Your API key is still active and fully functioning , it's just not public in the App Garden. The App Garden is not a place to showcase a personal website or gallery. Please only publicize app pages for applications that you have developed and that are related to the Flickr API. You can review the App Garden guidelines here: http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/about/ Thank you for your understanding. Regards, Flickr Staff
Tuesday 2 February 2010
Flickr Appgarden Violation, really?
Today I unexpectedly received the following from Flickr in reference to BloGTK.
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To be fair though, does BloGTK actually support Flickr at the moment?!
The released versions don't. However, the latest development branch has Flickr and Picasa support as contributed through patches by yours truly. I even have permission from a certain large corporate organisation to contribute to the project in my own time.
Very good, very good :-)
So a couple of thoughts. First on the Flickr thing, are other blogging clients with Flickr support actually listed on the Appgarden? and since the current visible version of BloGTK on the website doesn't show the Flickr support off in anyway, I guess a quick look might lead to confusion. Secondly... Lotus Connection support would be nice :-) for posting and image upload... hint hint!
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