I had some more ideas about what to do with my flex flickr widget the other day. Inspired by Dunstan's old blog that he never updates, I though I should get the widget to update related to my situation.
For the first incarnation (and I have many more ideas of how to do this) it will update with the time of day to show a representation of where I am (London). It then selects a random photo in the top 20 results to show.
Clicking the image now updates the photo from the original result set, rather than making a new request, which has made it a million times faster.
The only problem is the difficulty I have searching and selecting images. I am currently using the tag search to bring back images of London plus Morning, landmarks, afternoon, evening or night. landmarks you say?? Well the thing is, no one seems to tag photos with day or noon, people only tag things that aren't the norm.
So I am planning on adding some more photos of my own that I can use, or find out a clever way I can do some self tagging, perhaps with favourites or something.
The next step is going to have to be integration with another service, perhaps twitter, weather.com or in the future fireeagle.