January 18, 2006
@ 12:03 PM

Once people find out that they can use tools like ecto, Blogjet or W.Bloggar to manage their blog on MSN Spaces via the MetaWeblog API, they often ask me why we don't have something equivalent to the Flickr API so they can do the same for the photos they have in their space. 

My questions for folks out there is whether this is something you'd like to see? Do you want to be able to create, edit and delete photos and photo albums in your Space using desktop tools? If so, what kind of tools do you have in mind?

If you are a developer, what kind of API would you like to see? Should it use XML-RPC, SOAP or REST? Do you want a web service or a DLL?

Let me know what you think.