Release announcement: Flickr Watchr
Just kidding, mostly. I got email today informing me that Watchr “has been released successfully in Brothersoft”. Congratulations!
Watchr is a tiny program I wrote five years ago. Ken and I were talking about how we’d like something that pops up images when they’re posted to Flickr. For reasons I don’t now recall, we then wrote two separate applications, his in Python and mine in Java. (By the way, that page is the only use so far of erikostrom.com, except as a mirror of drowning.org, the equally dated site about my singer-songwriter career.)
I’m a little surprised to find that it still basically works. Write once, run everywhere, I guess! Although it still has the same Mac bug noted in 2005, which bothers me more now that I’m a Mac user.
Is Brothersoft just shovelware for the web? How did they come across Watchr?
Comment by Doug Orleans — March 9, 2010 @ 10:58 am
No doubt. Also they’ve since contacted me about opportunities to promote my software with advertising.
I suspect Brothersoft found Watchr by scraping Softpedia, who sent me a similar notice last week. (That message landed in my spam folder.) I don’t know how Softpedia found it. They took the trouble to generate a screen shot, though, and actually wrote a little blurb about it. (I can tell they wrote it because it’s more upbeat than anything I would’ve written.)
Comment by erik — March 9, 2010 @ 11:10 am