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Two days ago, I wrote a blogpost titled “Flickr op Hyves” about social networking and how to manage your social networks.

One of the problems I had was that I upload all my pics to Flickr, but my friends (who are most likely the ones who like to see them) never visit Flickr. So I wanted to import the newly uploaded photos in Hyves automatically. I suggested a webbased php script that grabs my Flickr RSS feed, downloads the pictures and sent them to my secret email upload hyves address.

It didn’t take long before Lennaert Ekelmans (developer on Fleck and builder of twittermail and twittermsn) came up to me and said: “I’ll build it in one afternoon”.

Et voila! There you go. The first 20 photos from Flickr just have been sent to my Hyves account (only visible for friends) and as of now all my new photos will be imported in Hyves!

There is no interface yet, so it is not available for others. If you want the same thing, please reply and we might build an interface and give it a name.

Isn’t it cool!

Since a couple of days I’m using twittermail as my main input option service for twitter.
One of my problems with twitter was that when I wanted to post something I was on the road most of the times. When you’re doing something worth mentioning it often involves a location. So my twitter account was pretty much dead.
Now I use my blackberry to send a tweet via email and it directly puts it on my twitter account.
Also there are some cool features with using twittermail:
- Replies to your posts are emailed back to you (so no reloading the page all the time)
- You can receive the last 20 posts of your friends in your mailbox, by sending ‘friends’ in the subject.
- no character restraint (the first 140 will be post on twitter, the rest behind a ‘more’ link.
- Need an alibi? Schedule your post! I love this feature, you can schedule posts so it looks like you’re working at 3 o’clock in the morning :) it might come in handy.

TwitterMail was built by Lennaert Ekelmans (Development) and Bram Kok
(Design) and is based on an OpenIdea by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten.

It is a twitter kind of like thing, but then you upload pictures (via email or mms). So I have a mobile with a flat fee internet access and a camera. I can make pics send them to radar and my friends and family can track me (my mom would love this).

It’s cool, I only need to find radar friends… (a buddylist all over again!).