We’re Live, Baby!
Okay… we’re live! 
How’s it look? Send your feedback here, please.
-Kristopher
(PS, I’ll shoot a post with a list of all of the new stuff tomorrow)
EDIT: Google users, please try your TPass again. Everything seems to be working again now.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Wow, talk about just in time!
July 17th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
congrats! jus waiting for my TPass and i’ll take a look around.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Why I’m still redirect to the countdown page?
July 17th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
looking great!
my TPass isn’t hurrying to appear.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Hey guys,
I’m being asked to switch my google based account to openid, but when I request a temp pass to be sent to my gmail, I never receive one.
Please help, as I want to check out 2.0
July 17th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Tinyay, please make sure that your browser or proxy is not caching the homepage.
If the problem persists, please drop another comment — thanks.
-Kristopher
July 17th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
it looks very nice. but i cannt receive tpass in my gmail.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Same here with Google … I’ll wait all of the ten minutes for the TPass to expire and then try one more time.
I guess that your mail agent is a little overloaded right now though, with all the gmail accounts being migrated to openID
July 17th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Another on the TPass
July 17th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Looking good, but from the UK it’s feeling a bit slower than the previous version. That might just be transatlantic traffic, or everyone pounding the site
July 17th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Interesting Duncan. The server is hosted in California, so it might be a host of issues. Please let me know if the problem persists — thanks.
-Kristopher
July 17th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Congrats guys, I bet it’s been one hell of a busy weekend. Looking Good
July 17th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
Loggin with my old occount (hardskinone.myopenid.com) Zooomr created a *new* account (12974@Z01). But my old one is still live: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/hardskinone
Congrats
July 17th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
[…] Zooomr 2.0 終於 Go Live，之前因為 Zooomr 網站受攻擊及其他問題的關係（詳情請參考 Zooomr blog 內最近數篇文章），導致這次升級推遲，新的功能遲些會在 Zooomr Blog 內公佈，我真的要試試有什麼改進。 […]
July 17th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
＠Kristopher, problem solved after cleared the browser cache. Thanks.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
sorry, i have received the tpass now.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
it seem to have no improvement.
i hope it will be stronger.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
I logged in with my old account through Meetro:
(http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/zooomrhits). I was asked to create a new openid on to be merged, but it’s created a new account: (http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/11644@Z01
Like hardskinone above, the old account is still live, and none of my pics are in the new account. Is the merge supposed to happen straigh away?
July 17th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I’m having the same problem as above and my old account is live too.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Congrats on the launch! I don’t seem notice much of a difference aside from SmartSets, but hopefully your changelog will enlighten me.
Well it seems the owner property for SmartSets doesn’t seem to work on yourself, which makes personal sets difficult. I hope that’s a bug and not intended. There’s also not as much functionality with sets as I had hoped, such as the ability to sort sets and photos, select a default picture for the set, etc. Also I don’t see an option for sets within sets (at least I can’t figure it out), which I believe there was an uproar for.
I thought there were going to be groups and forums?
I guess I just expected too much, and the long downtime really built up the hype and expectations for me. Congrats on finally getting it up though!
July 17th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Alright, the Tpass worked, the openID merge, too.
Just one thing is worrying me: The Umlauts does not work. Inserting Umlauts in the description makes the text break.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Kristopher-
There’s still no way of reading geotags in exif tags for automatic tagging? or is GPSPhotoLinker using the wrong exif tag name?
July 17th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Excellent service, thank you very much: I logged in via gmail and merged with the test openID account I had create a long time ago. Merging was totally smooth. Congratulations.
However, I still can’t proitize my account because the URL to my blog post is still not recognized as having Zooomr photos.
The URL in question is
http://oblomov.ilcannocchiale.it/?id_blogdoc=1084413
July 17th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
@Kris - When I can login, I’ll get a better measure of the speed…
Typekey login doesn’t appear to work from my end right now - I’ve tried two different browsers, and two different URLs (one is the profile.typekey one, the other is my own site using the .delegate link code. Who’s at fault?
July 17th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
Wow … So, the background color is different. I think you guys have a few things to learn about marketing. This was definitely the worst web “launch” in recent memory.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Hey Guys, great update!
When are we going to get bulk uploading abilities?
