Thanks to the open Flickr API, photo sharing and discovery has never been easier. Pageflakes has taken advantage of this with this handy module which allows anyone to discover great photos by allowing you to track your favourite Flickr tags and display them in a 3×3 gallery.
One interesting aspect of this is that it that also allows you to create multiple modules on a page so you can have a whole page full of your favourite different photo categories, and it allows you to publish that page publicly so you can share it with the anyone else (no sign up required). See this page for an example.
Options here are limitless. For example, you can create a page where different family and friend’s pictures are instantly updated to a single location, or you can create themed pages where you can galleries of your favourite subject. eg. Nature, football, which are dynamically updated every time you visit the page.
You can create your own gallery by :
- Signing up (free) for Pageflakes here,
- Add as many Flickr modules as you want
- Change the Flickr tags on the modules to the categories you want, or the users you want to track
- Kick back and enjoy! (Or publish your page to the web and let your friends enjoy it!)
You can check out the public gallery I created here.
Update June 17th 2006: Added the step by step section to create dynamic galleries.
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Another user’s experience with Pageflakes
September 27th, 2006 at 12:42 am
Nifty tip! Plus your mashup is a motley but nice blend of interesting images.
January 6th, 2008 at 2:41 am
you might also like this totally useless (but nice) flickr mashup that wishes you a happy new year
http://www.artisopensource.net/py/PY.html