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Hosting Images on App Engine
"I like adding images to the occasional blog post but don’t do it as often as I want to. The reason being I can hardly ever be bothered to resize images. It means opening up a memory hogging application, fiddling around for a few minutes and then saving it out somewhere, then uploading said image to my server. All of those things bore me.
Appengine to the rescue. As an excuse to play around with the image API as well as add more pictures to this here blog I decided to build myself a small image hosting application. I really only care about the two things noted above; resizing and uploading. If I can do that in one go I’m happy.
A couple of train rides (all the best code gets written on train journeys, fact) later and I’ve deployed the first version of Image Host"
Facebook Joins OpenID in Quest for Universal User Accounts
I want Open Connect. I really hope Facebook helps make this happen. I want to use Facebook Connect for the great UX, but I just can't bring myself to do it. If they participate in the open that changes the game.