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Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its innovative online community tools that allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. Flickr has a repository that is quickly approaching 1 billion images (as of August 2007).

Here is a common user case scenario:
Flickr user goes on vacation, comes home, has hundreds of beautiful pictures on his camera, he uploads those images to his Flickr account. User also has video from the trip, Flickr doesn't support video, user needs to go to another service. This is the problem with most Web 2.0, all services do a very good job at a task but no one provides an end to end solution for users.

Talk of Flickr having video support has been in the air for quite some time, the latest was Michael Arrington's article on Flickr video.

Images for Flickr screens 2,3,5 are from Manganite.

Original Flickr Interface Support ++
The interface that made Flickr famous is no longer supported. I really liked that interface, so I decided to bring it back, with a few additions. The cool thing about it was the user was able to view dozens of thumbnails at a time, I added the ability for the user to grab a divider and extend the viewable area to hundreds of videos. The user is able to view 208 thumbs and in one click view a video. In my opinion the design of the previous interface was far superior to the current design, it was a big mistake to discontinue this interface. It boggles my mind why big corps think they know better and not roll out enhancements and see what users like, instead of pushing completely new things out.

Ability to switch between old school and new school and hide and show...
Users are able to click on the options button and very easily switch between old and new school interfaces, hide and show info and thumbanils components.

Preview video on Rollover!
Flickr supports a thumbnail preview of the small image on rollover, my version supports the ability to play the actual video on rollover. This is an awesome feature which allows the user to have PIP type interface on rollover.

Fullscreen Support
The flickr version does not allow users to resize the window, if you try, good luck, it doesn't work. My version allows user to not only resize, but go fullscreen. This screenshot is on my 30 inch monitor. I really like the layout of the components at this size.

Video Info Support
Flickr supports image info, my version does also. Users are able to view title, description and link to original video page.

Keyboard Support
My version is able to controlled by keyboard interaction.

Multiple Site
I wanted to add the ability to navigate multiple sites, but not add unwanted design elements to the application. I am very happy with the non intrusive component which allows the user to switch between sites in one click.