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Zooomr

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 created in 2005 by web developer Kristopher Tate of BlueBridge Technologies Group for sharing digital photos.

The site is in continuous development and exited its private beta stage in February 2006. According to Tate, the site has well over 15,000 users, who can browse and comment on others' photos as well as upload their own.

Contents 1 Recent developments 2 Features 3 Accounts 4 Licensing 5 Localization 6 See also 7 Footnotes 8 External links

On March 11, 2006, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch posted^[1] an article on Zooomr that termed the photo-sharing site as "Flickr on Steroids," a common phrase^[2] 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 San Franciscan photographer and blogger, officially joined Tate to work as Zooomr's "Chief Evangelist."

On July 17, 2006, Zooomr released^[3] Zooomr 2. Zooomr 2 features SmartSets, improved geotagging of photos via TagMap, as well as many speed, design and performance enhancements.

On August 22, 2006, features such as Notes and Portals were added to Zooomr^[4].

In many ways, the site appears to be modeled after another well-known photo site called Flickr, and while the two services do share a number of so-called Web 2.0 features such as tagging, Ajax, RSS, and GeoTagging, each site offers features the other does not.

Zooomr was added to jUploader, a Java-based batch photo uploader, on September 11th 2006. Previously users had to upload photos with an online form limited to 10 images.

One feature that sets Zooomr apart from similar sites is multi-login capability, using a service called OpenID. OpenID allows users to register accounts with unaffiliated websites (in particular LiveJournal), and log into Zooomr with that same account without having to type the password a second time. At one time, the site allowed users to log in via XMPP with an account from Google, but these accounts have since been migrated to the OpenID system.

Other features include LightBox (not to be confused with the aforementioned LightMap), which resembles a slide show; Zooomrtations, 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 of photos, along with searching for people inside of photos.

Recently added features include Notes, Portals, and an improved version of PeopleTags. These three features 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.

Zooomr has no limits on uploading, storing and archiving photos.^[1]

Like Flickr, Zooomr enables users to licence their photos in different ways. Though photos default to All Rights Reserved, users may opt to licence their photos under various Creative Commons licencing schemes.

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.

• Sharpcast
• Fotki
• Flickr
• ImageOcean
• Photobucket
• Smugmug
• Fotolog
• Google Maps
• OpenID
• LiveJournal
• Creative Commons
• Twango

• Zooomr
• Zooomr Blog