Flickr Favorites Browser

So I made my first foray into the land of Flickr programming. I'm using the perl Flickr::API module and it was quite easy to use once I found the Linux Gazette Flickr and Perl article by Jimmy O'Regan to help me get past the perl XPath stuff. The hardest part was coming up with an idea of what to do with it. So this is what I came up with:

What is it? I'm glad you asked. It's a small sample of my Favorites Browser. The basics structure is that pictures in the first column are ones that I have marked as a favorite. The pictures that extend out in the row are the favorites from the person who took the picture that I marked as a favorite.

So the first picture in the table was taken by bopuc and the next three are his first three public favorites. Go one down, rinse, lather and repeat. Obviously this is a very static view and I plan to add more interaction. Some ideas that I'm tossing around are dynamically rebuilding the square when you click on an image, being able to enter a username or e-mail address for a starting point and maybe some kind of DHTML-fu where I use the XMLHttpRequest object to pull in favorites and build some kind of Boogle™ like game board without having to reload the page.

Anyway, this is how far I got last night before I went out to watch movies with "the guys." I can't spend all Friday night geeking out...

Update:

Some issues that I need to deal with:

• If the first column contains two favorites from the same person, the rows will be the same. I should pull more photos to make sure that doesn't happen.
• If the person doesn't have enough favorites to complete the row, the square effect is botched.