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Meeting with the YellowArrow guys
more photos from mygdal
Help translating 23
One of our favorite features at 23 is our multi-lingual support; that is the site has been created so it’s very easy to integrate more languages. And, while our focus has been on adding more features rather than adding more languages, users have been offering to help translating. After much discussion, we’ve agreed to give them the chance…
If you want to lend a hand, let us know by replying to this thread in our discussion forums.
The (first annual?) Noodlum Christmas Prize
Nick Muldoon has initiated a sort of Christmas Photo Challenge in which you can win the greatest price of all! No, it’s not eternal happyness, world peace or even some kind of fancy car; it’s a one-year subscription to 23!
To be a contender, you’ll need to shoot a brilliant photo, upload it to 23 and tag it noodlumchristmasprize. To see current entries, have a look at http://www.23hq.com/tag/noodlumchristmasprize
(And on a personal note, we here a 23 salute the effort — we urge Nick to make The Challenge annual, as this will at least provide us with some steady income :-)…)
Photo: Welcome to Twin Peaks!
Scary when the real world looks like the twilight zone. The guy’s only job was to greet people arriving to the hotel - in his spare time he designed high street fashion clothing for women
Subscribe to tags
We’ve just done an upgrade of 23, but since we’re continually making minor updates, I’m not able to give you a full list of new additions since last. Today’s update is mostly a minor design and functionality fix before gearing up to revise the entire set of “Sharing” features.
However, this recent update does include one distinct new feature: Tag subscriptions. You’ll now be able to see all new photos tagged london in your Subscription — this is done by clicking the Subscribe link when visiting af given tag. New photos tagged london will appear alongside new photos from your contacts.
(And no, the service isn’t restricted to the the london tag specifically — in fact you can use it for any tag that you find interesting.)
What’s up next then? We hope to make our users able to subscribe to our Plus service sometime tomorrow; we’ve been discussing new features in Sharing; and we are getting very serious about our own Windows upload application. And then there’s all the other stuff at the top of our lists: blog auto-detection, RSS feeds on subscriptions, and much more…
PictureSync now supports uploading to 23
Holocore’s PictureSync has become the first 3rd party application to support uploading to 23 directly from the comfort of your own desktop, that is if you’re a Mac user. The application allows you to upload photos organized within iPhoto or iView MediaPro − or you can simply do some drag-n-dropping before clicking the Upload button to see your snapshots flying off to 23 world.
Download PictureSync now! (This distribution takes you directly to 23, so you won’t have to waste valuable mouse-clicks.)
On good intentions and bad spam
Over the past few weeks we’ve been doing loads of fixes on 23, and yeah, we have also added some new features such as:
- An improvement of the UI in the Subscriptions viewer. For example, you can now see all new photos in the same view without clicking all contact links.
- Now, only contacts with access to your private photos (you can set that up in the Contacts section) will be able to download your original photos (that is, those very large photos).
- Changes in the organize feature allows you to choose as many photos as you’d like.
- Users will now be receiving mails when their photos are commented. This feature can be disabled in the Profile section.
BUT — as we’re speaking of mail — not all new features were for the good. We thought we’d build in some automatic mails, which would be sent as friendly reminders to our users. For example, new users who hasn’t uploaded any photos three days after registration will be receiving a mail with some basic upload tips and tricks.
We also toyed with the idea of having an automatic mail for users who hasn’t logged in for a month, and we even wrote the code. But as we’re not really into spam ourselves we decided not to use this anyway.
However, someone (and while I’m not pointing any fingers, if you were here with me right now,… well, then you’d be looking at him) forgot to deactivate this procedure on the live server. As a result we sent out mails to some registered users reading “Hi user, it’s been a while…” (See, as we never did intend to utilize this function we didn’t bother to write a proper mails).
That’s it. If you received that mail: First of all, sorry, we never intended to send you anything that meaningless. My bad! And secondly, man, where have your been — it really has been a while?
To make up for all of this (and this very long post), we’ve added a few discussion forums at 23hq.com/forums, and we promise that our api is right around the corner.
Random photos in your 23 badge
As a follow-up and an answer to a comment to the previous post, let me just write a note about randomizing and caching.
Basically, our caching strategy mean that the badge photos won’t be different on every page update, even if you choose to randomize in the badge setup guide. The data which produces the JS object — upon which the badge is programmed — is cached for 30 minutes — and accordingly, this means that the badge ought to be reproduced randomly every half hour.
The problem is that producing the more advanced datasets for the JS objects requires some doing on our server, and if a 23 badge were put on a busy site this might be an issue for us — that is, if we hadn’t cached the data.
That doesn’t mean that you can get a random-every-time effect though. You’ll just have to randomize data through JavaScript instead. This will do the trick:
This example uses TheRatRace’s photos − and also take a look a his web page which uses the 23 badge in a very cool fashion!
Stomp the 23 Dev Team
We’ve been doing loads of minor fixes throughout the past two or three weeks, but while all of these tiny bits and pieces are waiting for our next big update we couldn’t help ourselves when it came to meeting a challenge.
Isaack asked for a small change to our Badge feature, which would enable visitors of his blog to browse through more than just a few photos at once. So we jumped at the opportunity to meet a request and build a bit more onto the JS API, and, well… be sure to update your badge at once!
Image podcasting
We’ve just added RSS 2.0 enclosures to our RSS feeds. This means that we have added a special link to a large version of each image to 23’s RSS feeds. Applications can read this special link and do interesting stuff with it — for example it may automatically add photos to iPhoto.
The popular podcasting client iPodderX can do this. In iPodderX’s preferences window, select the “Exporting” tab and check “Move Images to iPhoto After Downloading”. Then subscribe to your friends’ RSS feeds on 23. In the future their photos will then appear in iPhoto whenever you sync iPodderX.
Read more about “image podcasting” on Peter Forret’s site.
