3 Ways to Share Flickr Photos In Facebook

As Flickr paid users, I prefer to keep all photos in Flickr. There are few reason why I prefer Flickr instead of the likes of Picase or even Facebook itself, but I do like the idea of sharing my Flickr photos with my Facebook friend. There are few ways to achieve that, and it is pretty easy.

1. Official Flickr-Facebook Integration.

The official connection means simple. Here is how doing it, courtesy of one Flickr member, Ivan Walsh.

1. Go to your account (http://flickr.com/account?tab=extend)
2. Activate the link (you may be asked to login if you are not already).

Once you’ve done that, your latest Flickr uploads will be added into your Facebook News Feed and Mini-Feed. Here is how the sample of how it looks like.

flickr facebook connect 3 Ways to Share Flickr Photos In Facebook

2. My Flickr

One of the most widely used Facebook app to share Flick photos. My Flickr let you share the photos in 2 different ways. One is displaying it on the Facebook tab (shown below), and another one display it on the Facebook sidebar. Here is the step by step to get it works. [app link]
1. Choose what photos you want to show by searching
+ http://apps.facebook.com/myflickr/search/
2. Manage the newly created search
+ http://apps.facebook.com/myflickr/manage/
3. In the “Profile Tab” tab, configure and click the “Generate Tab” button.

my flickr 3 Ways to Share Flickr Photos In Facebook

3. Flickr Tab

I haven’t try this out, but it looks promising as well, and even Flickr blog made a post about this app early this year. It display the Flickr photo in 2 ways, one from the Facebook tab, and another one in yours news feed as you upload the latest photos to your Flickr account. [App link]

flickr tab 3 Ways to Share Flickr Photos In Facebook

Preview pictures and videos from Flickr, Picasa, Youtube from within Gmail

Gmail today introduce an enhancement how its handle videos and photos from Picasa, Flickr and Youtube. The new lab feature, will enable photos sent from Picasa and Flickr as well as video from Youtube to be shown within the email itself, without leaving Gmail in order to view it.

In order to enjoy this feature, yYou have to enable it from setting -> lab and enable the setup one by one.

gmail preview Preview pictures and videos from Flickr, Picasa, Youtube from within Gmail

This is how Flickr photos sent to my Gmail looks like.
gmail flickr Preview pictures and videos from Flickr, Picasa, Youtube from within Gmail

Same goes to Youtube, but it works even better. You can play the video directly from within that email. So do you think this cool?

Yeah, and time saver too.

gmail youtube Preview pictures and videos from Flickr, Picasa, Youtube from within Gmail

Flickr remove ‘Set’ limit for normal member

Beside the 200 photos limit, the reason why I moved from normal member to PRO member is because of the limited number of ‘Set’ I can created in Flickr.

In Flickr, Set represent a group of photos. It is common, that we group photos according to the events or subject the photos were taken. That’s where ‘Set’ is very useful in Flickr, in order to heve the all photos nicelly arranged.  But back then, free user are being limit to create only 3 sets per acount.

Fast forward to now, the limit has been lifted (glad to know that). Free members are free to create as many as sets they wanted.  

Do you think 200 photos viewable limit will be lifted too? That’s the time, I’ll turn to free member again..

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Flickr’s browser based file uploads getting better with multiple files selection

flickr uploader web Flickrs browser based file uploads getting better with multiple files selection

New browser-based file uploads

Forget the previous Flickr’s web based file uploads tool that only allows selecting 1 file at one time as well as limited files upload.

The new file uploads, now using Yui Uploader is a step forward to give greater experience to Flickr’s users. You can select multiple files simultaneously, upload them, and monitor the upload progress via new interactive user interface.

Any load failure or error exception will be shown there as well. The short video at the end of this post is demonstrating how it works, plus this screen shot below.

flickr upload progress Flickrs browser based file uploads getting better with multiple files selection

watch the upload progress from interactive UI

If you’re into more technical and are curious about the whole thing, you can read it here, but it is rather long and quite technical and is a complicated post for regular users. Dev might need this.

For end users, it is sufficient to know that you’re no longer has to go through the hassle process of loading your photos into Flickr. Enjoy!

Flickr Uploadr screencast from designingwebinterfaces on Flickr.

Klick upload pictures directly to Flickr from iPhone

It is not surprising, how iPhone topping the list of most pictures uploaded by camera phone category in Flickr. Thanks to iPhone app, you can snap photos and immediately uploaded it right into Flickr without hassle of using any tools of from the Flickr web page itself.

One such application is Klick.  Everything can be accomplished on this app, from taking the pictures until the pictures uploaded into Flickr. All done in less than 3 minutes.

That’s not the only thing this app can do. Just like on Flickr page, you can keep track of your last update as well as your contact recent activities. You can also view your photo by set, jumping to other group and etc. Almost all basic feature that you need to view pictures is available here, except organizing the picture.

One great feature that seems not working here in Malaysia is the feature to locate pictures taken around you. Probably because there is actually no picture taken around my place, or the app can’t detect the exact location where this iPhone is located.

But overall, this app going to ‘live’ longer in my iPhone.

Here, some screen shots that I take to show how this app workings.

Take picture

camera Klick upload pictures directly to Flickr from iPhone

Immediately upload it to Flickr.

upload Klick upload pictures directly to Flickr from iPhone

Other features

more Klick upload pictures directly to Flickr from iPhone

Your recent updates

most updated Klick upload pictures directly to Flickr from iPhone

Your contact recent activities

recent Klick upload pictures directly to Flickr from iPhone