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A Glimpse of Zooomr 2 on Google

by Kristopher Tate | 6 June 2006 | Announcements | 12 Comments

I hope everyone is enjoying their week! The weather has been pretty spectacular today.

Though, I have a goodie for people to play with until Zooomr 2 shortly arrives. It’s called ZWidget and it utilizes some of Zooomr 2’s new TagMap features and Google’s Personalized Homepage. Here’s what it looks like:

ZWidget on Google Homepage

To play with it, simply click on the Add to Google button below!

Add to Google

Enjoy,

Kristopher Tate

12 Comments

  1. Dana S. said on 7 Jun 2006 at 9:25 am:

    VERY cool… so this is just a one-location demo until Zooomr 2 is released? Looking forward to adding my own location to MyGoogle.

  2. Kristopher Tate said on 7 Jun 2006 at 9:30 am:

    It supports all locations, all you need to do is type-in the location on the edit menu :)

    Zooomr 2’s TagMap will also be much more impressive — again, this is merely a glimpse.

    -Kris

  3. shane said on 7 Jun 2006 at 10:10 am:

    i think a great feature to add for zooomr2 would be the ability to geotag multiple pictures to the same place.

    Great work…I look forward to zooomr2 :-D

  4. Dana S. said on 7 Jun 2006 at 1:17 pm:

    Haha… that dang edit menu… it’s almost as if I forced myself to ignore that! Thanks and keep up the great work Kris!

  5. Oblomov said on 8 Jun 2006 at 2:38 am:

    Hm there’s something wrong, setting the location doesn’t seem to work for me … I’m using Opera 8.54 on Windows XP

  6. Spinfist said on 8 Jun 2006 at 4:48 am:

    I did notice that when I entered my city location of “Marquette, MI” it centers about a good hour’s drive ESE of my city. Which is odd because other web apps using Google Maps gets it about where it should be. Only thing I can think of is that Marquette is also the county I’m in, but I don’t think it even reflected the center of Marquette County.

    Everything worked fine when I used my zip code instead.

  7. Dana said on 8 Jun 2006 at 8:14 am:

    Spinfist, did you try changing the zoom level to region and see if that view looks better? However that’s odd that other Google maps seem to get it right. Hopefully when Zooomr 2 is released we can give it an actual address as well as a city. *hint hint* ;)

  8. Spinfist said on 8 Jun 2006 at 11:48 am:

    @Dana: It doesn’t seem to make a difference. Besides, the region view is way too zoomed out for my smaller town region.

    Also, Kris and others, I noticed that as of today, I get prompted for a username and password when I hit my personalized Google page. Would you like a screen grab?

  9. Kristopher Tate said on 8 Jun 2006 at 11:58 am:

    Spinfist: No no, that will be alright, I know what is going on — it should be fixed now, or will be shortly when the cache updates.

    -Kris

    UPDATE: Please click on the “Add to Google” link above for an updated version.

  10. Spinfist said on 8 Jun 2006 at 4:57 pm:

    I noticed that it’s not prompting anymore. And that’s with the initial version still. All the same, I’m going to update it now. Thanks!

  11. Oblomov said on 9 Jun 2006 at 12:16 pm:

    Nope, still gets the wrong location when I type “Catania, Italy” it gets to the middle of the ocean … I think at latitude/longitude 0/0 …

  12. 泛泛其景 » Zooomr:又一个Flickr翻版 said on 10 Jun 2006 at 12:21 pm:

    […] 另外，Zooomr最近还推出了Google个性化的插件。下了一个，总体觉得没有太大用处，尤其一大堆缩小的照片挤在一起，根本看不清。想试的话，点击下面的按钮加入。 […]

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