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I love this feature as it adds a lot of life and color on your page. This is Flickr module “basic”, which means we will come up with something more powerful in the future but let see what it does now :

This is what I call the “Slides” layout, you can browse the pictures using the green arrows, it displays the picture in “good” size and when available, a description.

This is the “thumbnails” view, giving an overal view of the last pictures added in a photostream

Now how to use it, just enter a photostream feed url (RSS or ATOM) or a tag like “flower”, select the layout “Slides” or “Thumbnails”, choose how you want the pictures to open, either to the Flickr site or directly in full resolution.

For those not aware of what is Flickr, just go to http://www.flickr.com, it is just one of the best service to store, search, sort and share your photos.

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75 Responses to “Flickr module”

  1. #1 | virtualkid | November 8th, 2005 at 10:06

    Waouw, super intégration du module Flikr, bravo !

    Avec tout ça il n’y a plus beaucoup de place. La prochaine étape serait de développer l’affichage sur plusieurs pages, ça serait bien pratique :)

  2. #2 | Escay | November 8th, 2005 at 10:46

    Nice!
    One problem I have: If I add "flower" I get flowers. Going out of edit mode en selecting the reload icon changes "flower" into "http://www.flickr.com/services/f...
    and my flowers are gone, I would expect a random other set of flowers, or the same set flowers.

    Also my default screensize is 1024×768 and gives me 3 columns of pictures in the ‘Thumbnails mode’ with a large white empty block right next to it. It would be nice if images are resized automatically to have the complete width of the panel, or be centered inside the panel. (I use firefox 1.0.7)

  3. #3 | Netvibes : Florent | November 8th, 2005 at 11:02

    @Escay
    This is fixed !

  4. #4 | Escay | November 8th, 2005 at 11:08

    Fantastic! It works as expected, and the aligment centered is also great!

  5. #5 | TechTiki | November 8th, 2005 at 11:42

    Hehe… really good !
    As virtualkid said, now you really need to add a multiple pages feature…

  6. #6 | FooBar | November 8th, 2005 at 11:48

    If I add the feed http://www.flickr.com/groups_fee... it doesnt work; it shows the name of the feed in the top left corner, but no images are shown from that feed. (maybe a flickr problem?)

  7. #7 | Netvibes : Florent | November 8th, 2005 at 12:02

    @FooBar
    your feed is a Flickr discussion feed, not intended to be used within that module, but via the ‘add content/add my feed’ menu

  8. #8 | FooBar | November 8th, 2005 at 12:05

    Yep, I got it working now. Maybe the Flickr module should handle wrong feeds more gracefully. Thanks.

  9. #9 | christianhauck | November 8th, 2005 at 12:07

    cool: what about a simple option of switching the layout (thumbnails /slides ) directly in addition to using "edit". Have an extra button somewhere?

  10. #10 | Thomas Langer | November 8th, 2005 at 12:17

    Realy cool! Nice Color for my netvibe-Site. I like it very much! Is there a site, where i can find realy nice
    Flickr-RSS-Feed´s ??

  11. #11 | will | November 8th, 2005 at 13:19

    Hi,

    Very nice!

    Took me a minute to learn how to show only my own pictures:

    For anyone unsure: just go to your own personal page at Flickr (the "yours" link), click on the small RSS 2.0 link at the bottom of page, copy that link into netvibes flickr module.

    Formidable!

  12. #12 | will | November 8th, 2005 at 13:25

    @Thomas:

    Here’s a nice Flickr RSS link:

    http://www.flickr.com/services/f...

    (OK its just me and my wife cycling in the alps) :-)

  13. #13 | Meio Bit | November 8th, 2005 at 13:51

    Netvibes Flickr module

    Que o Flickr gera um feed xml automaticamente e que pode ser visto usando QUALQUER agregador eu imagino que não seja novidade. Agora o Netvibes deu um passo à frente, disponibilizando um módulo especial para o Flickr, onde você pode…

  14. #14 | christianhauck | November 8th, 2005 at 14:26

    as for number of thumbnails: 10 does not make sense. Depending on screen size, there’s always empty space, because the only way to organise it without rest is 5 times 2 or 2 times 5. I would propose 12: it’s 2 by 6, 3 by 4, 4 by 3, 6 by 2. More possibilities to have it without extra wide space.
    Or, like other feeds: allow an option about the number of items to be shown.

