Import/Export of pictures

Because so many people are already on Flickr, we've always thought that we would have an import feature from Flickr to pikeo. We got this feature request from people internally and even from people outside like Tara Hunt.
From this Friday post on Techcrunch, it looks like commercial APIs to retrieve pictures from Flickr are not available yet. The quite intense and passionate debate currently happening on the Techcrunch blog shows however that it is not that easy of a debate.
Web 2.0 means being open but how open?

For us at pikeo, the point is not to "steal" Flickr users because obviously, we cannot compete with the ton of features + community they have. Our motivation would be to allow people to discover pikeo without the inconvenience of re-uploading all their pictures.

Let's see how all this goes... tags: pikeo flickr zooomr techcrunch APIs