So Where in the World Are You Zoooming From?
One of the things that we take pride in at Zooomr is that you all, the photographers on Zooomr, really are truly a global bunch. As the most localized photo sharing site in the world today, Zooomr continues to strive to make the site globally accessible and photographers are uploading an amazing amount of international photos from all corners of the earth.
I thought I’d share a geo map overlay representing a breakdown of Zooomr’s traffic thus far for the month of June. As you can see, at present Zooomr’s traffic is pretty evenly divided between the Americas, Asia and Europe. Top regional locations / cities include Taiwan and Beijing, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and most recently the Petah Tikva district of Central Israel (last week Zooomr received a very positive review and tied for the top 4.5 star rating amongst photo sharing sites in Israel’s largest newspaper).
In addition to some of the major cities of Europe, Asia and the Americas, there is also smaller amounts of Zooomr activity going on in Africa, Australia and other places around the globe.
All of the translation work on Zooomr has been done by volunteers. To learn more about how you can help translate Zooomr into additional languages you can check out this Google Group on localization for Zooomr here.
So where in the world are you zoooming from today?
June 27th, 2007 at 8:41 am
London! But without wishing to sound remotely anti-American, it is really good to feel part of a web community that is not overwhelmingly dominated by North America. Zooomr’s resolute internationalism, and dedication to being multi-lingual, is one of its most attractive and admirable qualities. We need a community which not only bridges the Atlantic, but goes beyond merely Europe and America to embrace the world’s true diversity. I pay tribute to your and Kris’s commitment to seeing beyond your back yard. Thanks!
June 27th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Switzerland!
June 27th, 2007 at 9:31 am
San Francisco, CA - but I think StevieB summed it up nicely…
Keep up the GREAT work guys. Looking forward to seeing the new features soon.
Cheers!
June 27th, 2007 at 9:38 am
I agree with Steve. However, I’m slowly but surely trying to make Flagstaff, Arizona a photography mecca on Zooomr. Heh.
Thanks for sharing this. It’s fun to see where my fellow Zooomrites (philes/ans/ers) are from.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Scotland, edinburgh to be exact
June 27th, 2007 at 10:18 am
It is amazing that Europe has a much wider penitration than the US. Or does everyone live on the coasts?
Currently London. Will be Auckland, New Zealand next year.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Cheers from Barcelona, Spain!
June 27th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Ottawa! But just a month ago I was in Kazakhstan!
June 27th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Sheffield in the UK and feeling lucky to have avoided the floods.
A nice spread of spots there. Have you thought about letting people translate your blog entries as well, I don’t know how you would go about it but it would be good for people to know about these cool things in their native tongue.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:08 am
A nice spread of spots there. Have you thought about letting people translate your blog entries as well, I don’t know how you would go about it but it would be good for people to know about these cool things in their native tongue.
Hey choffee, yeah some of the posts are translated onto other language Zooomr blogs. If you look at the top of this page you’ll see the other translations. Original posts are also on these blogs as well. It’s up to the individual bloggers on what they translate and repost vs. write on their own etc.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Atlanta, Georgia USA
June 27th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Montréal, Québec
June 27th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
“So where in the world are you zoooming from today?”
I’m in the kitchen, having been evicted from the lounge
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While we’re in a trivial mood, have a look at the map pic above, then consider Rule 9 of the Terms of Service here… “The Web Site is intended for hosting digital photographs; therefore, uploading non-photographic images is prohibited.”
rofl!
TH! Go stand in the naughty corner!
June 27th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
melbourne, australia
June 27th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
San Francisco, CA
So nice to see such a big blob on my city, the most photographed city in the world (or so I think). Wha.. is London beating us! SFers get busy!
June 27th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
San Francisco, CA
So nice to see such a big blob on my city, the most photographed city in the world (or so I think). Wha.. is London beating us! SFers get busy!
June 27th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Excuse me for posting unrelated request here because I couldn’t find anywhere on zooomr.com to send questions or ask for help. Many of my pictures are shown as “ZOOOMR - THIS PHOTO IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE”. It has been like that for several month. Any fix?
June 27th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Taipei, Taiwan
I’m so glad to see a big blog in my country.
Happy Zooomr day !
June 27th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Santiago, Chile.
southamerica
i really enjoy this zooomr wbesite. i was almost raised in Flickr, and this is such a friendly option to keep sharing, everyday!
June 27th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
@Zhou:
That only happens (so far as I’ve seen) on pictures that are smaller than a certain pixel size.
kristopher is aware of the issue, and I have given him more than one primary example.
He knows about it, and will fix it, but he doesn’t consider it a ‘crucial’ issue because pictures aren’t meant to be so small that this problem occurs.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
nürnberg, bavaria, germany
June 27th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Rotterdam, The Netherlands!
June 27th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
Philippines!
ps. I donated a very small amount of money to you guys. I wanted to buy a pro account, but I am just a student and our money fares rather poorly against the dollar. Best of luck!
June 28th, 2007 at 1:27 am
vienna, austria.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Melbourne, Australia as well. I guess I should be geo-tagging my latest uploads so that we get on the map.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:54 am
Uppsala, Sweden.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:00 am
beijing!
and why all my uploaded photos have no camera info? but i can see other’s photos’ camera.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:09 am
bristol UK, but soon stockholm sweden!
June 28th, 2007 at 5:17 am
@Jimmy the photos’ EXIF information are only avaliable to certain cameras, it will be back up soon.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:36 am
I am the one from India - that small dot in straight North.
I wish there would had been more from this region :).
June 28th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Taiwan, baby!
June 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Vancouver Island, canada
June 28th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
@Jason: thanks for the information!
My missing pictures are not smaller than others. For example, among a group of pictures taken during the same time with the same camera, some of them are missing.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
@zhu:thanks.
and photos that i have already uploaded can also get EXIF back?
July 1st, 2007 at 3:12 am
Bangalore. India
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:45 am
Prato - Italy!
July 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Bulgaria - I wish these Geo tags were working - and hope that they will soon.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
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