Regards
Ray
July 18th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Ok, first comment while browsing about my new Zooomr account: the overall feeling is rather smoother, but some functionality (like, changing the public/private/for friend’s only state of a photo) is missing, which is rather a PITN.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:03 am
@Duncan - Typekey? Zooomr uses OpenID. Unless I’m mistaken, I guess you’re at fault.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:10 am
@Allen - Typekey offer openID functionality, I’ve been using Zooomr pre 2.0 with typekey just fine.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Congrats guys, I’m logging in now to check it out.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:14 am
Hihi. I started uploading a backlog of around 800 photos to Flickr about 20 minutes before 2.0 went live, shame on me. No matter, I can’t log in any how. ):
I’m using LJ’s openid service, but linking to it from my site/subdomain. I get the error…
Error retrieving identity URL: No usable OpenID services found for that URL
When I use my LJ subdomain I’m requested to make a new account. No rush on fixing any of this, but if you do thanks. (:
July 18th, 2006 at 12:18 am
I already love it! New GeoTagging is just superb!!
July 18th, 2006 at 12:24 am
Login with openid or merging of google-tpass with open id seams not to working for the openid provided by claimid.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:31 am
Hmm You sure about that TPass thing working for Google? I got the TPass, put it into there and it just got me back to the first merge page. nothing happened =/
July 18th, 2006 at 12:33 am
ahum… nm :p
July 18th, 2006 at 12:35 am
Ok, got a slight problem. I originally signed up for Zooomr with my gmail/google ID. After deciding I didn’t want to deal with the TPass situation, I created an openID account. Still not as clean as I’d like - I still think a Zooomr account is best - but at least my sessions weren’t timing out, and having to use a different pass all the time. So I had two different accounts, mostly using the openID one. So now with 2.0, I go to sign in, and see that I may merge my accounts. So I sign in with my google account and TPass, it asks for my openID identity, cool, I provide that… And now when I login with either account, all I see are the few photos I had as my google account. They don’t appear to have ‘merged’, but rather my old google account has ‘taken over’.
It gets more interesting: So I searched my old hometown for geotagged photos, because I was the only one that put some there. Marquette, MI, some breakwall photos on Lake Superior. Those said uploaded by “Spin” which is the name that USED to appear when I logged in through OpenID. Click that…and there’s all the pics I used to have as Spin on my openID account. But I can’t access them now. Is this making any sense? It’s confusing I know.
Reason I ask is because I got my openID account bumped up to Pro status as per your blogging deal. Now when I log into that Pro openID account, as I said, I only see my account as it appeared when logging in with my old google account.
Confusing! I know! But feel free to drop an email and I’d be happy to provide you my usernames for lookup. Looks like a bug to me. What do you think?
I’m in no hurry, so, no worries. I just wanted to let you know.
(Glancing up through posts, I see a few others have encountered similar. Hope my abundance of info helps you out here.)
July 18th, 2006 at 12:39 am
Ok, maybe you should not worry too much about it, but under IE7 Beta3 the Google map appears shifted halfway to the right. No problem on Firefox, obviously.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:40 am
cool. congrats
July 18th, 2006 at 12:44 am
Since we’re bug storming: apostrophes in comments aren’t well accepted. I’m trying to write:
Mi sa che la stanchezza non c’entra con l’effetto mal di mare, ho proprio le mani di pastafrolla.
as a comment to one of my pics, and it comes out as
Mi sa che la stanchezza non c'
as if the ‘ doesn’t get properly encoded. However, clicking on the comment still brings up the original one so it’s there, but doesn’t display properly.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:45 am
I like the old way the code for pasting into blogs used to show up in a box under the picutre on pages for specific sizes of pictures.
One thing that would make it even better is to add “display: block;” to the code. Without that, the Zooomr pictures on my wordpress blog look bad for IE users. Here’s an example of what I mean:
Punk Show
Hosted on Zooomr
July 18th, 2006 at 12:46 am
Oops, that was silly of me. You can see the code I use to embed photos on my blog at:
http://toshuo.com/2006/a-nasty-false-cognate/
July 18th, 2006 at 12:47 am
Hmm, it seems like there are lots of problems about openID and gmail accounts. However, Zooomr is really better and faster. Good job.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:48 am
similar problem, i merged GoogleID (my main id on zooomr before) with a brand-new openID, it worked. and then I remember my old openid, which is also on zooomr already but seldom used, I want to merge GoogleID to this old openID, but it doesnot work.
I don’t lost any thing and i have 2 seperate zooomr accounts now, but i do like the old openid as my only zooomr account. how to do?
July 18th, 2006 at 12:49 am
zooomr2
good work! I love it. Especially the concept of SmartSets. But I looks like the combination of filter-criteria is not really working: I tryed ‘Owner: match all of: fienna’ AND ‘Views: is greater than: 10′ … I get ‘0 photos’
anyway. I love it!
July 18th, 2006 at 12:51 am
Public/Private problem. How do we change the visibility? I’ve spent the last half hour searching for something like that and didn’t find it.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:53 am
I can’t merge my gmail account to merge with a getopenid identy I just signed up for.
