Mini-feature: Auto-embed Flickr sets and tags

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November 14, 2009

Hey guys... still got a bunch of bigger things in the pipe you'll hear about soon, but wanted to let you know that now you can easily embed Flickr sets and tags. Just paste the URL, e.g. from the address bar:

into a post or an email, and you'll automatically get the Flickr embedded slideshow, shown below. (Gallery courtesy razorbern aka Bernie DeChant, a personal flickr favorite, and one of the most talented photographers I have ever met.)

This works for tag pages too! If you're a flickr user, give it a try by emailing post@posterous.com now.

Got a URL or online embed you'd like auto-expanded? Fire us a note at help@posterous.com. We want to make it brain-dead simple to post everything you could possibly think of.

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Posted by Garry Tan

Comments (25)

Nov 14, 2009

Richard Mackney said...

Brilliant new feature! Thank you, very handy

Nov 14, 2009

barbarars said...

cool!

Nov 14, 2009

Richard Mackney said...

I currently use the flickr API to grab the set and provide HTML for Posterous ... See here http://j.mp/4bt1Kw this displays on an iPhone. Maybe Posterous could embed like this in the future.

Nov 14, 2009

Gorazd Božič said...

That's a great feature! Is there a way to modify existing posts that contain links to flickr sets?

Nov 14, 2009

elporto said...

That's a great feature!

Nov 14, 2009

Simon de Turck said...

Tags dont't seem to work. Sets work super!

Nov 14, 2009

Miss Caffeina said...

awsome, super cool feature

Nov 14, 2009

Ady さん said...

Works great. Thanks. ♥ Posterous.

Nov 14, 2009

Carsten Guenther said...

Great! But tell me please: how do i post just a *single* flickr-photo? Emailing the url of a single pic doesn't post the pic but the url!

Nov 14, 2009

Greg Wallis said...

It's cool, it's simple, it works. Probably a definition of Posterous.

Nov 14, 2009

Rebekah said...

This is so cool! Must give it a try...

Nov 14, 2009

Brian Fitzgerald said...

Does this function exist for Picasa yet? If not, will it? Thanks for the continued great work.

Nov 14, 2009

Scott Bedard said...

Great feature. So simple!

Nov 14, 2009

Chris Myles said...

Love the feature.. Is there any reason that my Flickr photostream isn't available? Also it would be great if SOME link was left when the feed is generated.. right now I get no indication that a flickr embed is even available on the page. The same issue occurs on other expanded URLs (Youtube, Vimeo etc) that are not generated via the bookmarklet.

Keep up the great work..

Nov 15, 2009

Marco F. said...

Excellent feature. Now the reverse: I'd like my posterous galleries+tags be posted to flickr as a set with name from posterous post title and tags from posterous post. :-)

Nov 15, 2009

isee said...

Great feature - really innovative. Who says Web 2.0 is dead? Your work is an inspiration to programmers everywhere.

Nov 16, 2009

Kari S said...

would absolutely LOVE to see a similar feature for Picasa. Doesn't work like it does for Flikr. Keep us posted & keep up the good work. Thanks!!

Nov 26, 2009

bing bing said...

great feature

Dec 08, 2009

Prasant Radhakrishnan said...

Glad to see flickr is supported now...been waiting for this one.

Dec 26, 2009

Shirley Man said...

Is there a way to show photo title and description in the embedded slideshow?

Jan 08, 2010

Liz Wong said...

This is great! Thanks!

Jan 10, 2010

David Wogan said...

I was looking for this exact feature. Solid!

Jan 19, 2010

Norbert Mayer-Wittmann said...

Agree this is cool -- and I was also hoping this might be useful for posting a flickr set to my blog ... but I haven't found out whether / how that might work. Alternatively, could you create a posterous set (i.e. the list of thumbnails to click on) + then link to the individual photos on flickr.com ?

:) nmw

Jan 22, 2010

Jen said...

I love this feature and it worked so effortlessly.
Thank you!

Jan 22, 2010

Attila Rainheart said...

Surprise, surprise, again.
I haven't had a flickr account yet, don't know why, but it's high time to get one now!
Thanks, Garry!

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