Viewing an ink post via Twitter and GTalk

I’m experimenting with the next step: Twittering the inked Flickr image.

Here’s what an inked Flickr image looks like in GTalk when Twittered:

As you can see, GTalk provides a thumbnail view of the inked image–which is pretty much impossible to read. Above that is another image that’s fixed in height to 222 pixels. It also is a litle bit difficult to read, I think in large part because of the algorithm used to scale the image down. I might play around with the original image size to find something better. It’s not that it’s terrible, but I imagine I can find a sweet spot where the image on Flickr and in GTalk both look good.

I’ve also noticed that Twitter seems to mess up the URL I give it. I’m going to see if this is easy to work around. I’m not sure if it’s something I’m doing or something that Twitter is doing. GTalk seems to be able to handle it though.

Well, this is step 2. There’s still lots of clean up to go and I imagine I’m not going to have the time this week to do it. So hopefully this weekend I’ll get around to it.

So what do I have working so far? You can sign in to a Silverlight app that lets you draw on a single page. When you’re satisfied you can post the image to Flickr and optionally post a link to it in Twitter. And if you’re using GTalk to watch someone else’s ink Twitters, you can actually see the inked image in GTalk itself. It’s not ideal, but it works.