July 18th, 2006 at 1:07 am
[…] Zooomr 2.0 has gone live finally, after a weekend of fending off a DDOS attack and making last-minute improvements to the code. So far it seems most excellent, and I’m looking forward to exploring the new site and uploading a bunch of new photos. […]
July 18th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Is it just me? I logged in using myOpenID, I was prompt to enter information (name, email,etc) like I was first signing up. When I got the welcome page, I noticed that I didn’t have the Pro account anymore and my photo is missing. I signed up for the free pro account couple days before the big upgrade and now things are different.
What could be the problem? Anyone else having this problem?
July 18th, 2006 at 1:09 am
Awesome! I love the new look to the site, and can’t wait to properly delve into all the features
July 18th, 2006 at 1:34 am
I can’t seem to be able to merge my gmailtemp account with openid. I login with the temp gmail id, but it doesn’t ask me to merge with my existing once it’s found. I’ve tried in both IE and FF.
Also, I don’t see the option to import Flickr photos yet. Is that coming later, or can I just not find it?
July 18th, 2006 at 1:35 am
The only thing I expected from 2.0 is still missing (or maybe it’s there and I can’t see it ?!). I’m talking about the ability to automatic post on your blog sending an email to Zooomr (Flickr does it). It’ so fun to send pic taken from your mobile directly to your blog.
July 18th, 2006 at 1:53 am
I can’t see an option to change the settings on a picture to make it public or private once it has been uploaded. The only way I can see to do this is delete and re-upload, which would be a real pain.
Also, I emailed some pics from my phone about an hour ago and they still haven’t shown up on my photo page yet.
July 18th, 2006 at 2:05 am
Zooomr 2.0
Il servizio web per l’hosting di fotografie Zooomr è di nuovo online. Nei giorni scorsi il sito era rimasto offline a causa di un pesante aggiornamento della piattaforma poi ritardato, dicono gli autori, da un DoS di natura non specificata.
Gli …
July 18th, 2006 at 3:04 am
It seem that i can’t upload photos after having upgraded to Pro (thanks a lot for that offer anyways
).
July 18th, 2006 at 3:07 am
GREAT!!!
Will an upload tool available?
July 18th, 2006 at 3:11 am
Angus: I am having the exact same problem.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:26 am
Well, that wasn’t correct, but I’m unable to upload “large” Photos (up to 800×600 works, 1024×768 and above not), the “Please hold-tight… We are currently receiving your photos”-message remains, Firefox and bandwidth monitor indicate upload is finished.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:26 am
I can’t upgrade to Pro! I’m trying to contribute to this great thing you’ve built Kris by giving you my money but you won’t let me!
I’d really like to use Zooomr to host all my wedding and honeymoon photo’s but with nearly 2000 photo’s unless I get a Professional Account I’ll have to go somewhere else!
Love smartsets btw.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:44 am
I also had occasional uploads going dead with no warning. However, retrying the upload has always worked for me, and no extra bandwidth was taken from my month quota (which is very nice)
July 18th, 2006 at 3:47 am
Smooth, man, smooth. I like the mass geotagging. That saves a few steps/time. You are on your way to great things, keep it up!
July 18th, 2006 at 3:49 am
Having the same problem as Angus, logged in via OpenID (the only account I’ve had) and it asked for name and email address and then took me to what appears to be a new account (13080@Z01) whereas my old account and photos are still active (wacko42).
July 18th, 2006 at 3:53 am
Awwww crap! It was Firefox’s good ‘ol “A script on this side may be busy…”-warning i tend to miss while browsing through dozens of tabs
so… nevermind
July 18th, 2006 at 4:36 am
Well done, it looks very good.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:02 am
Good Job Guys
July 18th, 2006 at 5:03 am
Absolutely loving the new geotagging setup, and the smartsets are very nice as well.
The only thing that I wish I could do is stay logged in more than a couple of hours.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:29 am
Kris….
glad you made it to the other side…
I know how painful it was….
now, there’s only one problem….
ALL MY PHOTOS ARE GONE!!!! no matter where I look.
please help
July 18th, 2006 at 5:31 am
never mind!!!!!
problem created by your login system…it logged me in as someone else….
this login process is way too complicated…even for experienced users….I’ve had many people that I’ve tried to get into zooomr give up cuz the login process is way too painful
July 18th, 2006 at 5:38 am
schwerd, I’m glad that you’ve gotten the hang of things…
The newer stuff is more clean-slate than anything else. Right now, prior to 2.0, we only had 10k users.
The new login system is designed to be more easy to use for completely new users to Zooomr.
