San Francisco — Following on the heels of Yahoo that formed deeper integration with Facebook into their products, photo-sharing site Flickr too, is getting some Facebook liking as well, on Thursday unveiled a “new and improved integration tool” that lets users syncs Flickr photos to their Facebook account.
Flickr’s sync tools are developed on top of parent company Yahoo’s Updates platform, and will nudge photo thumbnails, titles and descriptions to your Facebook feed.
Users can now effortlessly connect their Flickr and Facebook accounts, and every time you upload a public photo or video, your Facebook account will be automatically updated as well.
Certainly, Facebook also offers a way to capture in your Flickr images via RSS, as well as about a dozen third-party photo syncing apps that allows you to post to both services at once. If you use any of those tools, make sure you disable them before turning on Flickr’s new features, otherwise you will wind up with duplicate photos in your new feed.
To activate the new Flickr-Facebook consolidation feature, head over to Flickr and turn on the Facebook Updates feature, and click “Connect”. Once that is done, any new photos you post will be pushed on to Facebook. By default only photos marked public will be sent, though you can tweak the privacy settings on your Yahoo Pulse page.
Additionally, Yahoo will continue to enable its visitors consume Facebook feeds on various Yahoo properties and post to the social network from its pages. Once users connect their Yahoo and Facebook accounts, they will be able to see news feeds from their Facebook friends on the Yahoo homepage, the web’s most popular news page, and in their in-boxes in Yahoo Mail, the web’s most popular webmail service.
“As always, you have control over who sees your Flickr images,” says Flickr’s Denise Leung. “Once you activate Facebook sharing, updates are only automatically sent to your Facebook feed when you upload them as public (or when you set a photo to public).”
“We are employing the Yahoo! Updates platform to power this integration,” adds Leung. “Yahoo! Updates enables you to share and view activity across multiple social networks, including on Yahoo!. Your Flickr updates are private on Yahoo! Updates by default and you can easily manage your settings there.”
Yahoo suggested that if you already have the Flickr Facebook app for sharing photos between these two services, you might want to turn it off and use this new feature instead, otherwise all your photos will be shared on Facebook twice.
More information about Flickr’s Facebook integration can be found here.