Yahoo's photosharing service Flickr is one of the more wonderful things on the web and today the company made a small release that a lot of people should enjoy quite a bit. There's never been a really easy way to embed a nice slide show of your photos off site, until now.
The new Flickr slide show (example below) is available for the photos on any page you're looking at, meaning you should be able to display your friends' photos, photos with a particular tag etc. We are happy. Thanks to the fabulous photographer Scott Beale for pointing to the new feature release.
The above are the latest from my personal account. I've tested it and privacy settings appear to be respected. A couple of changes that would be nice would be a link in the player to each photo's page on Flickr and the ability to turn on captions.
I've been posting to Flickr far, far more than ever before now that I've set up posting from my phone. To do that you go to the settings tab, find the post by email address, make that a contact on your phone and send it there by MMS. I've also been uploading a lot of screenshots using the wonderful Mac app Skitch. I've also got my Flickr account tied to my account at FriendFeed, which gives me more reason to post photos since I know more friends will see them.
Update: Ruby points out in comments that this service has long done a good job making Flickr's slide shows available in an iframe. That does look nice!
How about you? Tips on making good use of Flickr in general and the new embedded slideshow in particular would be great to share in comments.
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This is perfect. I upload many of my images with SnagIt, and I can see many uses for this.
Posted by: Spencer | August 21, 2008 9:04 AM
so cool
Posted by: A Suresh Kumar | August 21, 2008 9:11 AM
Man I could have used this a million times before.
Posted by: Justin Kistner | August 21, 2008 9:13 AM
I've been making embedded slideshows from Flickr for a while using this free service: http://fabiocavassini.com.ar/SlideShowGenerator.html
It works really well. I hope Flickr includes as many options (tag, group, user, album, etc.).
Posted by: Ruby Sinreich | August 21, 2008 9:21 AM
OK, just tried it out and have this complaint: the slideshow doesn't allow users to get more info or links to individual pictures! Other than that I like it a lot, but will probably stick with the previous hack for now.
Posted by: Ruby Sinreich | August 21, 2008 9:29 AM
@4: I used that slide show generator for a recent project. I like the functionality of it a lot. Nice to see Flickr has their own, now. Worth a try.
Posted by: DL | August 21, 2008 9:57 AM
I have been embedding Flickr slideshows for a while. I just wrote a method om my blog:
http://www.sebastienpage.com/how-to-create-embeddable-flickr-slideshows/
It seems that the new "Flickr way" is a little easier though.
Posted by: Sebastien | August 21, 2008 11:47 AM
"the ability to turn on captions"
This ability is available if you run the app in full screen mode and click on "Info On" in the top. Not sure if thats what you meant though.
Posted by: Arun | August 21, 2008 9:59 PM
Hopefully this new Flickr slide show works well. Need a easy way to put photos on different blogs!
Posted by: caplondon | August 21, 2008 10:43 PM
I love this functionality, but I think that next phase is iphone functionality that allows slide shows to be played...
http://business-vs-technology.blogspot.com
Posted by: Aziz Musa | August 22, 2008 11:16 AM