I’m always open to looking at new ways, and login has always been an issue with Zooomr from the start — Hopefully 2.0 will be helpful for people just starting their 2.0 experience.
-Kristopher
July 18th, 2006 at 5:45 am
The site design is very off in IE 6.0 let me know if you want a screenshot…
July 18th, 2006 at 6:28 am
How about RSS feeds for the different image sizes? With flickr, you can simply change the _m.jpg at the end of the file name, but it looks like Zooomr’s naming scheme is random.
I’d like to pull in thumbnails to my blog.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:46 am
[…] The other day, after following some links around on various blogs, I came across Zooomr, a Flickr-esque photo-hosting site. While it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of Flickr (my kingdom for an uploading utility!), it offers one thing Flickr doesn’t, but completely kicks ass: Geotagging. And when they went live with v2.0 last night, they made the already great geotagging setup even better. I also love their Smartsets, which pretty much stick anything I upload with a certain tag into its own set. The only thing I’m hoping for is that some enterprising Wordpress codegeek implements some sort of photoalbum plugin for Zoomr, like the Falbum setup I’m running on my site right now that pulls in my Flickr photostream. […]
July 18th, 2006 at 6:48 am
It’s looking good, thanks for all the hard work. Now get some sleep!
Cheers.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Just tried logging in from a different computer in a different location and my OpenID login is still taking me to a new account (beta.zooomr.com/photos/13080@Z01) instead of my old one (beta.zooomr.com/photos/wacko42). I can’t seem to find anywhere other than here to report this problem, but if there is somewhere else I should go, please let me know. Realize you guys are probably a bit worn ragged right now, but would love to start playing with the newness as soon as possible. Thanks for all the hard work!
July 18th, 2006 at 7:11 am
I haven’t had any trouble with any of the actual usage of it so far and it seems to be faster, although I haven’t spent much time on it yet. I am now upgraded to the pro account, but I can’t seem to find what my upload limits are with a free vs. basic account… can anyone point me to that info?
I was never impressed with flickr, but already I feel like a part of the zooomr community and I believe my experiences here will be more satisfying. thanks for the service and the free pro account.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:12 am
congratulations
July 18th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Be interesting to see Zooomr enable a XMP Meta Data Feature to capture information such as camera used etc, than this will really be rocking. And it will also reveal the orignal authors name ^_^.
Good Job Kris & Thom. You guys deserve a red bull and vodka.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:33 am
Hmnn… I already have an account before the upgrade, but when I try to login now using the same credentials - myopenid.com I am being given a new account. I checked my photos and it’s all gone. I tried to check the url http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/accountname and the photos are there. There are proper authentication missing with the recent upgrade… same with Jason above, I can’t find where to post this issue.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Kris Smartsets was the only feature I noticed.
I’m eagerly waiting for your Changelog.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Ok, so far this is great. But I’ve sent quite a few emails from my phone and normal email address to the email provided, but those pictures haven’t shown up yet. It’s been a while. I’m thinking that you guys are still working on that portion of the site.
I was thinking too, that it would be good to have like a centralized bug page where we could submit bugs. That would be ideal instead of sending in comments. Unless of course, it exists and I don’t know where it is!
Good job guys, zooomr rocks!
July 18th, 2006 at 7:57 am
Kris, is there an ongoing translation to Bulgarian language?
If there isn’t I would like to start translating…
July 18th, 2006 at 7:59 am
Kris — awesome so far. I couldn’t find in the FAQ or elsewhere how to set who your friends and family are.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:00 am
There still two Zooomr-Accounts connected with one OpenID:
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/12979@Z01
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/adben
What are we doing?
July 18th, 2006 at 8:14 am
Good Job Guys.
This ROCKS !!!
So far it looks great.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:44 am
The proitizer doesn’t seem to work for me, either. It may take a little while, I’ll be patient and retry.
And I also noticed the trackback link for my one photo (so far) is a post creation link, not a link to the post.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:56 am
I still miss the bulk upload tool. Uploading using the form is a huge disadvantage
July 18th, 2006 at 9:11 am
Hey Kris,
I saw that Juploadr is going to become the upload tool for Zooomr! This is excellent news.
Until 1.1 of Juploadr is released - could you fix the link to your tools page so I can download the re-compiled version of the tool which works with Zooomr?
Thank you
July 18th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Hey, got some questions:
- how can I determine wether a Photo is public or not (and if not, who may see it)?
- can i change if a photo is public after uploading and how?
- what Will Carroll said.
