[Greasemonkey] Original site adopting Greasemonkey'ed feature

[Neil Kandalgaonkar]

The cat's out of the bag now, so I can finally talk about this.

As you may know, Flickr.com just moved from an Flash-based interface to 
DHTML. This was the main thing Lickr did, so I'll probably be 
mothballing it.

Lickr did a few other things -- such as turning a link into a thumbnail 
-- but here's the interesting part: Flickr is considering adopting those 
features.

http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/05/from_flash_to_a.html
http://brevity.org/lickr/

I've been talking with Eric Costello of Flickr. Sometimes it's hard to 
tell which one of us works there. Arguably, Greasemonkey has made the 
distinction irrelevant, except for how we're compensated.

I wasn't getting paid anyway, but if this is subsumed into Flickr, I 
won't get credit. However, I already got disproportionate credit for 
innovating on top of their API in the past two months, so I think I've 
still gotten the better deal. (And some of those felines are still 
ensacked.)

Anyway, the main point is, it's better for users! Due to the scale and 
stability of their linking feature, some users are already doing 
innovative things. I'm interested to see what happens when they get 
thumbnail links and so on.

If only all my projects became obsolete like this.

-- 
Neil Kandalgaonkar
neilk at brevity.org | http://brevity.org/