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Embedding Images from Google Drive

via GoogleSystem While Google Drive lets you upload any file, the support for files that can't be edited using Google Docs/Sheets/Slides is limited. For example, you can embed PDF files and videos, but Google doesn't offer permalinks for images. So you've uploaded a photo to Google Drive and the only options are to download the file and link to the image page. But what if you want to embed that image in a web page or simply post a direct link to the image? You may think that right-clicking the image lets you copy the image URL, but that's not true. Even if you check the source code of a page or use features like Firefox's "view page info", you'll get a link that doesn't work. Fortunately, there's an easy solution - replace this URL from the address bar: http://docs.google.com/file/d/FILEID/edit with:  http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=FILEID (where FILEID is a long sequence of digits and letters).   This only works if you...

The Power of reMap compels you! (to visualize...)

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Google Images is a pretty neat way to classify and browse images, but bestiario has done one better w/ Tessera .  It uses a navigation methodology based on semantics (reMap), with tags applied using their own semantic engine.  They've applied their reMap interface to three specific photography collections, to wit, Changing New York, 1935 - 1938, Berenice Abbott, from the New York Public Library's photostream Chicks, by merkley Proyecto agua (water project), Antonio Guillén and students from the Instituto Batalla de Clavijo     Its truly fascinating, and mind-blowing in its elegance - go check it out! (The image above and below are just that - images. Go the original via the links above...)