July 18th, 2006 at 9:21 am
hey guys.
there are still some mistakes in the german version. misspellings and some words hasn’t been translated at all.
and the worst in my view: i tried to upload a 900kb pic for four times. no pic in my gallery. then tried to upload a 24kb only pic. no pic in my gallery. thats kind of exhausting? any fixes for that?
July 18th, 2006 at 9:29 am
after defining what photo i want to upload there comes the new site with “Please wait. Photos are uploaded” (or however it is called in the english version).
then it seems the photo has uploadd (page load is finished) but the site doesn’t change and no pic in my gallery.
tried to upload with safari and firefox, both with the same ‘result’
July 18th, 2006 at 9:32 am
ok guys, it seems as if i found the mistake. after choosing ‘english(us)’ it worked. pic in my gallery. but not in the german version with the same pic and same browser (safari).
July 18th, 2006 at 9:33 am
I’ve been trying for the last hour to upload photos. I’m a new user. I’ve logged in with OpenID. I’ve tried Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 (no luck with either). I’ve tried emailing a photo in. Nothing.
I can’t get ANY photos to upload.
July 18th, 2006 at 9:39 am
Yo, the Contact link is dead, and I have a problem with my account that I don’t want to discuss in comments.
July 18th, 2006 at 9:40 am
still getting a nasty hang trying to upload photos, just sits there stuck on “Please hold tight…” screen. when i go to check my photos, the one i have been trying ot upload 4+ times still isn’t there.
buggier than before
July 18th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Wow, tagmap is amazing.
July 18th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Well, I like the better login procedure. But I hate how merging my existing pictures destroyed all my tags, titles, descriptions and geotags. Not nice at all. Fortunately I didn’t have many pictures on Zooomr yet, but I can imagine someone with hundreds of pictures could be pretty pissed off. Any chance of getting them back?
July 18th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Ah, that’s nice, my profile and contacts are blank as well…
July 18th, 2006 at 9:59 am
[…] Zooomr 2.0 is finally up and running again, but it probably could have gone smoother than it has. there have been issues with getting the gmail-tpass integration working (now fixed) and i myself haven’t successfully been able to upload a photo yet today. a lot of the site seems to hang here or there occasionally. i really want to be positive about this service (not much of a flickr fan here), but my patience is starting to wear thin here… […]
July 18th, 2006 at 10:22 am
same problem as everyone else. two accounts with one openID.
correct username: benstewart
any fixes?
July 18th, 2006 at 10:54 am
Edwinek,
From what other some people were saying, it doesn’t totally wipe out all the other account’s data, but more move on top of the OpenID data, with the google stuff taking precedence. The other data is still there and can be accessed in a roundabout way. I’m sure this glitch will be corrected and I certainly hope the pushed away data will not be lost for good!!! Keep the faith!
July 18th, 2006 at 11:03 am
Zooomr Re-relaunched
Despite an unfortunate road block (i.e. DoS attack) this past Friday, Zooomr’s Kristopher Tate finally is jumping with joy with the announcement of his baby’s relaunched “version 2.0.”. So, what has changed since finding about Zooomr through TechC…
July 18th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
home page layout is broken on all the IE 6 browsers i have used today.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
There’s your justification to switch to the MUCH better Mozilla Firefox browser!
J/K That should definitely be corrected.
July 18th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I’ll try that. The Geotags look much better on the screenshots published earlier. In IE you only see the picture. On the screenshots it looks much fancier.
Is using IE also the reason that the link for upgrading to pro isn’t working at the ‘you account’ page?
And what about the smart set function? I get a script error trying to add a smart set…
July 18th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
raza, got the same problem with safari AND firefox. but reloading one or two times solved the problem.
but indeed, firefox is better than IE
July 18th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Sorry, Firefoxs is great, but IE has like 80% of the market, if your trying to get more people to make the switch from flickr to zooomr, you might wanna facter in the IE users
July 18th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
I appears that my original account does not exist anymore. My one blogged photo still shows, but I don’t know how to access any of my old account information… only the “new” opedid account.
July 18th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
solution:
1) my bad (kinda)
2) it turns out beta.zooomr.com got put in my firewall, heres how:
beta sent my server mail, but because it didn’t have a reverse domain name entry my over aggressive spam filters added the ip to our firewall.
The moral of the story is ensure your mail servers have reverse DNS entries.
July 18th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Raza and Stephen we will look into this IE6 issue. Does it work ok with other versions of IE?
July 18th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Since i couldn’t find a better place for my bugreport, i thought i might as well put it here.
There seems to be a small issue with the geotagging module, if you click fast enough on the a picture in step 2 (Select photos you would like to GeoTag) you add multiple versions of the image to the other box (i found that out by accidently double clicking a photo). Maybe this is only cosmetic (i didn’t finish the tagging), but i just wanted to let you know.
