Zoomr
Fri, 12 May 06, 12:47 am
Zooomr is a digital photo sharing website and web services suite similiar to Flickr. The site was created in 2005 by Web developer Kristopher Tate of BlueBridge Technologies and launched it on 1 Mar 2006. Basically, zooomr is Flickr put on steroids
In many ways, the site appears to be modeled after another well-known photo site called Flickr, and while the two services do share a number of so-called Web 2.0 features such as tagging, Ajax and RSS, both sites offer features the other does not.
Zooomr in particular has less-restrictive upload limits for users with free accounts than Flickr, all beta accounts feature a 50 megabyte upload capacity and unlimited storage and also allows users to GeoTag their photos in close integration with Google Maps using a feature called LightMap.
Another notable difference which sets Zooomr apart from similar sites is multi-login capability, via OpenID and XMPP. OpenID allows users to register accounts with unaffiliated websites (in particular LiveJournal), and log into Zooomr with that same account without having to type the password a second time.
Recently added features also include LightBox, which resembles a slide show; Zooomrtations, which allows users to append short audio commentary to individual photos; and PeopleTags, which allows users to add themselves inside of photos, along with searching for people inside of photos.
For now, the Zoomr's setback is the lack of advanced photo album and upload facilities. It does not yet allow users to organize their uploaded photos into albums, nor is there any straightforward way to upload many photos at once without selecting them from the local filesystem individually.
Like Flickr, Zooomr enables users to licence their photos in different ways. Though photos default to All Rights Reserved, users may opt to licence their photos under various Creative Commons licencing schemes.
At the time of this writing, Zooomr is also localized in 15 locales (Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English (UK & US), Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese (BR), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). This is perhaps most important because out of all the Web 2.0 sites, Zooomr appears to be the only one supporting full-blown localization for its users.
Check out Techcrunch's review on Zoomr for a different perspective.
Sat, 13 May 06, 2:58 am at 2:58 am
I’ll take a look at this one I think. Thanks for bringing it to attention. Everyone knows Flickr by it being everywhere, but it does have it’s flaws: particularly the navigation, it’s appallingly hard to find what you want to do quickly.