Lunch2.0 Special is LIVE!
Hey Everyone, our Lunch2.0 special is finally live — SOOO many awesome people came by our booth over at Hitachi Data Systems that I was swamped. Here are some quick things to look for in the new version:
- New TagMap
- New Comments Display
- NEW ICONS (YEAH!) [Thanks to our UK buddy Mark James for those guys!]
- New Privacy editing! Check it out on your photos page and on your photo stream
- Mannnnny Speed and system improvements
- BEST FOR LAST: jUploadr is finally announced — upload your photos to Zooomr even faster! — check it out on your Zooomr upload page
But, you know what folks? I’m not even done yet — we’re sitting on LOADS of more awesome Zooomr goodies that should debut later this month.
I gotta get some rest, but please let us know how things are working out in the comments…
-Kristopher
September 12th, 2006 at 11:27 pm
great job guys! really great!!
so fast and so easy…
What about a sort of automatic slideshow for pictures (e.g. livespace)?
September 13th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Hello,
those improvements are great. Thank you very much. That is excellent!
For the moment, I have saw just one bug: on the page /photos/[my_name], all the photos have the comment ‘This photo is Public’ even if it is a private one.
If some French people read this comment, I have got an advice: to authorise the excellent jUploader, you must use Zooomr in English (US) version. I assume it may be the same for any other language.
There is some orthography mistakes in the French version.
See you, and thanks a lot for your good job.
Greg
September 13th, 2006 at 1:05 am
I’d ;like to give my contribution to the italian traslation. I’m really fascinated about this project.
please contact me
September 13th, 2006 at 1:05 am
I’d ;like to give my contribution with the italian traslation. I’m really fascinated about this project.
please contact me
September 13th, 2006 at 3:06 am
This is great! Glad to see so many “ease of use” features added in such a way that they are always at the raedy, not forcing us (the user) to dig around in order to use them. The important stuff is available from the /photos page and it makes things very easy to get done.
As someone else mentioned, it looks like all the private photos got marked public? Not a big deal to me, but might be something to look at.
Otherwise…please take another well deserved pat on the back, and thank you again.
September 13th, 2006 at 4:04 am
Congratulations Kris.
Please, get some rest, then hit it again. For every new feature there are 10 more we want.
You Rock.
September 13th, 2006 at 5:27 am
Hey hey, nice work!
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And privacy settings finally work (my friends can now view my private pics
Keep up the fine work guys!
September 13th, 2006 at 5:53 am
Great work, some nice updates and the site seems a little nippier too.
September 13th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Really nice! The new icons are good but take time to get used to.
Some things I’ve noticed:
1) I can’t go directly to http://beta.zooomr.com/fipsut/photos anymore (uh-oh error)
2) The Inspector View has the old icons inside.
3) In the privacy setting, it would be cooler if the friends/family boxes appear only when the private button is clicked. Another solution would be to make the friends/family boxes directly tickable.
4) ‘Last logged in’ is still broken.
5) In the expanded view of All Photos in the TagMap, the photos are still so very tiny, but they could be fit to fill the window. (also there are no buttons (expand etc)on the other tabs of the map bubble.
Other than that modest critique, the site is just fabulous. Great work! Worth the wait
September 13th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Looks good, Kris. Thank you.
I like juploadr, except for one thing - it does not pull in the IPTC data for my photos. So, any keywords I’ve attached to the photo are lost and I have to redo them all.
September 13th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Taavi…
Were you ever able to go to /username/photos ? I have only know it to be /photos/username ?
September 13th, 2006 at 11:02 am
I can confirm the bug where all the photos are reported Public, and changing the permission, be it in the single photo view or in the global photo stream, has no effect.
September 13th, 2006 at 11:20 am
Feature Request:
Kris, I’d like to be able to re-order my smartsets, so they appear on my photos page in the order I determine. Also, I’d like to be able to have two or more columns of smartsets.
One other thing I’d like to see is easier navigation of photos. When you’ve got 400-500 (or more) photos, it’s difficult to go through them page by page (or even by selecting pages). I’d like to be able to fly through a timeline (if that makes sense).
September 13th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Oh Thanks, cmiper.
I had once entered it incorrectly and afterwards I had always picked it from the drop-down menu thinking it was correct.
My bad, zooomr’s good
September 13th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Adding to what tim suggested about smartsets above (I second those same suggestions), I would also like to be able to group my smartsets into master sets. Like have a master set for “Outdoor Stuff” and then have my kayaking and hiking smartsets inside of there. The master set wouldn’t have to be a smartset itself, just a way to organize the smartsets better.
Also, I would like to again request a better way to navigate through the smartsets instead of having to click back and then on the next picture, over and over. A fluid scroller up top (a la Flickr) would be perfect.
I’m just starting to check out the new updates but I love them so far!! Wonderful work!