  15. #15 | sajsemegaloma | November 8th, 2005 at 15:54

    > I would propose 12

    This makes sense.

  16. #16 | Josh | November 8th, 2005 at 16:06

    12 thumbnails would make so much more sense. The extra space on the right is annoying.

  17. #17 | Geoffrey | November 8th, 2005 at 16:44

    great feature!

  18. #18 | d3x | November 8th, 2005 at 17:02

    It works only with Tags and not with Groups to me!
    We should decide the number of image displayed, like for the feeds. Now I have a big square of 9 thumbnails and under it a thumb alone. :(
    There is also a lot of unused space right and left in the box… you can use it for the two arrows of the slide mode, instead of displaying them on the top.

    Why don’t you use a js fade effect for displaying a transition effect in the slide mode?

    And..

    I think it’s boring seeing only one Tag or Group.. The module should read more than one RSS and display what loaded with transition… for eg. in the thumbnails mode it could be comfortable changing RSS view with the arrows (that could be in the unused space of the module).

    That’s all from me.
    Great job, but you can improve it a lot.

  19. #19 | Thomas | November 8th, 2005 at 17:38

    Again another beautiful feature. One idea: add slideshow capability with a delay between slides…

  20. #20 | ali | November 8th, 2005 at 17:55

    Great great feature!!! I was dreaming of ;)

  21. #21 | Andrei B | November 8th, 2005 at 18:07

    This is kind of fun, but isn’t really usefull. I really think Netvibes is great… you guys make my day a lot easier. However, more time needs to be put into existing modules then creating new ones.

    For example, make the Gmail login work, make Bookmarks interact with delicio.us.

  22. #22 | Steve | November 8th, 2005 at 18:44

    GMail Login always works for me.

    Stock Ticker is my dream feature

  23. #23 | vanik | November 8th, 2005 at 22:13

    awesome
    we still need a todo list though!

    hint hint

  24. #24 | Guillaumeb | November 8th, 2005 at 22:18

    vraiment sympa et les thumbnails sont bien pensé.

    Il est vrai que choisr le nombre de ces thumbnail serait assez cool .

    Want good pics? Just tag Adriana Lima… I confess , those are mine :)

  25. #25 | Andrei B | November 8th, 2005 at 22:43

    Gmail login problem:

    create more then one gmail module. Check the mail for one – fine, check the mail for the other – you always go to the account you’re logged into. You can’t switch accounts on the fly. You must logout, then log back in to another account to check it.

    It’s just a small pain… I’m sure it will get resolved eventually.

  26. #26 | Sheryar | November 9th, 2005 at 02:05

    this is excellent, can’t wait for a few more features for it.

    an auto refresh would be nice, so that new images are loaded every x amount of minutes. a tag manager would be great too.

    keep up the great work! i love netvibes, makes life easier.

  27. #27 | Frank | November 9th, 2005 at 14:46

    Auto scrolling the images would be fantastic – save having to click the arrow !

    Have a true slideshow then !

  28. #28 | AnA-l | November 9th, 2005 at 15:11

    ok, maintenant, vous pouvez rayer la mention Flicker module sur la liste en haut a gauche :)

  29. #29 | Cristian Conti | November 9th, 2005 at 19:06

    Awesome!

    Adds more colour to the first webpage i see every morning..

    Now..background and windows colour management (like protopage?) ??

    I’m pushing all my friends to netvibes..

  30. #30 | Cristian Conti | November 9th, 2005 at 19:08

    ..draw a line over "flickr module" in the todo list ;)

  31. #31 | Marcus | November 9th, 2005 at 21:11

    Nice work! ^_^ Would be nice if you could make a calendar module too. :D also, a button next to the reload to "read all" would be nice :)

  32. #32 | Luke | November 9th, 2005 at 22:44

    Would it be possible to have several netvibes pages for a single user? That way i can have multiple homepages in firefox (using the | character), for general news, technews, blogs, forums, etc…
    It would be kinda like having several desktops in your OS.

  33. #33 | jay | November 9th, 2005 at 22:57

    Is it possible to add a flickr url that uses more than 1 tag? e.g. "france" + "interesting"

  34. #34 | ken | November 9th, 2005 at 23:22

    I was a little skeptical of the flickr module at first, thinking I wouldn’t have a use for it. Little did I know that I’d eventually set up 2+ on my own page so I can see great photography the minute i log on. Thanks Netvibes, for getting me into web portals AND flickr!

