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by Thomas Hawk | 23 August 2006 | General, Zooomr Highlights | 17 Comments

Colosseum at nightColosseum at night Hosted on Zooomr

Colosseum at Night. Click through this photos to portal in for an inside view of the Colosseum. Thanks, Gareth!

Hey everyone. Thanks for all of the creative Portals that you have been making and posting up on Zooomr.

Last night Kristopher added a cool section on Zooomr where you can discover new Portals that people are making and uploading. If you look at the top of your Zooomr page you will see an item Discover. Under this discover menu you can see a section for portals where you can go and check more portals out as they are created. You can also discover other things like geotagged photos, photos with Zooomrtations, etc.

Enjoy.

Also Kristopher fixed a lot of our bugs with IE6 last night. Hopefully for those of you using Internet Explorer your experience is a bit better this morning. We still have a few more bugs to fix with IE, though.

Stay tuned for more awesome features from Zooomr and don’t forget to tell your friends!

17 Comments

  1. Taavi said on 23 Aug 2006 at 8:00 am:

    Oh, I WILL stay tuned and I WIll tell all my friends. It’s really nice to see the site constantly changing and developing. Keep up the good work!

    Just another portalized photo

    “We still have a few more bugs to fix with IE still” - small typo

  2. Chris said on 23 Aug 2006 at 8:01 am:

    Oi Zooomr! I can’t believe I’ve been missing all these photo-sharing goodies! I have to start importing my Flickr account here - geotagging makes it worth it!

    I have a suggestion for the site, and I can’t find any suggestion box so I’ll put it here. Users should be able to type their OpenID URL into the “Search” box in the top right hand corner of a page if they’re logged out… this would make logging in faster.

    Zooomr rocks!

  3. Thomas Hawk said on 23 Aug 2006 at 8:10 am:

    Thanks Taavi and thanks Chris.

    We are working on the log in process and it will get easier and simplier in the future. Stay tuned.

  4. tim said on 23 Aug 2006 at 8:23 am:

    I was thiking…it might be cool to have some kind of portal map so we could see how the images are interrelated. Something like thumbnails with lines drawn between them. Just a thought.

  5. Kilian said on 23 Aug 2006 at 8:29 am:

    Why don’t launch an Infinite Zooomr with Potals ?? :)

  6. Ole said on 23 Aug 2006 at 9:36 am:

    If or when people are allowed to portal to other users’ photos, we could start a project that slowly assembles a photo map of a city, i.e. at each junction there is a photo and you can navigate in all directions via portals. A bit like this London portal (http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/17727@Z01/153167) but with portal options going down any street. Would be a big collaboraive effort…

    In the meantime, something similar, though much smaller here:
    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/oledoe/154186

  7. Mike said on 23 Aug 2006 at 9:54 am:

    Here’s a suggestion for makng portals even better: In addition to notes, provide an option for directional arrows - left, right, up, down, zooom out, etc. For example, you could have a photo of a street scene. Put a portal at the top of the photo with an up arrow. When you click it, you’re looking up at a skyscraper.

  8. Russell Limprecht said on 23 Aug 2006 at 4:31 pm:

    Idea for Views.

    I like trackbacks. How about a list of the members that have viewed the photo. Click through the views number to see the avator and name of each member.

  9. Taavi said on 24 Aug 2006 at 12:25 am:

    bug: The new yellow portal sign on photos and thumbnails replaces the zooomrtation sign instead of being an addition.

  10. headcas3 said on 24 Aug 2006 at 6:53 am:

    Okay, one small thing I found in playing with portals using Firefox (untested on other browsers because I need to go to bed) and I haven’t checked if anyone else ahs reported it:

    When I place a portal too close to the bottom edge of the photo I get the Edit/Delete? popup but as soon as my mouse moves off the photo toward it - the popup disappears and I can’t use Edit/Delete?

    Will have another play with this when time allows as it could be a MP (My Problem) and not a YP (Your Problem). WIll try different browsers/photos.

    I was digging out an old photo for a friend tonight and after uploading it to Zooomr thought why not upload the rest of the set and make a little portal based tour, so if anyone is interested in a little bit of computer chair urbex follow below. Non-traditional portal use ahead!

    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/17529@Z01/156958

  11. Ole said on 24 Aug 2006 at 7:38 am:

    headcas3: I have experienced the same problem (also using firefox). However, I found that if you move the mouse fast enough, it works just fine.

  12. Ataraxis said on 24 Aug 2006 at 10:43 pm:

    just wanted to remind about the Public/Private feature… pls don’t forget about it :)

  13. headcas3 said on 25 Aug 2006 at 12:33 am:

    Thanks for the reply Ole, I’m in a very brief transition between work and party so I don’t have time to see how fast the mx1000 is but I’m sure I’ll manage to kill the duplicate tags.

  14. Thomas Hawk said on 25 Aug 2006 at 9:46 am:

    Ole, you’re right. I had that same problem. You just have to be really quick with the mouse. We are aware of that and will fix it.

    Ataraxis, we definitely have not forgotten about the public/private feature on the fly. We will add this as soon as we can.

    Kristopher and I were just comparing notes how neither of us has had more than four hours or so sleep a night this week. So much work to do, but we are cranking it out as fast as we can.

    Look for something else pretty cool to be coming either later today or tomorrow.

  15. Taavi said on 25 Aug 2006 at 10:13 am:

    Wow, guys 4 hours is way too little. Try not to kill yourselves with work, Ok?

    Btw, how high up your to-do list is bulk uploader? I mean is it going to be ready within a week or so? Cause I’m thinking of adding a few general tags to my photos soon.

    And thanks for the “ö ä ü õ é è” fix. For you guys who haven’t noticed, you can now start changing you e’s to è’s etc.

  16. Taavi said on 25 Aug 2006 at 12:01 pm:

    Thanked too early, an “ä” in my comment resulted in an error “uh-oh smth went wrong”

  17. tim said on 26 Aug 2006 at 3:22 am:

    Taavi, I think juploadr will be the new bulk uploader.

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