Ounce Media Support
Saturday, January 26 2008
at 2:00 pm
I just updated Ounce again. It now shows inline thumbnails of Flickr photos, just like Pownce! Unfortunately, this seems to only work with Flickr, because the Pownce API doesn’t give out those new thumbnails for any image (yet?). I also added event support, complete with the iCal link, even though I’ve never actually used Pownce events. I guess I’m a completist?
And of course there were a few bugfixes as well. Kudos to Tek Rotzen for reporting a bug that I never would have found: apparently it didn’t work when a user had less than 2 notes. Remember, you can send feedback for Ounce to ounce@wattornot.com.
Commentary
Yeah, I'm not sure why they’re keeping those Amazon S3 URLs private. But somebody’s already asking about it on the Pownce API Google Group, so we’ll see how that pans out I guess.
Also, I'm pretty sure you can follow a tag just by adding “feed” to the tag’s URL, such as http://www.wattornot.com/tag/i-dont-speak-french/feed/, even though Wordpress doesn’t show this link anywhere. I doubt that tag will get a lot of posts, though! ;)
tags: “i don’t speak french” :D
If you had a single tag related feed, I'd subscribe to this one!
Nice update, by the way: I've been trying to find a way to display those thumbnails as well, but as it’s stored on http://s3.amazonaws.com/, there’s a key to access the file…
Using the xml api feed, a way would be to look for those fields, and if present, use the url to display the image…
amz:url_thumb_1-1243615.png photo
Anyway.
Hopefully they will change the way they store the thumbnail to make it easier to access…
oups. url is only http://s3.amazonaws.com , of course.