Specs: Firefox 1.5.0.4 for XP, nothing special otherwise.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
I am in, and Tagworld works great.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
While i’m at it: is the “privacy level” already implemented, and if so, how can i change it on uploaded pictures?
Otherwise thanks for the help and a really neat site. You guys rock
July 18th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Is there a way to un-geotag a photo or re-geotag a photo?
July 18th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Yet another soul the “Proitizer” doesn’t work for.
http://varianceart.blogspot.com/2006/07/one-of-my-first-loves.html
for what it’s worth.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Easy way to ungeotag a photo:
Within the TagMap:
Click the photo you want to remove. In the details tab there are the four little icons on the bottom right of the popup. The very right one is a circle with a line through it.
Click that and the photo will automatically be UNgeotagged (note there is no confirmation on this, make sure you want to do it!!!)
From there you can re-geotag in the usual way.
hope this helps!
July 18th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
I joined the site this morning. I wonder why my 3 megapixel images only show up as 1024×768 when I click on “All sizes.” The whole point of using this service was to store high resolution images and allow others to see them. I have some high definition 16×9 photos and they’ve been restricted to 1024×576, so my tags are now misleading and can frustrate users.
I was really careful in editing my images and saving them with minimal compression, and now they’re unavailable on the web even to me. I wouldn’t call this data destruction “Flickr on steroids.”
July 18th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Hi 215914, thanks for using Zooomr. We do support hi-res photos, but you’re not a currently a Pro. — If you would like to become one, you may do so for free by going to http://beta.zooomr.com/proitizer
Thanks,
-Kristopher
July 18th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Zooomr v2 finally live
After what seemed like an eternity of problems with a DDoS, zooomr 2.0 is finally live. The new features look like they’ll be a lot of fun and useful to boot. So I’m a bit slow and it may have happened last night but I had to work and then …
July 18th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Some questions:
1. What’s the difference between the red, green and blue icon in the GeoTag-Map?
2. How are the “Title”-Pictures for the SmartSets chosen? If it should do automatically: It fails.
So long, chris
July 19th, 2006 at 12:04 am
Ditto to what Travis said….
I tag/describe/gps-encode my pics offline using Picasa/RoboGEO/etc… so it’d be a pain to have to do it all again when I upload to Zooomr. (Flickr takes all this information and transforms it into tags/descriptions/etc)
Otherwise, congrats on the 2.0 launch! I’m glad you got the google tpass thing sorted - that was REALLY starting to bug me!
July 19th, 2006 at 12:29 am
Stupid question: Is there going to be a forum for help or a FAQ sometime? (happy to offer time if needed).
Because I cannot work out why some of my Sets don’t contain a representative photo on the main page.
July 19th, 2006 at 12:41 am
hi guys. great job (again). one thing though. i’ve open a /photos page of one user and many many many lines describing an error in the script appeard to me. I saved and screenshooted because by reloading, they were gone. I searched for an email or some way to contact you in order to send you the page (which seemd to contain some debugging info) in question, but couldn’t find any contact info so if you want to take a look, send me an email.
July 19th, 2006 at 1:01 am
Kris,
Any updates on the issues, Kevin, audienceone, Jason and I and probably others are facing? which is logging in with old myOpenID account but creating a new account instead.
Thanks for the hard work! much appreciated.
July 19th, 2006 at 4:58 am
User ID: Markus Merz
a) photo is gone = not viewable in my account (static link works)
b) pro status is gone
Pls. feedback with mail.
July 19th, 2006 at 5:02 am
User ID: Markus Merz
c) Two numerical user ids for one name
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/11835@Z01 (old)
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/13469@Z01 (new)
Pls. feedback with mail to hr_merz - yahoo.de.
July 19th, 2006 at 5:07 am
User ID: Markus Merz
d) Going to proitizer results in
“Uh-Oh! The blog url that you gave us belongs to another member on Zooomr!”
Pls. feedback with mail to hr_merz - yahoo.de.
July 19th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Ah, after reading the comment from markus merz, i tried once again. merging from Google doesn’t work.
there will be created a new Zoomr-Account when trying.
So i don’t know how many accounts from dave-kay are in there, but the onyl one i need ist this one
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/davekay
i don’t think there’s another davekay than me
is there a possibility to get in without openid?
July 19th, 2006 at 6:19 am
the merging thing is confusing..
July 19th, 2006 at 6:25 am
can i still use the google account username i used with zooomr before? when i logged into that account, it can’t seem to recognize my password and email add when i tried password recovery after merging..
