Last night 11:30pm (CST) My Flickr was flipped to v3.0 bringing in new features and compatibility with Facebook’s new layout.
My Flickr can now be placed in its own “Tab” on your Facebook profile. Profile tabs refresh about every hour unless you lock the results in all of the searches in the tab. Users can manage their searches and tweak settings to their liking. Also a sneak preview of My Flickr’s Shares has been worked into this release.
Be aware that Facebook now requires users to grant My Flickr the privilege of posting content to a “Box.” Managed at http://www.new.facebook.com/editapps.php?v=all.
I will be updating the FAQ soon, and a couple of issues still need to be ironed out. Enjoy.
-Kaleb
Happy Wednesday morning to you all!
I have been plowing through My Flickr’s code making sure everything is set and ready for implementing Facebook’s new Profile Tab. I think keeping the normal “Post to Profile” box option open and available is a necessary must also. My goal is to roll-out My Flickr’s Tab page tonight after work and implementing a couple of changes. More info will be available and the FAQ will be updated after the release.
-Kaleb
I am researching into the cause of the My Flickr outage late last night and today. As far as I can tell, only the main page (Search, Preview, Submit) has been affected. This means that Refresh from the Profile Box still works!
I will look deeper into this tonight after work. Thank you for your patience, and sorry for any inconvenience.
-Kaleb
Tonight (Sunday night) Facebook rolled out their new interface to many people and will continue to do so during the next few days. The new interfaces clean-up profiles in an interesting way allowing relevant user information to become more of the focus instead of applications on a person’s main profile page. So far there is no real significant change to Facebook Pages (anyone notice anything?). Most applications have been knocked to the “Boxes” tab in user profiles. Facebook has made it to where you can actually promote an application to an entire tab of your profile.
I have been working like crazy during the last few weeks on several neato features for My Flickr to put the new layout to good use. Right now if you add My Flickr as a New Tab it will just say “Coming Soon” leading you here. But it is truly coming soon. This will be an awesome opportunity to show your friends even more of your awesome photography skills from that party, reunion, concert, or dates at the park right there in your profile.
I will keep yall posted. It is coming and I am extremely stoked about it.
-Kaleb
Hooray! About one year ago after finishing up my first year @UH, I noticed that Facebook was opening their developer platform. Within the first day, I quickly saw that there was not a Flickr application yet. Hoping to save myself and others from the monotonous and drone task of manually finding and linking photos and URLs to Facebook, I decided to develop My Flickr. I knew my PHP/MySQL well and had dabbled in some Flickr API before and started off into the sun (kind of like a cowboy).
It has been the best year ever! I was amazed whenever 500 people who I didn’t even know started using it and then it just kept growing. Wonderful, kind users donated money to help pay for My Flickr’s hosting and bandwidth consumption. Today, My Flickr has over +105,000 users and has just located itself on an ultra-speedy server.
I love developing and using this app and yall are the best users ever! Thanks.
-Kaleb F.