Just posting about it so I feel I actually have to get it done: I’ve recently acquired a Flickr Pro account and I’ve been using it heavily as a backup tool now that I can send my full resolution pictures to it. But I still have all those nice other pictures from my lowly non-Pro times that still don’t qualify as “backed up” because they are low resolution, and I’d like to replace them with the full-res version. Flickr lets you do that by hand but, really, thanks but no, thanks.
So I’m going to whip up a little script that compares the Exif data in the uploaded version against the local hard disk version (the time field, if it’s there and includes the seconds, should be enough; if not, a combination of date, aperture size, exposion time, etc. should be enough to guarantee the uniqueness of a picture) and replaces the low-res with the high-res.
I did a quick search for that and couldn’t find anything that does this, but if anyone knows one something that does, please let me know.
A more contextual alternative to email
February 21, 2006 — obvio171Inspired by Shrikant Joshi’s comment at TechCrunch I decided to put some thought to how email can be “more contextual”.
When I think of “contextual”, I imagine a local, distributed, on-the-spot sort of thing. I imagine embedded.
So my idea of “more contextual”, on these few minutes I put myself thinking about it, is a web application that would allow me to centralize all my text communication into one place.
To date, we have Gmail + Gtalk. You bind together two forms of textual communication into one place, go through your chat history as you would through your regular email, that sort of thing (plus google/yahoo groups).
Now throw into that your blog comments, your flickr comments and mostly any kind of text stuff you drop around on the web everyday. Imagine those being entered through an embedded “drop box” that, besides leaving your text on the website you are, direct it back to your email, saving information about the website, allowing replies to come in and go back as if you were responding to a normal email (coComment generalized and integrated to email).
This idea of a embedded drop box for entering text throughout the web allows for an extension of the Gmail+Gtalk concept in which, instead of centralizing the applications into one place before integrating them, centralizes the incoming and responding, while pulverizing the outgoing.
That would be “contextual” to me.