  35. #35 | Miles to go. | November 10th, 2005 at 18:20

    See the differenece. You have to improve a lot. to become the KING.

  36. #36 | John | November 10th, 2005 at 18:25

    PLEASE GIVE ME AN OPTION TO SEE ALL THE NEW FEEDS( NOT JUST 7 OR 15) WHEN I LOG IN. PLEASE..PLEASE. I FEEL THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL & BASIC REQUIREMENT.

  37. #37 | Colby | November 12th, 2005 at 13:56

    When I tried to stream "Photos from my contacts", it worked until I closed the netvibes.com page. Then I when I returned, it changed back to your original Flickr capture. The same happens with Gmail, by the way.

  38. #38 | jedweb | November 12th, 2005 at 19:23

    For some reason this stopped working correctly for me. Instead of opening images up in Flickr, clicking on a thumbnail simply opens a new window with the netvibes.com page. Anyone else experience this?

  39. #39 | Educational Weblogs | November 13th, 2005 at 04:32

    Flickr module – Netvibes.com Blog

    Netvibes, which is a ajax based personalized portal page, has updated its service to include a Flickr module. Link: Flickr module – Netvibes.com Blog. love this feature as it adds a lot of life and color on your page. This is Flickr module basic, which…

  40. #40 | mouton | November 13th, 2005 at 04:53

    it stopped working for me too, same à jedweb. strange bug. If not displaying thumbnails it works as expected.

  41. #41 | MrNibbles | November 13th, 2005 at 13:34

    bloody good work chaps, this has been my homescreen for ages now, got all my feeds in there and now i get all these lovely web2.0 thingies to play with!!

    With these nuggets of deliciousness you are really spoiling us.

    you are the ambassador.

  42. #42 | smurfy | November 15th, 2005 at 18:17

    great, quick and easy to manipulate…
    just a suggestion: automatic slide show – you can put a toggle button (play/stop) between the 2 green arrow in the slides layout mode.
    thx!
    celine

  43. #43 | hans hansen | November 16th, 2005 at 00:41

    PLEASE:

    the ability to search through our bookmarks is essential

    more rows on the frontpage is essential

    the ability for storing files is essential

    the ability to let the feeds refresh every time-interval you want is essential

    the ability to upload pictures to an imageshoster is essential

    more languages is essential

  44. #44 | chinky | November 16th, 2005 at 00:45

    Some bugs need to be fixed:

    protect the removal of feeds by accident

    bookmarks: when clicking on tags you see al links, when you click default al links close. IT SHOULD BE when you click AGAIN on the TAG the links close!!!

  45. #45 | coloradocrim | November 16th, 2005 at 01:25

    You guys! This portal rocks. I’ve been looking for something like this for a couple weeks and was about to settle for Google when I found this. Amazing. I love it. I’m sure you’ll have to sell to someone and get really rich pretty soon, but I’m enjoying this amazing, free, and ad-free service for now. Thanks!

  46. #46 | Randy Hammons | November 20th, 2005 at 22:30

    Awesome module. Netvibe continues to impress!

  47. #47 | thepisu | November 27th, 2005 at 10:59

    With this new feature, you can see not only Flickr photos, but many many RSS photos feed!!! Two examples:

    http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/i...
    rss.news.yahoo.com/imgrss…

    So I think its would by a good idea to change the name of the feature in "Photo Feeds" or something like it, and collecting a list of possibile photo rss feeds.

  48. #48 | Alf | November 29th, 2005 at 19:08

    I see….but stop doing this stupid things and get to the REAL work!! Tabs, themes…that is what will make your page great in the long run, not this writely and flikr stuff (even though they come in handy)

  49. #49 | d4rko | December 2nd, 2005 at 09:57

    Guys…
    Almost a month without news, are you starting to lose interest?

    Go with it!

  50. #50 | Amar0k | December 2nd, 2005 at 16:46

    I think we really need a forum.

  51. #51 | jeff | December 3rd, 2005 at 23:10

    What are you guys working on?
    should be expecting a big release soon? Every day I look forward to a new service. I love your service, and I hope this isn’t a lost service.

    jeff

  52. #52 | Cyr1c | December 4th, 2005 at 01:46

    nothing to see with this news, but thanks for displaying Taulard.net on your start page ;)

    your work is great ;)

    c’est la classe ;)

  53. #53 | pablotossi | December 9th, 2005 at 01:58

    spammmmmmmmm … Florent RUThere???

