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I just got official word that Zooomr was published in Metrotime again — this time with a full-page spread. And again, here’s the translation with photo of the print:

SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD SHAKES PHOTOSERVICE OUT OF HIS SLEEVE

SAN FRANCISCO: Kristopher Tate has created an online photoservice that
measures up without many problems to established services such as
Flickr. Tate is seventeen and wrote the application in about three
months

“Flickr has some catching up to do” headlines TechCrunch, the online
news and web2.0-gossip channel. Zooomr, the photoservice written by the
american Tate is being described as ‘Flickr on Steroids’. Flickr is a
popular internet-service. You can put your pictures on it, and share and
edit them also. The company has recently been bought by portal Yahoo!.
Flickr touts userfriendliness, but Zooomr is said to have that extra bit
more. Testing it unfortunately didn’t work, because Zooomr was
temporary offline, but is online again now. Its servers had buckled
under the immense attention of the readers of Digg and Slashdot.
Zooomr can be used with accounts of different webcompanies, a reaction
to the fact that after the takeover by Yahoo!, Flickr started pushing
the use of Yahoo! accounts. Other improvements include adding audio to
a picture, tight integration with Google Maps so you can pinpoint where
the picture was taken and which pictures are taken in the vicinity, and
also link pictures with people. Zooomr is fast if the server isn’t
overcharged. The pictures can be blown-up with a simple click. Just
like Flickr, you can keep your album private or just for family or
friends.

And the associated photo:

Zooomr’s Dutch localizer, Kris Vandecruys, caught me in today’s issue of Metro. Here’s what he had to say:

SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD WHIZZKID OUTSMARTS YAHOO’S PHOTOSERVICE

“The 17-year old Kristopher Tate has, in a mere 3 months time, hacked
together a photoservice on steroids. His application offers much better
services than competitors such as Flickr, Yahoo’s Photoservice, and
believes in the Web-2.0 Religion. More to see at 17h00 CET at
metrotime.be“

I tried to stay as close to the original text as possible, hence the
ugly English here and there. The sentence about the religion thing is
really hard to translate directly, the religion thing really isn’t
relevant. Think of it more as a pretty way of saying you’re running a
clean web2.0 app. CET == GMT/UTC+1.

The name of the newspaper is Metro and iirc has some 616,000 readers. Congrats man, you’re Big in
Belgium!

Here’s a photo and its original text. Click it for a bigger size.

Thanks,

Kristopher Tate

I took the time to sitdown with Eoban Binder as he interviewed me about Zooomr. From the article:

This week AppleXnet interviews Kristopher Tate, creator of a new photo-sharing service called Zooomr. I met Kristopher a couple of weeks ago and decided to help him localise Zooomr into French; during that time, I became interested in Zooomr itself and its potential to change photo-sharing on the internet for the better.

It’s a fun read. Check it out here.

Kristopher Tate