Long Thumbnails
| Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | --Sean |
It's been almost a year since the addition of video to Flickr -- so-called "long photos" to capture those snippets of your life where a still shot doesn't quite suffice. I've always loved how seamlessly they've been integrated into the site, coexisting peacefully alongside photos with minimal decoration and a seriously understated UI. They've garnered more tools support in the newer versions of the Flickr Uploadr and Flickr is continuing to roll out interesting new video-related features, like the upcoming Flickr Clock, which I know little to nothing about but with which you can start participating through the Flickr Clock group.
It was actually when I was playing around with the Flickr Clock group that I noticed another cute little feature of Flickr Video -- the "long photos" have "long thumbnails". Clicking on the video icon in the lower left corner of a video thumbnail will queue up a tiny, tiny video player to let you sample the video in-line on the page. It really enhances the feeling that, behind every photo, there might be a little story just waiting to come to life.
