Self hosted ffffound
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- KarlFreeman
With the rise of ffffound, dropular, imgfave, vi.sualize.us etc... Am I the only one who is contemplating just creating there own self hosted image bookmarking site? I'm aware of http://www.vnovember.com/ but has anyone else had the same feeling that putting all there hard earned image finds on to someone else's platform in the long term is a bit stupid.
Considering that content is king do you reckon it would be worth while building a personal image bookmarking site or just simply be a user on these sites ( or not in the ffffound instance )
I'm aware that the real value of these sites is the sharing / caring aspect but I for instance use my dropular account as more of a place just to put a load of inspiring stuff for myself, unfortunately the sharing / caring is extra.
ffffrevolution?
- bekannt0
yes
- ryngo0
yes.
- KarlFreeman0
I'm assuming those yes's are in fact yes to me being the only one ;)
- yesmonospaced
- Ouch. I'l consider myself schooled.KarlFreeman
- IainIainIain0
I download and backup my ffffound collection once a month for my digital scrapbook.
I use it for looking at rather than adding images.
- Rand0
I think its a good idea
- ryngo0
Thats a 'yes, I'd like to have a personal site'. I even thought about making myself a little book of all the images Ive found that I like but cant see it happening any time soon.
- You say that but it could be quite an easy solution to create...KarlFreeman
- baseline_shift0
can you make one for me too?
- bekannt0
do it, and help me how to set up mine... and we link
- KarlFreeman0
@IainIainIain I like the idea of the digital scrapbook, downloading the images is something I hadn't thought about.
I mean considering how easy it is to set up a microblog these days I think I'l find myself chucking up a sub-domain and throwing a wordpress theme on it.
Would be nicer if there was a better alternative, im aware ( and currently use ) evernote but its trying to find the balance between private scrapbook and public.
Maybe a Wordpress MU, highly stylized with Scribefire Firefox plugin for the dropping of images.
- KarlFreeman0
A feature I'm yet to see on these sites is correct attribution of work which would be nice.
- fiesta0
TUMBLR
- KarlFreeman0
@fiesta Tumblr is certainly a good suggestion as are most the other microblogging platforms and its certainly the right way to go for privatizing content ( as lets face it thats why tumblr are so nice to allow you to use there service ) Im not sure what it is but there has to be a more elegant solution than a tumblr theme for a digital skethcbook ( although tumblrs visual archive is pretty sweet )
- ryngo0
Is there a quick way of producing a document ( lets say a A5 indesign file) and then putting an image on each age automatically. A bit like photoshops batch contact sheet automation?
- Rand0
can you make me something that automatically imports my ffffound collection?
- KarlFreeman0
@Rand that shouldn't be too much of a problem as you can access your ffffound collection via rss, throw that through yahoo pipes so that it pulls just images and your away. Could even rename the images to be the titles of each post?
@ryngo with regards to a batch contact sheet of bookmarked images, again it would have something to do with yahoo pipe I reckon, Maybe the best thing would be yahoo pipes the images and then throws it in to flash which AlivePdf's them out in whatever customizable way possible.
- fiesta0
use Automator on OSX, you can take images and create a multipage pdf out of them
- scarabin0
what happened to just keeping them in your pictures folder?
- KarlFreeman0
@scarabin For me its the issue with using 3 different computers and not wanting to have 1 with all of the good stuff on it.
- dkmb0
check this out, it brings ffffound, dropular and yayeveryday together
http://under1roof.electrolyte.co…
- Pupsipu0
http://ddddownload.general-proje…
I think downloading your image bookmarking account with the hyperlinks included would solve your problems. With self hosted image bookmarking you'd still need a tracker of some sorts to enable sharing.