TechnoCloud

As you may notice, I recently added a Flickr feed to the sidebar of TechnoCloud. In part this was to experiment further with Wordpress plugins on a hosted blog, but it was also to give a wider audience to some of my Flickr photos after the original burst of activity died down.

To get a simple feed of thumbnail images to appear on the blog, I experimented with several of the Flickr plugins available on the Wordpress Plugin Directory, but was frustrated that either my version of Wordpress was not compatible, the plugin resulted in a code error or it wasn’t the functionality that I wanted. I won’t name names of the plugins, but needless to say it was a very frustrating evening messing around with code…

Equally frustrating was not spotting the Flickr badge tool buried in the Flickr site nav. Setting it up through the simple wizard was quick and intuitive and mercifully it worked first time.

If only I’d read a blog post like this, I could have saved myself a considerable amount of time…

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Hot on the heels of the impressively silly Twittervision comes the Flickrvision mashup. This combines the latest geo-tagged Flickr images with Google Maps to show images being uploaded in real-time on a world map.

It’s a good visual way of getting a sense of the global community that powers Flickr. There’s also plenty of potential to make this tool more useful by increasingly the levels of personalisation, for example, creating a slideshow of your favourite tags or locations over the last 24 hours.

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If ever you get bored with uploading and categorising your photos on Flickr, have a play with these tools that make use of their API.

Among the highlights:

• Make your own mosaic
• Warholise your images
• Create a magazine or movie cover

Those source photos you uploaded are becoming for many just the raw materials for an increasingly customised web experience.

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