Bigger in Belgium?
I just got official word that Zooomr was published in Metrotime again — this time with a full-page spread. And again, here’s the translation with photo of the print:
SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD SHAKES PHOTOSERVICE OUT OF HIS SLEEVE
SAN FRANCISCO: Kristopher Tate has created an online photoservice that
measures up without many problems to established services such as
Flickr. Tate is seventeen and wrote the application in about three
months“Flickr has some catching up to do” headlines TechCrunch, the online
news and web2.0-gossip channel. Zooomr, the photoservice written by the
american Tate is being described as ‘Flickr on Steroids’. Flickr is a
popular internet-service. You can put your pictures on it, and share and
edit them also. The company has recently been bought by portal Yahoo!.
Flickr touts userfriendliness, but Zooomr is said to have that extra bit
more. Testing it unfortunately didn’t work, because Zooomr was
temporary offline, but is online again now. Its servers had buckled
under the immense attention of the readers of Digg and Slashdot.
Zooomr can be used with accounts of different webcompanies, a reaction
to the fact that after the takeover by Yahoo!, Flickr started pushing
the use of Yahoo! accounts. Other improvements include adding audio to
a picture, tight integration with Google Maps so you can pinpoint where
the picture was taken and which pictures are taken in the vicinity, and
also link pictures with people. Zooomr is fast if the server isn’t
overcharged. The pictures can be blown-up with a simple click. Just
like Flickr, you can keep your album private or just for family or
friends.
And the associated photo:
March 16th, 2006 at 4:40 am
here’s the online version
March 16th, 2006 at 10:09 am
it occured to me that since zooomr is flickr on steriods, zooomr may just be having a ‘roid rage
March 16th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Damnit, I’m not a gossip blog, and when are they going to actually ask for permission to use that photo?
Congrats again Tate. Get the site stable, man.
March 16th, 2006 at 11:00 am
michael,
Belgium isn’t all that f’d up about copyrights and mpaa/riaa-witchhunts and such.
(love TC, great site, read it daily, sign my cast!)
March 17th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
I really like this site and intend to start using it along with a moblog site I post loads to — www.popug.com.
One thing I see lacking is much in the way of commenting, which brings people who don’t know each other together.
One way to encourage commenting is a link that can show the last n pics that have comments and what the last comment was.
Examples of doing this are on www.popug.com and www.mobog.com (be careful of the later if at work, mostly porn)
Anyway, great job so far!
June 19th, 2006 at 9:52 am
[…] For the longest time, I wondered how long I could go as a one-man development team — and the answer is pretty far — Surprisingly to the extent where Zooomr has been written-up in newspapers around the globe. […]
October 4th, 2006 at 5:05 am
sspkts37 I’m really impressed!
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