A new desktop client for Hyves, the top social networker in The Netherlands, was out yesterday as beta (paid members only, for now). It's a chat client, blog/media/event notifier and photo uploader all rolled into one. Girish and self have been working on the photo uploader part of it for over a month now (half of that time in a cold, wet and absolutely charming place called Amsterdam), with oodles of help from Arend and Boud, and it's looking all neat and slick now. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux. Written using Qt/C++, Javascript and the public hyves api .
(Are we anti-social or what? Hyves is the first social networking site I joined, and only when we started working on this (same case with Girish, I bet), and I have a grand total of 5 friends (one of them being myself with another username). Another case Boris in the making? :D)
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Congrats! How did you like Amsterdam? Was there anything that impressed you?
Thanks, zecke. Found Amsterdam really really nice. Lovely place to just walk around (unlike Bangalore, as you'd know). The canals and the numerous cyclists and the buskers were all pretty cool. But what impressed me were the joggers :) - there are folks jogging at ten in the night (a cold one) in Voldelpark, and even when we're on a bus or train going out from Amsterdam, I spot a jogger or two even in the middle of nowhere. Whatever point you are in space-time in Holland, you aren't very far from a jogger, looks like. (We saw an active windmill in Kinderdijk and that was pretty impressive too.)
How are you managing without idlis nowadays? :D
Looks great girish :)
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