[Dev] chandler extensibility: flickr

[Mimi Yin]

After today's IRC session (from 11AM-noon PST): http:// 
wiki.osafoundation.org/script/getIrcTranscript.cgi?messagesOnly=true

I thought I'd send out a Journal wiki page I'd written up for a Ted a  
few weeks back about how Chandler photos might get flickr-ized and  
exported/uploaded to the flickr website.

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/FlickrSyncing

I think ultimately, we'll want something a little more integrated  
into the main window of the app, but in the near term, it might be  
appropriate to handle this kind of workflow the way Apple iPhoto  
does, with a separate dialog window. (Which is similar to the way

In the future when the Sharing workflow gets integrated into the main  
app window via a Sharing / Collection detail view, we can do  
something similar with flickr-like workflows as well. In other words,  
to the user flickr is just another upload destination, same as Cosmo  
or any other sharing server.

This model could also be extended to subscribing to and syndicating  
content via RSS, receiving or broadcasting Podcasts, etc...

The idea is that the "transport" mechanism is simply another facet of  
content items in Chandler, not necessarily something that defines  
what Kind of item it is in the first place.

So a flickr-ized photo is a Photo that has been uploaded to flickr.  
But flickrPhoto is not on equal footing with Photo as an Subject noun.

This allows us to maintain Chandler Kinds as pure, user concepts that  
are agnostic to a particular technology.

Mimi