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An Innovation Moment: Photo Portals

by Kristopher Tate | 20 August 2006 | Announcements, Development, General | 31 Comments

Hey Everyone, I’ve got a 5 minute video of something I’m calling Portals — Enjoy it.

–Kristopher

31 Comments

  1. Russell Limprecht said on 20 Aug 2006 at 3:00 am:

    That is amazing.

  2. Frederik Misplon said on 20 Aug 2006 at 3:02 am:

    Nice work!

  3. Jacob Jay said on 20 Aug 2006 at 4:02 am:

    That is a pretty nifty re-imagining of the kind of concepts that date back to image maps and QTVR hotposts. Nicely implemented—kudos!

  4. MattStarr said on 20 Aug 2006 at 4:38 am:

    Thats really neat. It would be good for walk-through instructions and things of that nature

  5. Sohil said on 20 Aug 2006 at 5:17 am:

    Sweeeet. Great Job.

  6. Fajro said on 20 Aug 2006 at 6:31 am:

    Great Work!!

  7. ddr said on 20 Aug 2006 at 7:56 am:

    It’s like but not the same as Microsoft’s 3D photo technique.

  8. Brian Ellin said on 20 Aug 2006 at 9:08 am:

    Hott!

  9. Jim said on 20 Aug 2006 at 10:54 am:

    That is so cool.

  10. Taavi said on 20 Aug 2006 at 11:33 am:

    Oh, that is cool.
    Only one thing i want to make sure.(I couldn’t make it out from the video)

    Are they or could the portal boxes be visible and “enabled” only when the mouse pointer is on the picture, cause that would quarantee that the art/beauty aspect of the photo isn’t affected.

  11. Kristopher Tate said on 20 Aug 2006 at 1:33 pm:

    Taavi, when you mouse out of the photo, the notes / portals disappear naturally.

    -Kristopher :)

  12. not yet found » Blog Archive » Folter said on 20 Aug 2006 at 2:22 pm:

    […] Dafür bin ich auf folgendes Video im Zooomr Blog gestoßen. Für mich grenzt das an Folter. Ich will diese Features jetzt! Was hasse ich unfertige Prototypen. […]

  13. Eddie Dickey said on 20 Aug 2006 at 2:46 pm:

    Very nice…

  14. cmiper said on 20 Aug 2006 at 3:45 pm:

    I was waiting for notes, and the portal feature is a sweet idea, can’t wait.

  15. Techno Mojo » Blog Archive » Zooomr To Release Photo Portals said on 20 Aug 2006 at 4:20 pm:

    […] Kristopher Tate, Zooomr creator,  highlights his latest photo innovation in a 5 minute video that is absolutley fantastic. Photo portals is scheduled to be released Monday. How to describe this? Photo notes inside a photograph that is interactive. That’s all I can think of until I play around with it. But for now, wow. Watch the video on portals here. […]

  16. Anony-moose said on 20 Aug 2006 at 4:21 pm:

    Okay, finally something that I won’t cringe over when I hear you bragging about how much better you are than flickr. Keep at it.

    Suggestion #1: how about showing a breadcrumb of thumbnails indicating the chain of photos you’ve ‘zooomed’ through?

    Suggestion #2: Don’t mention flickr by name in your demos. It comes across as petty and obsessive.

  17. Kristopher Tate said on 20 Aug 2006 at 4:26 pm:

    Hi Anony-moose, thanks for commenting.

    I’m sure there will be lots of things I’ll add to this once I see how people are using it, but regarding your second suggestion, it’s only used to reference what people might be already used to — It was not meant to come off as petty or obsessive.

    -Kristopher

  18. Russell Limprecht said on 20 Aug 2006 at 4:51 pm:

    Off topic.

    I was wondering around trying to find my sets page. I would expect to see them on my profile page.

  19. The Mollyzine - Phillip Molly Malone’s Blog » Photo Portals - Flickr Competitor adding really interesting things said on 20 Aug 2006 at 5:46 pm:

    […] read more | digg story   […]

  20. easoncyh said on 20 Aug 2006 at 6:19 pm:

    Really Cool!
    Amazing function, very clever…

  21. Zooomr Hits » Upcoming Zooomr Feature - Portals said on 20 Aug 2006 at 11:40 pm:

    […] Click through to have a look at the video. It’s about 5 mins long, and it shows extremely well what can be achieved by this new feature. […]

  22. John Wilson said on 21 Aug 2006 at 12:20 am:

    Kris

    Very neat. Some suggestions.

    Aside from the breadcrumbs idea of keeping track of where you’ve been, how about showing inbound links [as well the outbound links you’ve demo’d] to the photo that allow you to “hop out”? This won’t be possible as a visual on the photo, but perhaps could be displayed as a separate dimension.

    Who will have permission to overlay portals onto a photo - the photo author only or anyone? Could be you’ve got an image of an event/place, and other people can add detail with their photos via portals. In similar manner to blog comment moderation, you could allow people to propose portals on a photo, which the author approves.

  23. Official Zooomr Blog : Releasing Portals, Notes and PeopleNotes Today said on 21 Aug 2006 at 2:29 am:

    […] « An Innovation Moment: Photo Portals […]

  24. DSLRBlog | Adventures in digital photography said on 21 Aug 2006 at 4:08 am:

    Zooomr demonstrates “photo portals”

  25. the answer is always 42… · Zooomr looking better and better with every update said on 21 Aug 2006 at 5:17 am:

    […] I’m so excited it looks like Zooomr’s portals are actually being released right on time. Just one step in the direction to take away any advantage Flickr may have still had over Zooomr. Oh happy day. […]

  26. Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Zooomr launches zoomable picture in picture feature said on 21 Aug 2006 at 11:11 am:

    […] Photosharing upstart Zooomr today launched a number of new features, the most notable one called Portals. It’s a means of linking zoomable pictures inside of each other. The company won’t disclose how it works under the hood, but a demonstration video is available over on the Zooomr blog. It’s quite striking. […]

  27. James P said on 21 Aug 2006 at 11:48 am:

    Wow! That’s a really nice idea. Looks like you’ve implemented it really well too!

  28. Ben said on 21 Aug 2006 at 1:30 pm:

    Nice feature. Looks like it blows Flickr notes out of the water!

  29. the plan » Blog Archive » Salamanca op zijn zooomr’s said on 23 Aug 2006 at 10:14 am:

    […] Ergens in Juni 2004 ben ik met een paar kameraden naar Salamanca getrokken voor een dag of 4-5. We gingen er E. bezoeken die er de laatste loodjes van een Erasmusjaar aan het leggen was. Het is een gans verhaal op zijn eigen maar ik wou eigenlijk gewoon het nieuwste feature van zooomr testen. Portals. Klik maar even door op de foto en beweeg er dan even over met je muis, je zal zo’n typisch flickr-note-vakje zien verschijnen en als het vakje binnenkomt… Enfin, go see for yourself! […]

  30. Flickr now does geotagging « The lost outpost said on 29 Aug 2006 at 5:06 am:

    […] On balance, I think I’d prefer this implementation to the Zooomr version, if only it used Google Maps! In the meantime, Zooomr now has some other cool features such as portals, so I guess it will be interesting to see how both services continue to develop. […]

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