CoolFlick: Flickr Embedding Cooliris Style . now thats awesome
Cooliris is one of the best ways to flip through photos, enabling you to scroll through hundreds of photos effortlessly. Flickr is one of the best sites to search for photos. Combine the two and you’ve got CoolFlick, a service that lays Cooliris’ thumbnail scrolling on top of Flickr – all from within the browser window.
Here at ReadWriteWeb we’re big fans of visualizing data and content. When it comes to photos, Cooliris is one of our favorites. We’ve got it plugged into Firefox and on our iPhones. But, sometimes, it would be nice to have quick access to the Cooliris scrolling without having to install a browser plugin or having to jump out of the browser environment.
That’s where CoolFlick comes in handy.
To begin searching for photos with CoolFlick, you can either go directly to the CoolFlick site to enter your query or you can string it into a URL like http://www.coolflick.org/index.php?q=jinaa.com. That’s it. Using the search terms, CoolFlick loads up a series of matching photos. Then you can begin panning side-to-side and zooming in for more detail just like you would with Cooliris.
But here’s something even better: You can take that view with you and share it with your friends. CoolFlick provides an embed code that allows you to add Cooliris viewing functionality to any site you’d like.