  54. #54 | spam spam spam | December 9th, 2005 at 12:32

    spam spam spam…

  55. #55 | Fr@ | December 10th, 2005 at 21:13

    Great work!
    Fast and easy to use!

    Fr@

  56. #56 | Pat | December 14th, 2005 at 05:58

    I’d love to be able to have the feed show those photos that I have marked as my favorites. (there’s no RSS feed or tag capability for this that I know of…)

  57. #57 | Timtom | December 16th, 2005 at 16:24

    Nice job!

    As for the ability to combine multiple tags in the RSS feed (question by jay), it is not possible to do it using native Flickr feeds, but there is a way to do it with a home made script. See
    http://www.timtom.ch/blog/2005/1...

  58. #58 | dc | December 21st, 2005 at 21:37

    I like how modules are being made by users for google/ig–if netvibes had tabs/pages and user-made modules to add in, it would be unstoppable.

  59. #59 | børge | December 29th, 2005 at 18:32

    First: Thanks for a great service! I’ve been using it as my "front page" for a long time now, and I love it!

    But then I just have to say that although this module is great, it really shouldn’t be called "Flickr photos"! Why call it "Flickr photos" when it actually can display photos from any feed containing photos? The correct name of this module should be "Photos". Right now I use it both for displaying photos from Flickr and from the PostSecret blog.

    And, will you ever open up the creation of modules to third-parties like Google have? This will speed up the creation of good modules, and will let you concentrate on making the service itself better.

  60. #60 | PS | January 1st, 2006 at 19:31

    Good one!!

    But I have a little problem. :)

    some pics are in the status of "Only friends & family see this".
    i can see tham on flickr site, but can’t in the Flickr module.
    is there any why to fix this?

  61. #61 | User | January 5th, 2006 at 10:40

    Netvibe calendars via flickr:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/lit...

    Load:
    http://www.flickr.com/services/f...

  62. #62 | splotch | January 5th, 2006 at 23:24

    Add an option to set the number of thumbnails to view. That would be great.

  63. #63 | S13 | January 6th, 2006 at 10:44

    If only netvibes support BBCode so I could create links and add images I like

  64. #64 | Pascal | January 8th, 2006 at 14:19

    hello

    netvibes.com rules! I would like to know if it is possible to select your own or somebody’s flickr’s account. I have tried but could not!
    thanks

    P

  65. #65 | r2d2 | February 9th, 2006 at 00:08

    I have just noticed the Flickr module isn’t working under FF 1.5. Its just gets stuck on "loading…" Its only just recently started doing this. I signed out and tested the default page, still stuck, Works in IE. and Opera ?

    What gives – just me?

  66. #66 | Nicmae | February 9th, 2006 at 11:34

    #63 Same problem for me with Firefox 1.5. No flickr module :-(

  67. #67 | Kevin | February 10th, 2006 at 07:04

    I am having the same issue with Firefox. Just stuck on "Loading …"

  68. #68 | Tariq KRIM | February 10th, 2006 at 12:30

  69. #69 | waitee | February 12th, 2006 at 05:58

    The flickr module is great, can it be made to do slide shows.

  70. #70 | SHan | February 26th, 2006 at 00:33

    Think it would be a great idea for Flickr to have slideshows, i.e. the pictures changes at certain intervals.

  71. #71 | jffarny | June 24th, 2006 at 02:16

    As thepisu said, you can use any RSS feed in Flickr API, but does anybody knows the Flickr API id to add automatically your feed to Netvibes using Flickr API ?
    like this
    http://www.netvibes.com/subscrib...

    Thanks

  72. #72 | mark.us | July 4th, 2006 at 09:17

    Since Opera 9.0 i netvibes displays my flickr pics as a 1px thin line…
    hope this will be fixed… netvibes is good, but in addition with fickr it’s great…

  73. #73 | Bruno | August 6th, 2006 at 08:21

    Flickr is another wonderful web 2.0 application and must be in netvibes, great!

  74. #74 | toastie | August 24th, 2006 at 20:31

    Is the Flickr module broken? For about a week, I have a received an error for all of my various Flickr modules.

  75. #75 | TomC | August 25th, 2006 at 11:58

    Looks like they (flickr) changed something in the feed-url.