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Back in early 2007, I was itching for a way to automatically tweet links to my photos on Flickr.

A few months later, Dave Winer wrote a web service called Flickr-to-Twitter. Dave was nice enough to give me access back then and I wrote about it at the time. And for the past two years, that’s how I’ve been posting flickr links to Twitter for the most part.

Since then a number of 3rd party apps have emerged to post photo links on Twitter. Many of them are fantastic. Simple & fast.

Earlier this week, Flickr announced that they had officially integrated with Twitter. It provides much of the same functionality as Dave’s original application with some additional bells & whistles.

It’s terrific that Yahoo built this into Flickr. It will help many users tie together two great products in a simple way.

But right now I’d like to say thanks to Dave for building his app. I appreciated it then and I appreciate it now.

For the past several months I’ve replaced the MyBlogLog reader roll on the right side of this blog with TwitterRemote.

TwitterRemote shows Twitter users that recently visit this blog.

The first version of the widget required your Twitter username and password to sign in. The latest version uses Oauth which is a cleaner and secure way to do it. And you just have to sign in once and you are done.

And once you sign in here, you won’t have to sign into other blogs or websites that have the TwitterRemote widget either.

I’d love it if you could take the time and sign in if you haven’t done so already. It would be great to see your face and will also help me find you on Twitter.

Thanks.

update: whoa, thanks everyone. loving all those faces. awesome. already started following a bunch of new folks.

Our portfolio company OMGPOP develops real time, social games. Their most recent game Hover Kart is off to a great start with well over 1million game plays in just over a week. Hover Kart is also integrated with OMGPOP’s Store where users can purchase virtual goods.

Today, Mashable wrote about Ford sponsoring Hover Kart in a very clever way. Using the “Konami Code”, players unlock a virtual Ford Fiesta car in Hover Kart that comes along with a bunch of special features.

Check out the full story on Mashable which also includes a video of a Ford Fiesta team member at the OMGPOP’s office in New York City.

Well done.