Hitting the right notes
| Friday, October 19th, 2007 | --Sean |
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Who wants to read that much anyway? It's all well and good for me to include this screenshot of the Guitar Hero song list, but that doesn't at all help me draw attention to the indisputable proof that I've spent too much time playing it. For that, dear readers, we use Flickr notes.
You've hopefully used this feature before, because it's quite handy. When you click the "Add Note" button at the top of a photo page, you're presented with a resizable rectangle that you can move around to frame any sort of interesting feature of the photo. You can then add a little descriptive note that'll show up for anyone who moves their mouse into that area. The outlines of all of the notes will pop up whenever you mouse over the image in general, so people will never miss out. You can also add notes to other people's photos if they've set up their preferences to let you, in case you see anything neat or want to provide a comment that has a little bit more context.
It's my secret hope that we'll eventually add the feature to allow you to use notes to tag your contacts in your photos, similar to how Facebook does things. Noting that fact may have been my main impetus for writing this entry.