More Examples of Portals
CNET has a nice write up out on Portals at Zooomr here. To see how Rafe Needleman used Portals to share a tour of CNET, click on this photo and then follow his tour of portals.
Here’s another example of a portal from my photo shoot with Robert Scoble last night. Just hover over Robert and then click and zooom through to the next photo to get a sense of how portals work.
Do you have an interesting portal? Leave a link in the comments of this post so we can check them out.
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August 22nd, 2006 at 9:36 am
I’ve got quite many photos …portalized?
They’re all intertwined so one can travel quite far in this manner.
For a starting picture i would give this: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/fipsut/115558
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:41 am
Here’s my first shot at portals. I can keep these in mind while shooting now. Great feature!
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:49 am
Nice one, Ben. Here’s a portal of the astronomical clock in Prague. It’s four levels deep.
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:10 am
Hey Ben, that’s a great one. Good use for a baseball stadium. Thanks for sharing that.
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:14 am
What about being able to put notes on other peoples photos? Is that a feature that we might be able to expect?
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:28 am
I’ve got quite many photos …portalized?
They’re all intertwined so one can travel quite far in this manner.
For a starting picture i would give this:
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/fipsut/115558
hmmm..Somewhy firefox was unable to comment before..
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:43 am
What about IE!
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:53 am
My friends say they don’t see my comments made on 22 Aug 2006 at 9:36 am AND 22 Aug 2006 at 10:28 am. Can you guys?
(Just in case you CAN’T see my posts, i’ll put the link again)
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/fipsut/115558
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:10 am
Hey Thomas, we’ve been experimenting with portals too. This is a short trip across London, UK. Hope you like it.
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:40 am
Here is my usage of it..
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/shergill/154018
Is there a way to ‘go back’ to the original picture after clicking through the portal?
Btw; I LOVE THIS FEATURE! Can’t wait for you guys to release the bulk uploader..
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Navdeep
Why not just make another portal back to the first photo?
Also, I just noticed something kind of neato about the Notes feature. You can use code in the note and put photos in the notes.
Example here
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Hi cmiper; I can do as you suggested. But then I would kinda lose the ‘effect’ of going ‘into/inside’ a picture.. kinda like a portal
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:30 pm
The abilty to use code in notes is just fab. Really opens up the possibilities.
Example here: Link
Portals are just perfect! (except for the bugs) It turns a photoalbum into a storybook.
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Thomas, Kris,
I love Zooomr. I love the innovations that you are delivering in each release. I really want to continue using it and directing my entire family and all friends to my home page, but they all use IE, as do 98% of people!
Please can you address the layout issues with the homepage, and the other issues that have been highlighted by other people leaving comments.
THank you,
Gareth
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm
You could make a note with a link to the start, or a link to the start in the description?
Otherwise…I don’t know.
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:37 pm
When you guys talk about code inside a note; do you refer to ‘html code’?
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Navdeep, that is a super cool Portal. Gareth, sorry about the IE6 thing. It is at the top of our list of things to fix. We’re certainly aware of the templating issue and hope to have it fixed soon.
Kristopher is our only developer and needs to sleep a few hours every now and again but we will get things fixed for IE6. Kristopher and I in fact were looking at it on Friday and trying to figure out a way to make it work.
If anyone with strong CSS skills in IE6 standards has any advice or could point us to a resource on why the templating might be off we would very much appreciate it. But we are working on it in the meantime.
Thanks for using Zooomr.
Best,
Tom
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Navdeep - Yes, HTML.
You can create links, or embed images, or both. Seems that might be the extent of it, I tried copying the pre-built code from the “all sizes” page and it locks up during the “Saving” process.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Thomas, Kris, I’m not sure what you mean by templating, but the IE6 problem might have a solution just as simple as enlarging content_wrapper by a couple of pixel (maybe 5?), see also this comment of mine: http://blog.zooomr.com/2006/08/22/portals-have-been-up-for-2-hours-now/#comment-4225
BTW, you guys should really put up a forum to discuss these issues.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Thanks Oblomov. We will have a forum like this up to discuss these issues in the near future.
Tom
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:47 pm
I’ve created a ‘Warp Portal’. A portal of similar scenes at different places. You can travel 130 KM with a mousclick. Check http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/10542@Z01/145774
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Hey Kris,
Great work on the portal thing. My silly little contribution is not all that great, but it does have a zooomrtation.
One little tweak I’d like to see is a larger box to type in (or one which automatically sizes) for notes.
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:04 pm
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/Russell/149811
Fantastic.
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Great new feature guys. Here’s my contribution:
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/8856@Z01/155011
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
Tim,
Great zooomrtation!
If only it didn’t end while I surf through portals of the same place.
Maybe this kind of thing could be done? So that the picture owner can choose when the zooomrtation ends. For example I’d like to choose that the music wouldn’t end with the portals of this photo, but would end with other pages.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:40 am
Excellent features, I blogged about it and stitched together an portal of Casa Batllo in Barcelona with 8 photos: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/dready/155230
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:02 am
Here’s my portals contribution. 37 interlocking photos to create an exhaustive documentation of my room.
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/tobobo/153606
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:18 am
Kris, Thomas,
This portal functionality is serious fun! It is really going to change the way I take photos!
Anyway, I’ve had a quick go, done something a bit different, where I’ve gone from a photo at night to a photo at day, portals can take you anywhere!
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/gaz/81132
Look forward to the IE fix.
Cheers for all your hardwork which no doubt will be seriously rewarded in the near future!
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:31 am
Taavi, what a great idea that is. Zooomrtations which follow the portal. Maybe you could chose to change the soundtrack when certain photos are clicked or keep the same music going.
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Quick tour of Florida Caverns:
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/csmcdonald/155831
August 25th, 2006 at 7:38 am
I gave it a try, following a walk in Mancester. Great idea perhaps not best executed. I may go back and add a lot more detail!
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/choffee/155920
February 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
http://myurl.com.tw/jgro
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