Archive for February, 2007
The new r-experience
I have stumbled upon a new interesting website today: beta.zooomr.com
zooomr is basically another photo sharing service like flickr, picasa, or kodakgallery (there’s plenty of them!).
To be honest, it is suspiciously similar to flickr! It offers almost the same features and it has a quite similar interface. I think they might be using the same frameworks, at least on the javascript side, as some parts of the interface are identical (text editing, notes, tag editing…).
I looked for any connection to flickr or Yahoo, but it seems that this is an independent project, with three developers (leaded by Kristopher Tate) and Wendell Davis III as interim CEO (google his name and you will find out that he is not a newcomer).
zooomr introduces some nice features that are missing (or less useful) in flickr (but the latter has a far better web design IMHO 
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