We just released the flickr connector. From now on you can use it inside your workflows.

I’m sure you have plenty of workflow ideas, but here are two suggestions:

1. Send a picture from mail to flickr and announce it on twitter;
2. Send a picture to flickr and photobucket in one step.

To start using it, you need to give tarpipe permissions to upload pictures to your flickr account. As before, you can do that on the accounts tab.

tarpipe is co-sponsoring the First International Erlang eXchange 2008, which will be held on June 26th-27th. This conference is aimed at anyone interested in Erlang, concurrent and sequential programming.

Here’s a partial speaker list:

• Joe Armstrong — Erlang creator;
• Jan Lehnardt — CouchDB;
• Matthias Radestock — LShift;
• Simon Thompson — Wrangler.

Tickets go at GBP 300/delegate for 2 days, packed with workshops and sessions. Please use the promo code ERLA-TAR3130 when you register to get a Go! Gameboard with your Erlang eXchange ticket.

Only two days have gone by since the developer preview was launched and there’s already so much to tell. We’ve been receiving lots of invitation requests and we’re trying our best to answer to everybody on time.

While we were fixing bugs and writing code, you were busy creating workflows and using the API with your favorite programming language. Here’s what happened on these two days:

• Andy Armstrong launched the WWW::TarPipe Perl module, available through CPAN;
• Alcides Fonseca launched the TarPipe Python API, available at Google Code;
• Alexandre Loureiro Solleiro wrote a very comprehensive quick how-to, to help first time users start their own workflows;
• Lots of bugs were fixed thanks to numerous reports sent by you.

You guys rock! Thank you for all the support and involvement.

One last thing: we’re almost finishing the flickr connector and will be adding others right after that. Which new services would you like to see featured inside tarpipe?

Do you like to try things before other people? Do you feel happy when you find a bug? Do you code until you fall asleep on your keyboard? Do you know that 1337 is not really a number? Then you’re the one.

We’re still developing tarpipe but we’d like to share with you everything that’s going on behind the scenes. That’s why we decided to invite a number of developers (like you, right?) to start experimenting early on, when there’s still room for lots of changes.

So, if you’re a developer, introduce yourself and we’ll get back to you with an invite code so that you can try tarpipe from the beginning. Remember that this is an alpha version, which means that everything can stop working or behave unexpectedly. Just don’t use our API inside any production code. Yet.

Oh, by the way, the screenshot is from our workflow editor. In case you were curious.

We’re thrilled to announce that tarpipe is releasing eCouch as an Open Source project. eCouch was developed because other CouchDB Erlang applications didn’t satisfy our needs. eCouch is being released under the LGPL license, which means that you can use the code in proprietary software.

In a nutshell, eCouch is an Erlang application that provides an API to a CouchDB server. eCouch follows all the OTP design principles and can run stand-alone with its own supervision tree or be included inside an existing supervision tree. For more information, please visit the eCouch Google Code project.

Big thanks to:

• LShift, for their RFC 4627 (JSON) Erlang implementation
• Serge Aleynikov, for his fantastic article “Building a Non-blocking TCP server using OTP principle“

plasq launched recently a new Skitch.com feature that captures images sent by e-mail, publishes them online and posts a twitter message announcing them.

You’ll be able to capture your moments and share them with your friends in no time. Brian Caldwell, from plasq, puts it better by saying:

Elapsed time from when you saw “it” happen, to showing everyone you know what “it” looked like … 15 seconds.

This is a great time saving feature. If you’re used to send twitter updates from your cell-phone, you’ll now have the possibility of sending pictures as well. Just imagine the possibilities.

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.