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Comprehensive List of Flickr Tools
I love Flickr, I am a massive fan of the service. While I had my own picture galleries, first hand coded then later using nGallery then CommunityServer, Flickr blows all the others away due to their excellent community and great UI. Another big plus in Flickrs favour though is their API which allows developers to build their own tools on top of or to work with their service.
This blogger has collected an excellent list of Flickr Tools
The Flickr API is not so bad to work with either, I wrote my own screensaver and a tool for downloading pictures. I see looking down the list other programmers have gone much further and built some really imaginative software.
Other picture services startup every day, who can possibly compete with Flickr when they have this kind of community support?
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DSLRBlog Flickr ShowPic – Show a recent pic from your stream using simple image tag
Have you ever wanted to link to your most recent pic in another website outside of Flickr, for example your homepage, blog, or as a forum avatar? Now you can with our latest service.
DSLRBlog Flickr Show Recent Pic Thingy
You can also navigate from the menu on the right.
Enter your username, what size to display and optionally a tag. When you submit you will be shown the HTML of an image tag and what the image will look like. You can then use this HTML in your website profile, or just the URL as your forum avatar/signature (for those forums that allow you to use external URLs) etc.
The way it works is to take your input then redirect you to the most recent, relevant image. So I could use the following URL
http://dslrblog.com/showpic/chrisgarrett/small/experiments/
This would be processed to find my most recent “experiments” tagged image and take you to the small version of the image. No scripting required, just a simple image.
As you can see there is a complimentary service called GoPic for creating links that always point to the most recent (optionally filtered by tag) picture also.
Please try it out and see what you think?
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