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  • Public sharing and more Megs on Pownce

    Posted on 2008-05-08 09:14:47 Tagged with

    Wow, Pownce just announced 2 huges changes to their service:

    1. You can now also post files to the public instead of just being able to share links, events and messages with the world.
    2. The filesize limit has been raised to 100 MB for normal users and 250 MB for pro users.

    For me personally, this is really great, esp. since the new upload limit finally moves Pownce beyond sharing content via e-mail. I'm not so sure, though, about the whole public sharing thing. I guess only time will tell if people will be stupid enough to start sharing material copyrighted by others with the public (stupid because you have to have an account there to share stuff ;-)). Anyway, I really hope this works out for Pownce.

    And for myself I hope I can convince some of my colleges to join. This would make sharing links and the usual funny stuff much more convenient ;-)

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  • Some Flickr alternatives

    Posted on 2008-05-07 20:19:36 Tagged with , , , , , ,

    Every once in a while it's good to take a look what alternatives to a service you use and like very much. So given the current Microsoft/Yahoo-dicussions, I thought it was once again time to look at some of the "alternative" photo communities out there: Smugmug, Zooomr, 23hq, Fotocommunity and ipernity. I didn't really try most of these services but just looked at their feature-set to see if they offered what I need. Also don't expect a complete comparison off these sites here, since this would probably easily fill a 20 pages article. I just want to point out a few things I've noticed.

    So let's get started.

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  • OOP Views for Django now on GitHub

    Posted on 2008-04-28 08:41:50 Tagged with , ,

    About a week ago I wrote about bringing some OOP into Django views and also posted some code for that. Since I use this in one project and want to move it also into some other project of mine, I've put this (together with some very simple pagination templatetag) into its own pluggable app and uploaded it github for everybody to slap me around for my coding style ;-)

    So if you want to use this code, simply install the app available here (or just import the django_zsutils.utils.oopviews module).

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