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| URL | http://www.zooomr.com/ |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Photo sharing |
| Registration | Free |
| Owner | BlueBridge Technologies Group |
| Created by | Kristopher Tate |
Zooomr is a website for sharing digital photos. It has over 50,000 users[citation needed].
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Zooomr was created in 2005 by Kristopher Tate of BlueBridge Technologies Group. BBC Profile - March 2007 ".NET" magazine article - December 2006
On March 11, 2006, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted an article on Zooomr that termed the photo-sharing site as "Flickr on Steroids", a common phrase now used in association with Zooomr. This article is best known as the starting date of Zooomr\'s up-start popularity.
On June 19, 2006, Thomas Hawk, a well-known photographer and blogger from San Francisco, officially joined Tate to work as Zooomr\'s "Chief Evangelist." On July 17, 2006, Zooomr released Zooomr 2 which introduced SmartSets, improved geotagging of photos via TagMap, and many enhancements in speed, design and performance. Features such as Notes and Portals were added to Zooomr on August 22, 2006.
Zooomr launched "Zooomr: Mark III" on May of 2007. The site was up for approximately 20 minutes before crashing due to a severe hardware failure[citation needed]. On June 3, 2007, Zooomr successfully launched "Mark III" with the help of Sun Microsystems and Zoho.[citation needed]
Zooomr is currently scheduled to launch Zooomer Release 2008 on March 3rd, 2008, according to comments made by Kristopher Tate at a recent presentation in Tokyo.
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In many ways, the site appears to be modeled after another well-known photo site called Flickr, and the two services share a number of so-called Web 2.0 features such as tagging, Ajax, RSS, and GeoTagging. But each site offers features the other does not.
Unlike some similar sites, Zooomr has a multi-login capability, using a service called OpenID.
Zooomr was added to popular Java-based batch photo uploaders. Previously users had to upload photos with an online form limited to 10 images.
Other features include LightBox (not to be confused with the aforementioned LightMap), which resembles a slide show; which allows users to append short audio commentary to individual photos; SmartSets, which are dynamically-generated albums (much like iPhoto\'s Smart Albums); and PeopleTags, which allows users to add themselves inside photos and search for people inside photos.
Recently added features include Notes, Portals, and an improved version of PeopleTags. They allow a user to draw boxes over sections of a photo in order to append a portion of text, or point out an individual in the photo, or to link to another photo (much like hotspots in QuickTime VR.
Another well known feature that other photo-sharing sites do not offer is a feature called \'Zipline\'. This allows users to say something to one of their \'contacts\' or to see when a contact uploads photos. The other user can respond in real time. This is almost identical to a Chat Room or Instant Messenger.
Zooomr has no limits on uploading, storing and archiving photos. There is however a "PRO" account option, which is free of advertising and allows users to see who "Faved" and commented on their photos with a feature called, "Social Stream".
Zooomr allows users to license their photos under the six regularly used schemes provided by Creative Commons licensing. All photos are still posted under All Rights Reserved conditions, but users have the option of selecting a different license after uploading.
Additionally, as of January 5, 2008, photos can be searched based on the license attribute.
Zooomr is localized in 16 locales (Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English (UK & US), Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese (BR), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). Notably, many other websites commonly classified as "Web 2.0" have not embraced localization, distinguishing Zooomr in that regard. Compared with other photo-sharing sites, Zooomr tends to have a higher proportion of photos from countries other than the US.
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