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Flickr has rolled out a bigger and better slideshow feature. The new Flickr slideshows have larger photos and overlay text for titles and descriptions. The also run against a somewhat classier black background.
The new slideshows are already live and the links can be found next to sets, groups and pools of photographs when you're browsing the site.
The Flickr blog [humorously summarizes][1] the new features thusly:
>Old Version -- sucks
New Version -- rules!
The new version does offer a couple nice changes. There are now speed settings, slow, medium and fast that control how long each images is viewed. Hovering over an image displays an info icon and clicking the icon will show the title and description of each image.
There's also a couple new quick links to jump to the users main page or that photo's main page.
Unfortunately neither of those links worked in Firefox when I tested the new slideshows.
The best change is the larger images. I'll confess that I rarely used the old slideshow features because they defaulted to such small images. The new version uses an image size that seems slightly larger than the standard "medium" size images.
To see the new slideshow features in action, check out the [24 hours of Flickr][2] slideshow.
[1]: http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/05/announcing_slid.html "New Slideshow Features"
[2]: http://www.flickr.com/groups/24flickr/pool/show/ "24 hours of Flickr Slideshow"
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