First the introductions.
Now there is this Flickr site that has been around for a long while, and it seems like all the cool people are using it, even the cool people that have their own web site, or even design web sites for a living. So I figure maybe I can be cool too, so I’m giving it a try.
There is also Zooomr (why everything has to have an ‘r’ at the end is beyond me) that is an answer to Flickr that also includes maps to set a location for the picture as well. I don’t know that the ‘cool’ people are using it, but I think the ‘geeks’ are. I wanna be cool, but I used to be a geek too (still recovering — I have my tendencies that will never go away) so I’ll give that a try as well.
Lastly, Riya. It doesn’t end with an ‘r’, I like it already. It seems to have face recognition technology or something like that.
So I uploaded one picture to each of these sites (well, not exactly, we’ll get to that in a second). Here’s what I know about the sites so far. With Flickr you can upload either through the web site or with software (in-house or 3rd party). With Zooomr you have to use the website, but you can do multiple uploads at once. With Riya, you have to use the software… and the software doesn’t work. It just sat there scanning for files to upload but not doing anything other then consuming 100% of my processor time and heating up my computer big time even though I set it to upload from a folder that had only one picture in it. So Riya is already disqualified.
As for the pictures, here they are:
First from Flickr
And then from Zooomr
DSC_0809 Hosted on ZooomrAll I had to do to get the image on my blog with both services was copy and text the code they prepared, pretty simple.
So at the end of my highly unscientific test, I have to say good job to Flickr and keep working at it to Zooomr (software based uploading would be appreciated). But then again, Flickr is the original, has been around a long time, and is owned by Yahoo, where as Zooomr is a beta, privately done, and built by a genius 17-year old.
I really can’t say too much about either of these sites because I just put one simple picture up, so I’ll have to keep playing around and see which one I think is really better. I also hope to hear from anyone who uses either of these and knows something more about them then I to help me make a decision on which is best to use in order to achieve my goal of being cool.
Don’t forget Zooomrations! Those are pretty cool.
BTW, Kris Tate is really into learning Japanese right now. I’m curious how big Zooomr is there. It seems like it’s catching on pretty quickly in Taiwan, but there are very few people using it in mainland China so far.
“Zooomrations” What are those? They sound cool?
I did this little experiment because I saw you were using Zooomr, so I was actually hoping that you would say exactly what it is about Zooomr that does it for you where Flickr doesn’t. Let me know
Well, the first thing that made me wanna jump ship was the cool AJAX-stuffed interface. There were quite a few things that Flickr required page reloads in Flickr that could be much more quickly in Zooomr. Changing names, tags, and descriptions associated with pictures was much more convenient with Zooomr; after clicking on text, a yellow box behind it would appear, and you could edit it immediately. Now, Flickr has copied that functionality.
However, Zooomr still has some features Flickr doesn’t. Geotags are my favorite. I guess you probably already know about them, if you read my blog. Zooomrations neat too; they’re audio narrations that you can link to your pictures. I have one at:
http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/Mark/78572
Another feature I really like is trackbacks. I can see who’s linking to my pictures and check them out. As for the mass-uploader, Zooomr’s should be ready in about a week. For now, the big thing Zooomr’s missing is the huge user base of Flickr. But make no mistake, if they keep going like this on the geeking end of things, they’ll get the cool people, too. Flickr started out as geeky as can be- it was for chatroom based photo sharing program for a game called Game Neverending.
I have a theory about the crazy names. All the really normal English words are gone. Soon, photo-sharing start-ups will have to resort to names like Snapsh00ter or Revea1er.
Hey, what plug-in do you use for this AXAJ comment posting? I like it.
Oh, yeah. I mis-spelled “Zooomrtations” above
One more cool thing about Zooomr, it was built from the ground up in 15 languages. Flickr’s been English-only.
http://beta.zooomr.com/home?lang=ja_JP
http://beta.zooomr.com/home?lang=zh_CN
Um yea, I wanted to mention that but decided I would do it in it’s own post…
I can’t vouch for the Chinese translations, but the Japanese translations are clearly done by a machine, and down right funny!! Just image how a machine would translate ‘available’ for your relationship status. Or ‘relationship status’ for that matter.
I wanted to mention that when you said the guy who made it was studying Japanese. It’s so bad (hilarious) in some parts that I wanted to email them and offer to fix some things.
It almost makes me wonder if he did them himself as uh… practice.
I thought some of the Chinese was weird. I wouldn’t say
But wouldn’t it be embarrassing if I was wrong…. hehe.. However I’m fairly (about 1235.99999%) sure I’m not…
I’m sure with your Japanese and Kanji skills, you can look at this and see what I mean…
“already acquired” and “usable”. Hahaha.
Not a plugin actually, it’s part of this theme that me and the rest of the world is using, k2. There is a link at the bottom of every page.
Oh. I’m using the Toshuo theme, and I’m not gonna switch
You’re a smart guy, I bet you could figure it out by dissecting the code
Which reminds me of something I wanted to email you about. I myself am not such a ‘smart guy’, but can do design and take pictures. I’m working on getting my site running again (a few years ago I had an awesome ASP/Access site running out of my basement that comments and everything years before ‘blogs’ came around) and will likely need some help. (My old site, besides the code being lost with the rest of the data on the server, was ASP and all that jazz. I don’t know anything about PHP or mySQL, or even the latest HTML anymore.) I’ll email you about that.