WP-Cumulus for Flickr anyone?
This distracted me from client work yesterday. I tried modifying WP-Cumulus to load thumbnail images from a Flickr RSS feed instead of passing it WordPress tags. The results surprised me, because I was expecting to see all sorts of depth sorting weirdness. However, because of the limited number of images and the way I distributed them over the sphere, you can hardly spot any quirks.
Would you like me to pursue this further, and possibly release a WordPress plugin? Or perhaps I could convert it into an HTML widget that works on all types of websites. I’d have to look into that, but it might be fun. And what would I call it? Every cool-sounding name I’ve been able to come up with turned out to be taken by some Web 2.0 startup I knew nothing about 
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UPDATE: Pssttt… click here if you’d like to try this on your blog or website .
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How about FlickrFloater, Flying Flickr or FloatFlick?
Comment by suzero — February 12, 2009 @ 11:58 am
I know I would love it.. especially embedding this on a single page. Perhaps with a name like WP-FlickrCumulus you get best of both worlds
Comment by Remkus — February 12, 2009 @ 12:20 pm
Cumulus was a pun based on the whole cloud metaphor, so it doesn’t really apply here, and I’d actually like to leave the WP bit out as well. I might not make it a WP plugin. Too bad ‘Flickrsphere’ is used as the Flickr equivalent of the blogoshpere.
Thumbsphere?
Comment by Roy — February 12, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
There is certainly no reason it has to be exclusive to Flickr, though I don’t know of *any* other online gallery options out there.
You could go old-school dork and call it “Beholder.”
Comment by Olaf Gradin — February 12, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
PicFloater, IconCumulus, call it whatever you like, but please RELEASE IT NOW!!!!
Comment by DeepVoid — February 12, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
Come to think of it, Tumblr would have been a very logical name for this…
Comment by Roy — February 12, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
I think convert it into an HTML widget that works on all types of websites would be superb
Comment by Jason Murray — February 13, 2009 @ 2:52 am
AMAZING!!!
please make it html
think of the poor bloggers like me
Comment by thesikaleon — February 13, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
Cool!
Make it in html too.
Comment by Blahhala — February 13, 2009 @ 1:22 pm
This tagcloud is really amazing – we would like to try and convert it to a plain old html installation that takes an array of data from .php or .asp or .jsp or .js and renders the cloud – any guidance on how your arrays are set up and fed into the swf would be helpful!
Beautiful work – and the flickr version is great too.!
Comment by Streamfinder — February 13, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
Looks good, I would love to add this to my blog.
Comment by koffiekitten — February 13, 2009 @ 10:47 pm
I would call it Flumulus!
Comment by R@lf — February 14, 2009 @ 11:00 am
I was thinking, if you click on the thumbnail, the flash loads the picture up with a little click to get back to the sphere. This will be such an awesome gallery plugin. Since not everyone uses flickr, support for other img hosting sites will be great.
+1 on html version
Comment by Jeffrey — February 14, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
@Jeffrey: I’ll consider that for version 1.1 or 2.0 or whatever
For now I’m concentrating on getting it to run as a very generic HTML widget, and it’s coming along nicely.
Comment by Roy — February 14, 2009 @ 8:24 pm
thanks for the decision to make it in html
you are the best!!!
the WP Culumus is the best pplug in I ever had in my site.
Comment by thesikaleon — February 14, 2009 @ 11:11 pm
flickr-orbis? flicr-globus? flickr-horizon?
I’m waiting for the html widget, I wonder if I manage to make it work with cakephp…
Thanks.
Comment by Robert — February 15, 2009 @ 11:51 am
It’s awesome. I’m waiting for your html release. You should name it after yourself because it will probably spread around a lot.
roys photo sphere
FishTanck or Roys PhotoTanck
3D thumb sphere
You could add a snow globe effect to shake it up when you want to see different thumbs if there were a lot of photos.
some dumb ideas for you.
Comment by peacock — February 15, 2009 @ 1:28 pm
Do you have modifay *.swf to read fail on http://mysite.com/thumbs/ or … , and create special file ( txt , php ,htm or rss2 xml ) to reade link thumbs and pages link … bla bla …
Comment by Thunder — February 27, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
@Thunder: I’m not quite sure what you’re saying, but right now the swf is made to work with Flickr feeds exclusively.
Comment by Roy — February 27, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
see mine site how i added it in my theme in a new place www . dadyal .info
Comment by Naeem — March 13, 2009 @ 6:25 pm
Thanks for your information i have try it.. GOOD WORK
Comment by saya — July 24, 2009 @ 8:32 am