drkWhat? drkROOM! We’ll it’s a new project of mine, somewhat like Flckr, but a bit more like iPhoto, but not like BubbleShare. Think of it like iPhoto on the web written in Ruby on Rails.

Currently it’s usable, but far from finished, more like: just started… I can probably do with a better name as well, I thought of Shuttr first, but that name is in use by the Shuttr Ruby Project. Names like flm, photoflm & rShuttr I already ruled out.

Ideas and work enough:

1. Apple PhotoBooth – like special effects.
2. Rotating of images
3. Digital-Watermarking
4. Organizing photos in albums and smart albums
5. Improve caching
6. Webservice API (remote uploading, information retrieval)
7. Email service
8. Mass uploading
9. RSS Syndication
10. Tag support

Already I have bits and pieces working together. Just finished a Typo Plugin which will allow the user to retrieve images from drkROOM and display them on his/her homepage. This plugin makes a SOAP call to the drkROOM webservice to retrieve additional information on a photo. Basically the user can say @@ and a photo appears!

If you think: “Hey this is a nice project, I’d like to help!” or “I sure want to beta-test this”. Drop me a mail: tom at degrunt.nl !