July 19th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Smartsets don’t seem to pick up on photos that were upload *before* the set was created. This is probably why it seems that smartsets don’t work when you first create one.
Photos loaded after the set works fine, but not picking up earlier ones is a a bit of a bummer. You need to make the smartsets smarter!
July 19th, 2006 at 6:34 am
Somebody please please please please tell me how to change privacy settings for each photo ’cause i’m standing by not knowing if i should upload all my photos public or private and manually change them later as i wish, or if i have to upload each and every one marked from the start and unchangable.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:53 am
yup, email uploads aren’t working for me either. great job so far guys!
July 19th, 2006 at 9:16 am
I _knew_ I should’ve kept using my openid account… Here’s the problem:
- In the beginning, I signed up to Zooomr with openid, I created an openid URL and even uploaded a couple of pics to zooomr.
- Then I thought that this was too complicated, and because I saw the “IM to your Google Talk (soon)” in the process to sign up using google, I thought this was a pretty cool idea, so I signed up again using Google this time, didn’t worry for the couple of pics in my old open id account.
- I kept using my google account and upload several pictures. Even asked for PRO status.
- Enter Zooomr2, and the merge process: I merged it and thought I was fortunate because I experienced no problems… even uploaded an image yesterday with the rest of my pics and created a couple of smartsets, all was fine and dandy
- I try to log in today, and indeed I login (using my open id account, thought they are already merged) but now I have only my old-old 2 pics. The bunch of my pics are still there, under my other account, can’t modify them, or anything.
Any thoughts?
July 19th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Ok, so I did a kinda strange thing… I tried again the merge:
- Send my TPass
- Sign in
- In the “Now you can either sign in using an existing open id or create a new one” you can just ignore that and go to http://beta/zooomr.com/account, you are already signed in with your google account credentials
What is happening here is that the login is being called twice, not updating itself. You log in with google, then comes myopenid and replaces the previous session. Stranger than that, this (as I stated above) didn’t happen to me yesterday.
Maybe separating the process can help a bit, for one side let the users create a myopenid account, and then in the account section let them link with the previously created account.
My 2 cents anyway.
July 19th, 2006 at 9:59 am
HERE SHOULD BE A TEMPORARY FIX TO ACCESS YOUR OLD GOOGLE LOGIN PHOTOS:
Actually workaround is probably a better term, definitely not a fix.
OK, even if you have merged your openID and google accounts, go back to the old method of requesting a tempPass.
Login with that tempPass, which will next bring up the dialog to merge the accounts. INSTEAD, just click on the WelcomeMat or wherever else you wish to go on Zooomr and you should be logged in with access to your OLD google account photos!
If I’m totally wrong please let me know but I think this should work.
I’m sure this issue will be fixed soon so please don’t let this dissuade you from using this great service.
Sincerely,
A Fan
July 19th, 2006 at 10:05 am
ataraxis,
To my knowledge, the option to change public/private status after the picture is uploaded has not been implemented yet. However, this obviously makes no sense. It would be no problem at all to add a couple radio buttons and checkboxes for friends/family in the edit photo page or elsewhere. I’m sure this will be corrected very soon (right Kris?)
In the meantime, if you really don’t want others viewing your pictures, then make them private. But wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of this community?
July 19th, 2006 at 10:13 am
The GoeTagged maps are shifted to the right (the left side of the map starts in the center of the grey box) for me using IE6?
Is anyone else experiencing this (besides the guy using IE7)?
And please don’t tell me to use Firefox.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:10 am
@Dana:
In theory this workaround would work with any login process… I think.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:22 am
kad,
Yep, I was thinking the same, but I had only used the google login process and could only verify it seemed to work fine with that. It’s weird, nobody has complained about any of the other login methods, but then again the google login method was most likely the most used method of them all…
July 19th, 2006 at 11:31 am
campino2k,
To answer your questions above:
1. In the TagMap, Red=Pictures geotagged from “other” users; Green=Pictures geotagged by YOU; Blue=Pictures geotagged by people in your Social Circle.
2. I believe the first picture in the Album is set as the cover photo. However, there are obviously issues with SmartSets as of now. (See ping’s post above for more info) Once those are worked out I would hope we could set our own cover photo as well!
Cheers!
July 19th, 2006 at 11:37 am
some news for kris about this gmail merge crap would be nice. what’s up?
July 19th, 2006 at 11:38 am
First thanks to Dana for the workaround.
I found confirmationmails in my Spamfilter, they came from myopenid. So i logged in to zoomr, confirmed the openid-account and went on to zoomr in another window.
after that i logged out and loggend on again, but this time with openid, and…however…it worked.
