This morning a couple new features were made available to image sharing sites Flickr and Zooomr. While trying to get my morning fix of Flickr I mysteriously could not load the site. Frustrated I ended up checking in on Zooomr to find that “Discover” had been enhanced to find the latest and greatest by hour, the last day, the last week, the last month and the last year. I’m looking forward to checkin
So about a year ago Photosynth was announced by Microsoft and to be honest I was unimpressed. For those that don’t know what Photosynth is it’s a unique technology approach to allow users to search across a vast number of images in a very interactive way. To quote Microsoft’s take on this I’ll quote their web site: “Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object,
Last night just before bed at 2:30AM I saw an announcement from Thomas Hawk on Twitter that Zooomr had launched. When I checked though it was still experiencing problems. Fast forward to this morning Zooomr is up and running. Congratulations to Thomas and Kristopher who run the site. This has been one of the rougher site launches that I’ve seen. The initial Zooomr launch was attempted March 13th with occasional
It would seem Zooomr Mark III is being released today. Strangely I’m not seeing how to login just yet. At the moment the index page consists of two videos, one a message from Kristopher and the other a demo of the sites new features. Once released I’m looking forward to diving in and exploring what is being offered. With Yahoo’s Flickr and SmugSmug having stock sales functionality on the horizon it
This weekend per Thomas Hawk’s blog I found out that Yahoo search is now including Flickr images as an expanded search option on a finite number of terms. I wanted to take a closer look at this to see exactly what approach Yahoo was taking with the pool of Flickr images. To date the terms include the following… Search Results Linked to Flickr’s Highest Traffic Page interesting photos Search Results
One of the coolest applications leveraging the Twitter API is Twittervision. From time to time when things are slow it’s pretty fun just to check out and see what conversations are happening across the world. Today Flickrvision Beta appears to have been released by Dave Troy. In a similar fashion to Twittervision, as photos are posted on Flickr the information is laid over a Google maps page. Note: The photos s
Today on the Flickr Blog it’s been announced that the slideshow function has been updated. Announcing Slideshow 2007 (Web User Edition) – Flickr Blog I’m interested to see this in action in more than one way. For one it will be nice to see this applied on the Flickr site and it will be neat to see how it may be employed via the Flickr API. In looking at my Flickr site this change is in effect as of
A few weeks ago I discovered a great site called photographyVoter.com, founded by Paul O’Connor. The site is similar to Digg.com, but is squarely focused around photography. For a little more background check out Interview with Paul O’Connor. In case you missed it check out my last recommended photography resource: “Photographer Rights & Education“