September 14th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Just wondering if there are any plans to add a feature for accessing comments left for you and/or comments you have left for others. Currently, if I leave a comment on someone’s photo that is one of 500 they’ve posted, I have no way to go back to that photo for followup unless I bookmark the actual page, which turns into a mess. Also, if 3 comments are left throughout my X number of photos, the only means of getting to the comments is by the email message. It would be nice to see a small “New Comments / Comments you’ve made” feature.
Thanks for listening.
September 14th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Second on cmiper’s idea. And to expand it, trackbacks could also have a summary page. That would for example display all trackbacks, group similar trackbacks, show the most ‘trackback’ed’ photo, etc.
I think the home icon before search is useless. It doesn’t link to anything and as a design element, it only makes the site more messy and unsimple, which in my opinion isn’t good. (merely MY opinion)
Addition to my inspecor remark: the comments/NOTES/views is old-style too.
Also, what point does the “This photo is public” note have, if a guest or a non-family/friend is visiting? If it was private, they wouldn’t see the photo anyway. It violates the keep-it-simple rule mentioned earlier.
(Maybe it’s just me who doesn’t like an overly colorful site. What’s your opinion?)
Well, I have never used the rotate function, but now the icons were so temping I had to try. Why does it only rotate from landscape to portrait and back, but keep the actual photo static. It only distorts the picture. Somewhy I couln’t see the point of that.
Now of the pro’s.
The comments are really good. Had to think quite some time how my town name got there. Finally I discovered that I had entered it in the profile.
The expand/collapse function in TagMap is a nice touch too.
Thanks for listening
September 14th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Following on the whole “comments page” ideas, I think it might be better to put comments, recent activiy, etc. on one page. this could work something like the google home page, where you could add, expand, or contract as desired.
I hate having to go from page to page at flickr. Of course, you should still have the option to look at each on it’s own page, if that’s your thing.
September 14th, 2006 at 10:05 am
One more thing…
If you go to someones “Profile and Tags” page you see a list of their tags. But if you click on one of their tags, you get brought to everyones photos tagged with that rather than that persons tagged photos…which is not very useful.
Thanks again…
September 14th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
My two bits on everybody’s discussion on the comments functionality… I believe that will all be resolved when the “Community Features” are released. At least I sure hope so! Otherwise, yes I totally agree we need to have some way to view/followup on comments we left for others and comments left for us.
Taavi’s comment on the Rotate functions, yes there definitely seems to be something wrong with that. Last night, I didn’t get all my photos rotated correctly before I uploaded them and now I am S.O.L. until that gets fixed. Rotating the canvas only and not the actual picture doesn’t make any sense now….
Cheers!
September 14th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
On tim’s comment about flying through a timeline of the photos… now that I’ve got like 800+ photos up, I totally see what you mean…
THOUGHT: How about being able to view a calendar with two views: 1) Dates the photos were UPLOADED and 2) Dates the photos were TAKEN. I know this can be kind of done with the smartsets… but we need a way to do it on the fly without having to create a public smartset and change delete it all the time… hm.. speaking of… how about PRIVATE/PERSONAL smartsets for our own use that might not be so useful to others??
September 15th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Tell me about it, @Dana, I just reached my upload limit for the month.
Oh well, I guess now I’ll work on headers, captions and private/public stuff.
September 16th, 2006 at 4:56 am
Is the uploader a Universal app? I can’t see anywhere on the website whether the Mac version is Universal. Does it run natively or under Rosetta? If it’s not Universal, I suggest you sort this out, quick!
September 16th, 2006 at 7:29 am
@phil: its a java app, it should work everywhere if you have java
September 16th, 2006 at 7:32 am
a suggestion:
what about a photoblog-like page where the user can present his photos to the world? should have a changeable design, best by css. and you should can drag&drop items you like to display (like comments, trackbacks, tags, zooomration,…)
might be a lot of work but it would be a very good feature. zooomr would be a concurrent to flickr and to all these photblog-systems
September 18th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
another suggestion:
first of alla, congratulations for the new stuff.
now, the low: too weak privacy. Ok. Now I can set the privacy for friends and family, but if some “not friend” or “not family” person go to my profile, he can see my photos too (with the lightbox and the magnifying glass). So what’s the deal?… well, he can’t write a message or post a note but he can see them.
I supposed the privacy setting was for HIDE pictures, but not here.
September 19th, 2006 at 5:10 am
a visualisation of my suggestion (2 comments over this)
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/killercup/210171
September 19th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Uh-Oh. It seems that Nacho is all right.
When you go to someone’s profile page (someone which is not your friend or your family), you can see his last 5 uploaded pictures even if they are private or shared with friends or family
Moreover you can see on the /insidephotos page all the photo in which that person is, even if they are private or shared with friend or family :-((
And the other problem is that… Zooomr is really an excellent site!!! There is some bugs but I think Kristopher is working hard on it