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Read the review of Feedburner over at WorkHappy.net. Good little read about Feedburner done by Carson McComas. One of the categories that he used in his review was “What could be improved?” He said about the performance of the stats. To me one thing I would love them to do is have a Flickr option.

 

They have lots of options but one I would love to see is the ability to setup a feedburner feed that would then setup Enclosure tags so that a podcather/image catcher could download the the photos automatically. But more then this, it would be great if it some how gave the option to decide which size of the photo was available for download.

 

Could this be done? I would have thought so! The photo’s ( as I understand it) all have a unique identifier. When you go to a pictures page, one of the (many) options available is to have a look at the picture is an array of different sizes (see example here). The URL of each of these photo sizes seems to be controlled by and extra parameter, size (go figure). Here are some examples:

Small: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=35389330&size=s

Medium: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=35389330&size=m

Large: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=35389330&size=l

Original: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=35389330&size=o

 

So surely it would be a matter of choosing the correct size parameter to add to the feed and then feedburner would make the image to be downloaded the same parameter through out the file.

 

I would have thought this would have been a trivial thing for the excellent developers at Feedburner. I guess the question is, am I the only one that sees this as useful?

 

Let me know, leave me a comment.

 

Happy blogging and Flickring.
Molly

 

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