Saturday, April 4, 2009

Flickr, the Future of Broadcasting?

Flickr can possibly have a actual real-world application?!

Let's say you have a number of large displays situated around you business. On these displays you show photos, events and marketing messages through PowerPoint. Now you can feed these displays through flickr. Shazam! Flickr is now something more than just an easier way to share photos with your friends.

Simply put your favorite photos in a set, click the slide show button, go full-screen and violá you are broadcasting you photos. The beauty about this is that you don't need the PowerPoint application on every computer you just need an internet connection and a browser. Updating is also supremely easy. Just drop an new photo in the set and arrange the order to your liking.

All this would be total awesomeness if only the slide shows would loop. Flicker built the best slide show solution on the web but forgot to put an option to loop. I wrote flickr a flickrmail. I got several responses, one of which I believed was actually from a person. I hope that they really consider this added functionality.

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