What's that strip of photos in the left-hand sidebar, you ask? Maybe you didn't, but we're going to tell you about it, anyway.
It's a stream of constantly updating pictures from photo-sharing site Flickr. Flickr's a strangely addictive site that allows you to upload your photos and share them with friends, family, and pretty much whoever wants to go look at the site. The neat thing about Flickr, though, is the ability to "tag" photos, or assign keyword labels to them for easier sorting and viewing later. A couple of AHT's editors use the service and find it helpful in organizing and publishing photos for this and other sites. (And we probably shouldn't tell you this, but you can often get a sneak preview of what reviews we're working on by monitoring our Flickr accounts.)
So what's so cool about "tagging" your photos, you ask? Well, you can go to Flickr and search for photos by tag and then see photos of specific subject matter taken by users all over the world. In addition, you can build a "badge" for your website that displays the latest X-many photos tagged with whatever keyword you want to see. We chose "burger" for the sample badge to the immediate left here and for the one that appears in the sidebar.
It's fun to see the random stream of photos that people are taking and uploading to the site. And if you click on a badge images, you'll be taken to that image's Flickr page, where you can view it at a larger size and, if the user has added comments or notes, learn more about what's going on in the picture.
But just because we specified "burger" in our search parameters doesn't mean we'll always get a hamburger. The cat in the example badge at left here is named "Mr. Burger."
It's not foolproof, but it's fun. Enjoy!
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Flickr also features "Groups" of people who post photos to a "Group Pool" of images based on content. If you're a Flickr user, why not join the Hamburger Group, administered by AHT?
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What's that strip of photos in the left-hand sidebar, you ask? Maybe you didn't, but we're going to tell you about it, anyway.
