del.icio.us and Flickr Get Some AllPeers Love
When we announced the open sourcing of AllPeers, I explained that our Drag-n-Share product, cool though it is, is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg (well, platform-berg really) that we wanted to make available to other developers. We know that it will be a long process to get our framework into a form where the benefits outweigh the learning curve, and going open source was a first baby step in that direction.
Now we’ve taken a slightly larger baby step (a toddler step, as it were). Our intrepid intern Luděk has whipped up a couple of examples of how to extend AllPeers using special Firefox extensions that hook into our APIs. We’ve taken to calling these AllPeers-based extensions “AllPeers extras”.
One extra lets you post links to del.icio.us directly from the AllPeers share form. Once you’ve installed it, you’ll see the del.icio.us logo in the share form. Click on it and you’ll be prompted to log in, and once you’ve done that you can enter tags and post any link at the same time you share it with your AllPeers contacts, or click the little button next to the tag field to post to del.icio.us without sharing. Note that nothing will happen if you don’t have added any webpages to the little thumbnail box for sharing.
The other extension does the same thing for Flickr, so this time you need to have some images selected for sharing.
Note that you need at least AllPeers 0.56 to use these extras. They are just demos and not intended for production purposes, so please treat them as such. That said, I can see myself using both of them frequently. Get them here:
delicious4AllPeers
Flickr4AllPeers
For the geeks among you, Luděk wrote up a fairly detailed artlcle about how to create your own AllPeers extra. You might also want to browse the source code.
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thank you nice sharing
Comment by cep program — 5/14/2008 @ 9:46 pm