Dmitry Baranovskiy’s Web Log

Flickr™ and the Blog

22 September 2006

I am not really sure is there is anybody reading my blog except for my friends, but anyway I will continue to write. For those of you who haven’t noticed, I have a “hidden” feature that I have added to the site and I will explain it to you now. If you put a comment to any or my posts and enter your email address a script will run behind the scenes as you type your message and check to see if you are registered (With this email address) with flickr™. If it cannot ﬁnd your email address on flickr™ it will then check gravatar to see if you have a registered avatar. If you have an avatar associated with your email address it will then appear on my site next to your comment. Go ahead! Try it! Type something… Please!

flickr, avatar, api

22 Sep 06 12:28pm

David Walker

That is pretty cool. My avatar is on gravatar and now it appears here.

04 Oct 06 1:28am

Nat

“I am not really sure is there is anybody reading my blog except for my friends”

He he - I know how you feel ☺ I guess in the end you have to decide whether having people read your blog is a mandatory success criteria?

Hmm - let’s see if this ﬂickr script works …

04 Oct 06 10:10pm

Ricky Onsman

In the last 10 minutes I’ve come across your name three times: at ﬂickr commenting on Andy Clarke’s use of Business newspaper (I won’t attempt cyrillic), then again on ﬂickr somewhere else and then on Jeremy Keith’s blog. You certainly have my attention.

And the avatar thing IS cool.

04 Oct 06 10:19pm