Don’t know what’s goin’ on there but it’s funny however.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Kris, where’s that post with the changelog.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:52 am
haha, sorry, it’s me once again, being blind and stupid it DIDN’T work…
July 19th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Hey Dana!
Thanks for that reply. What I still want to know: I did not mean watching the TagMap but in Tagging-Mode! There is a button “start” and stop geotagging. And next to it, there is a button with 3 circles/bullets in red, green and blue. What are THEY for?
And by the way: I hope, they get that cover-picture thing done
July 19th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
campino2k,
No problem! OK, so what those 3 circle buttons do is turn on and off the viewing of those particular types of pictures. So if you only want to view YOUR pictures on the map, turn off the Red and Blue buttons.
Give it a try, it’s pretty straightforward once you learn their meaning!
July 19th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Request for features:
1) ability to tag multiple photos
2) ability to sort by # of views/# of comments/Date
3) working smart set “owner” field
4) ability to rate photos
5) ability to toggle public/private status of photos
6) advanced photo search (search by title/views/comments/owner/multiple fields/ect…)
7) ability to customize the zoom level of lightmapped photos (some of my photos are in the ocean near a coast, but because lightmap zooms in so much it appears mapped in a sea of blue)
Great job with the 2.0 upgrade, keep up the great work.
July 19th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
So where is this list of all the new stuff you speak of, Kris?
July 19th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
I second 1152736325_8525’s requests.
ESPECIALLY: #1, #3, #5, and #6
July 19th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Just wondering where my comments have gone to…were they deleted for some reason?
July 19th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
I second them as well and wanted to add
ability to change/remove geotags (at least i don’t see any)
9) some sort of bugreport/featurerequest area (we can’t use this commentthread forever)
July 19th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
m64,
To delete geotags: Open up the TagMap, click on the particular photo, then clicking on the little circle with a line through it in the very bottom right details tab (next to the magnifying glass). It’s the same icon to delete the photo in the normal photos page. After that, you can add a new geotag to the photo if you so desire! I believe that’s the only way to change the geotag also. No easy drag and drop editing on the TagMap (hint hint)
July 19th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
So has the “proitizer” worked for anyone? Or am I just plain out of luck?
July 19th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
hey, i got a feature request.
Some images appear covered with ‘explicit’ which is perfectly fine…It’s fine that everyone else sees the ‘explicit’ message, but why do i have to see that on my own photos when I’m logged in viewing my photos…it’s kinda obvious that i know the content of them, as i uploaded them, and probably I don’t need zooomr to censor them for my own protection, nor have a problem viewing _my_ _own_ explicit photos
July 19th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Az, just fixed that — It should go live later today. Thanks for the idea.
-Kris
July 19th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Kris, Will you please fix this merging problem many of us seem to have Please.
Or atleast tell us if guys are working on it.
I’d love to hear something.
Please man.
July 19th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Dana:
Thanks to you i managed to move my geotag to the right place
still i’d also prefer an easier way of doing it, or at least a more distictive icon (i thought it was for deleting the picture completely)
r.e.wolf:
it worked for me yesterday, should be ok
July 19th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
I request that SmartSets don’t have a limit of 50 photos. Why is that, anyways?
Also, it would be nice if there was a way to manually add photos to a set without having to meet defined requirements.
July 19th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
kad, dana
tnx it worked… but i dont wana get my tpass everytime i log in! waaaaaaa!
July 19th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
i just opened an account. i can only upload 10 photos at a time? not even worth it to me. is there no help menu? I can’t find it if there is one. as for the look, I know it’s key to the whole image, but I think you really need to work on how the map fits into the main page. it really looks like an afterthought, not built into the design, to me. one more thing… when flickr is down, you should definitely capitilize on the moment… you know, like bravo does with their own half time show during the superbowl.
July 19th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
The proitizer has not worked for me either.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Not a huge deal, but certainly annoying; I keep getting logged out. It doesn’t seem to happen after performing a particular action, the site just seems to log me out after being logged in for a couple of minutes.
July 20th, 2006 at 3:28 am
Is anything actually being done on the OpenID issue? I revisit daily and read through the comments above, see many folks with the same issue, yet don’t see the issue addressed.
Anyone?
July 20th, 2006 at 5:02 am
Happy to see ya back again!
July 21st, 2006 at 2:06 am
I don’t know where to send general feedback (a statement that, obviously, will generate tons of “haven’t you seen that ‘feedback’ link on the homepage ?” :)), so here I am with my first question: how could I change the privacy level of photos that have already been uploaded ?
July 21st, 2006 at 4:16 am
I can’t login my zooomr account(http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/bingu)with my openid.
It just creat a new zooomr account for me (http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/13748@Z01)
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