Robert Hall tipped me off to this. Badgr is a very cool Flash-based badge that allows you to display your Flickr photo stream. Unfortunately I’ve switched to storing my photos at Phanfare and they don’t appear to have a similar RSS feed. I’ll have to make a few calls… ;-)
If you’re seeing this it means I’ve screwed something up while trying to implement SWFObject on my site. I assure you it is my fault and not a problem with SWFObject. I often uncover problems with relative links when working with this blog so that’s probably the culprit. I will try to fix this.
Thanks Mike, I’ve used your description of badgr, it summed it up more succinctly than I’d done. ;)
Just a quick mention badgr2.0 is now available, it provides lots of new features and flexibility, including any grid size, customizable frame, flickr sources like groups, tag searches (your photos or everyones), photosets and favourites as well as by your flickr id.
There’s also a neat construction kit built with Flex 2.0 so you don’t have to learn a bunch of variable names and settings, you just change the settings and it builds the code for you.
Here’s a link to the release post.
http://mentalaxis.com/words/2006/08/09/badgr-20-and-construction-kit-released/
Thanks, Jason. Nice work on badgr. I like that you’ve opened it to Flex as well. You should share this with Ted Patrick (onflex.org), our Flex Evangelist.
MD
Thanks Mike, I’ll let Ted know about it, there’s been some major updates with it and the Flex construction kit is quite a nice tool… There’s also a standalone ID lookup tool made with Flex (http://www.mentalaxis.com/idfindr) which is built into the construction kit (the built in version is slightly more feature rich – at time of writing)
I wonder if this can get me a freebie to the Flash on the Beach? (pretty please ;) )
there’s also a dedicated page for badgr now…
http://www.mentalaxis.com/badgr