My Flickr!
| Monday, May 5th, 2008 | --Sean |
The My Yahoo! Blog will occasionally post about new modules that they especially like, which is a great way to find solid new additions to your My Yahoo! page (another pretty cool way -- browse over to the What's New page, listed in your page navigation, which presumably is programmed to hold a couple of editorially favored modules that you can drag into your own My Yahoo! page). For instance, one of their recent entries was for a new Flickr module, which let's you pull in recent content from Flickr in either thumbnail or slideshow form. I actually bring this up specifically because the default view, showing you your own photos, didn't seem particularly useful to me, given that you should be pretty well aware of which photos that you've uploaded and likely will not need to be reminded of them every morning that you visit your My Yahoo! page. However, it's loaded with options -- you can pull in photos from your Sets, Groups, Contacts, and Favorites, or just Everyone's photos or the most Interesting among those -- and it does remember those preferences (as well as the choice of thumbnail vs. slideshow view) after reloading, making it a far more exciting module. It was a nice amount of persistent personalization that really does make sense for something you'd want to put into Your Yahoo!.