Thanks for using my code, Google

http://openphotovr.jottit.com/re_panoramio

by cousin_it • 18 years ago

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redorb2• 18 years ago

kinda feel bad for the fellow, although to his admittance his only innovation was some flash code. I wish him well in his 'for profit' venture

cousin_it9• 18 years ago

Hey, I'm that fellow. Why feel bad? It's a win.

redorb2• 18 years ago

Seems like you worked hard on a problem - but got beat to getting paid for it.

ph0rque• 18 years ago

The way the post is worded sounds sarcastic... maybe that's why the sentiment expressed above.

sadiq• 18 years ago

Just out of interest, have you thought much on how you'd go about doing automatic matching?

Would it be feasible to use one of the SIFT implementations out there?

wave• 18 years ago

When I read about Panoramio (Google product) on TC today, I thought about how similar it is with your product. I don't know how long Google has been working on Panoramio, but I think you have a good product. Instead of closing the project down, did you try to get funding and take your service to next level?

cousin_it9• 18 years ago

I never wanted to earn money with this thing, it was conceived and started as a non-profit. My number one goal was to see Sagrada Familia again, as it should be seen. The other goal was to change people's minds, change the web, open a new possibility. Win on both counts.

whacked_new• 18 years ago

That's quite a spirit right there; great respect for that, and upmods won't quite do justice. I salute you sir.

ComputerGuru• 18 years ago

The interface on the Google service is identical as best as I can figure - does "Do no evil" include saying thank you to the authors of open source code?

cousin_it9• 18 years ago

I see a lot of differences; maybe they even recoded it from scratch. But it uses some interesting tricks I invented, and doesn't use the easy features that I didn't include. They definitely have at least seen the source code.

echair• 18 years ago

maybe they even recoded it from scratch

Even when Google buys a startup they usually rewrite everything.

xirium• 18 years ago

I also wonder if "do no evil" includes not peeking at the fellow's gmail account.

kajecounterhack• 18 years ago

Wow this is amazing. What many would do to have google use our code haha... Congrats man.

cousin_it9• 18 years ago

People are pointing out this is likely a rewrite. Fun, anyway.

pistoriusp2• 18 years ago

I'm not a flash guy so I'm not sure about this, but isn't it possible to decompile flash?

volida2• 18 years ago

well its obvious they copied. It doesnt matter if it is a re write. They owe somebody a thank note.

So much for the do no evil bullshit.

jrockway• 18 years ago

Building on someone else's work is "evil" now? Where I come from, we call that "progress."

systems• 18 years ago

the evil was not referencing the original work

volida2• 18 years ago

I am sure you've heard of the word credit.

jpeterson• 18 years ago

The most amazing part of this post is that people are still using jottit.

hhm• 18 years ago

I use it a lot, for internal stuff only. But it's very useful for me. Is there any better alternative? (jottit is king in being simple and fast)

nickb• 18 years ago

Make sure you back it up!

listic• 18 years ago

What's wrong with jottit? It's good for me. Are you kidding here?

Thanks for using my code, Google

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