Thumbd, An Image Thumbnailing Service Built on Node.js, SQS, and S3

Since we are all plugging our competing projects, here's mine: <a href="https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie</a><p>* Written in Ruby with Sinatra.<p>* Supports both SQS and AMQP (eg., RabbitMQ).<p>* Simple REST interface for submitting jobs.<p>* Can get/put both HTTP and S3 URLs.<p>* Image support: Scaling, cropping, format conversion, EXIF/IPTC stripping. Uses ImageMagick.<p>* Audio/video support: Scaling, format conversion, thumbnail extraction from videos. Uses ffmpeg.<p>* Has a helper component that provides live upload progress, jQuery uploader, etc.: <a href="https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu</a><p>Tootsie is intended as a generic conversion/transcoding framework, so it does more than just thumbnail images.<p>Oh, and it has been run in production for a long time.

We just built a similar node.js tool which resizes images on demand: <a href="http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/SydneyStockholm/imgr</a>

If someone could roll common image functions into one, with webpage screenshots and a way to optimize images for high resolution displays (smartly handling quality and compression) - that would be nice. Haven't come across a good service that does either of these yet.<p>related: Photon for WordPress adds a bunch of basic image manipulation functions as well as a cdn for images.

need to prefix it with backbone- for the extra hype-factor