Officially Lucky

Prior to this new “sharing” menu, you had to pop through some hoops to find the proper URL for hotlinking a Flickr photo (or grabbing the proper embedding HTML).

Now Flickr has added a cute little AJAX accordian menu that lets you do four different sharing options:

1. “Share This Photo” actually emails it to someone
2. “Grab the link” is a vanilla URL to the page for the photo in question
3. “Embed it”, piggybacks on the terminology used by just about everyone. The concept of “embedding” a picture on a page might seem silly, but its bound to be a very familiar concept with the YouTube crowd.
4. “Blog it” is just a different treatment for the “Blog this” button that’s always been above photos.

In the past, I would mostly just right-click on a Flickr photo, copy the URL to the photo, and be done with it. I’d insert it using my normal method when creating posts. Of course, when it wasn’t my photo (and I was in the clear with licensing), I’d have to do a few steps to get the proper attribution and to link back to the photo page in question.

Now that there’s a very quick way to get Flickr’s sanctioned embedding code, I’ll be very much more likely to go that route.

Thanks Flickr-people!