Summer is here and you might want to go to the beach or to the park. Why not take pictures of your outdoors experience and share them with the people that are following your activities?

Here’s a quick guide to setup a workflow that will publish a picture on flickr and announce it on twitter.

Open the accounts tab:

Insert your twitter credentials:

Give tarpipe permission to upload pictures to your flickr account:

Open the workflows tab:

Create a new workflow:

Give it a title and optionally a description:

Click on the MailDecoder connector:

Click on the Flickr connector:

Click on the TwitterUpdater connector:

Arrange the connectors around the canvas:

Connect the MailDecoder’s subject to the Flickr’s title:

Connect the MailDecoder’s imageAttachment to the Flickr’s picture:

Connect the MailDecoder’s subject to the TwitterUpdater’s title:

Connect the Flickr’s pictureUrl to the TwitterUpdater’s url:

Save the workflow:

Notice the email address that appeared above the “save workflow” button:

Now, simply take a picture with your cell phone and send it to this email address. Your subject line will be used as the picture’s title and also as the text posted to twitter:

That’s it. It might be a good idea to save the workflow email address as a contact on your cell phone. Now you can show everybody what you’re up to!

Oh, and don’t forget the sun blocker. Have fun!

tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that will simplify regular upload activities:

• Publishing content to multiple Web locations
• Combining different media into a single blog post or article
• Transforming documents on-the-fly
• Managing repeatable upload actions

By providing different ways to upload files without installing a desktop or mobile application we will make publishing a very simple task. Users will be able to use existing applications, creating and manipulating their documents like they’re used to.

tarpipe will also create an ecosystem where Web applications and services will be able to receive and transform media content. Users will take advantage of this ecosystem by defining delivery and transformation workflows for their documents.