Zooomr

Zooomr.com is photosharing for grown-ups. You won’t find a lot of Help or FAQ’s on this “beta” site, but you will find a superior way to upload, organize and share your photos online. Just think flickr but better, and free.

5 things I like about Zooomr:

Zooomr is easy.
While still in “beta”, Zooomr’s interface is well organized, fast and easy to use. Sign-up is a cinch, and thanks to jUploadr getting your photos online is equally simple. I’m hoping to see an update to the interface however, when it finds its way out of beta.

Zooomr is cool.
At the ripe old age of 18, creator Kristopher Tate is giving photosharing giant flickr.com, a run for its money. I got to meet Kris, and Evangelist & CEO Thomas Hawk, in Seattle last October. These are 2 smart guys who understand you don’t compete by being first, you do it by being better.

Zooomr is global.
Translated into 17 languages Zooomr is available to almost everyone, everywhere. And versitile geo-tagging allows you to pinpoint precisely where your photos were taken, and see other peoples’ photos that were taken in the same area, etc…

Zooomr is smart.
Smart Sets is one of the coolest features of Zooomr. Rather than manually building and organizing your photo sets (ugh), you can use tags (among other things) to build dynamically updating sets from your photos, other peoples’ photos, or both.

Zooomr is free!
Bloggers (or rather, anyone with a blog) can get a 4GB Pro account for free, just follow these simple instructions.

New features and improvements are already underway for 2007 - most exciting is “Marketplace”, a channel for selling your images ala iStockphoto.com (although, I expect it will be nothing like iStock). So go check out Zooomr now!

This just goes to show that a couple of people with a good idea can make waves in the new economy. Good stuff! Makes me want to start a business! Oh, I just did....

Posted 01-03-2007, 10:30 pm, by Andrew Hedges

Hey Mark, it was really good to meet you in Seattle!

Thanks for the awesome post on Zooomr and please keep in touch.

-Kristopher

Posted 01-04-2007, 10:37 pm, by Kristopher Tate

Hmm...need camera first...need money for camera. Darnit.

Posted 01-08-2007, 07:15 am, by Blake

I have to admit that I'm pretty wedded to flickr... however, it's nice to have a decent alternative if I ever want to switch.

I DO really like the "Photos _______ is inside of" feature... that's slick.

Posted 01-08-2007, 07:58 am, by Joshua Lane

I really like what Kristopher has done and is doing functionally with Zooomr.com, but I have to say, he could use a bit of Mark Bixby on the visual/UI design side of things.

Posted 07-15-2008, 11:03 pm, by Sean Malone

Should be interesting to see just how well it does in the long run because I for one see video sites being the future and photo sharing sites to fade away like tagging sites have already!

Posted 07-17-2009, 02:11 am, by Jen

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