Thanks for the update. All those changes did get lost because they were subtle. I really appreciate the new Organizr.

http://www.geosnapper.com

-Jake

http://wwmx.org/

Maybe it was too “research’y” with papers published at ACM Multimedia 2003 etc. for people to take notice

Cheers

http://webdev.yuan.cc/ pprovides a geasemonkey script where you can have a google map inside flickr. Point Click easy.

Flickrmap.com has a great tool that allows Geotagging of flickr photos using google earth.

etc.

Once geotagged there are lots of ways to use the flickr photos.

One of the great advanatages currently to flickr is the hundreds of mash-ups that allow one to easily access flickrphotos and do neat things with them. So flickr has loads of its own features plus lots of features from mash-ups as well.

For example I post flickr photos to my Joomla and Wordpress powered websites with a single click due to great easyto use plug-ins. Zooomr has a long way to catch up in the field of plug-ins and mash ups.

I wish zooomr well but its features currently don’t cut it for me especially 3rd party support. .

Re the main topic: these are not the droids you’re looking for.

To John (#29): I’m really sorry you feel that way. It’s definitely not the impression we want to give. We weren’t as fast with the features over the last year as we were in the first year.

This is not an excuse, but an explanation: since last June, we’ve grown a by a factor of a few hundred to a few thousand percent, depending on the category. At the same time, the whole company moved - that means getting work visas, finding apartments or houses, getting new drivers licenses, etc. Not a huge deal in itself, but when a whole company has to do it, all at once while growing at 50% a month (or whatever we were at then), it can knock you off your game. It took us a while to recover, and then a while to come up with an architecture that was going to let us cope with the growth over the long term. That mostly wrapped up this spring, but it did use up everything we had for a while.
(Having said that, we did launch a bunch of major new features in that period, like interestingness and clustering, real-time search that actually works, printing, a site redesign, launch a completely new version of organizr (which itself had a dozen of so small new sub-features) as well as lots of smaller things like commenting on sets, replacing photos, group throttles, set and group adding tools, etc.)
But, the bottom line is: this year will have a lot more active development than last year. While we’ll never get back to the pace of year one because of the scale — back then we might have served a hundred thousand photos on a peak day, now we might serve 9,000 photos per second at peak — there’s a big backlog of features to come

Re geotagging photos: As far as I know, Myron is right and GEOsnapper was first — but there have been some newer entrants (like Panoramio) and established sites like SmugMug have added geotagging (I think they did it a year ago or so).

Hypothetically, if Flickr were to add native geotagging features, I suspect we’d be starting out with the largest number of geotagged photos (there are over a quarter million already, geotagged via 3rd party tools - including the much-missed geobloggers.com, created by our own Dan Catt).

Considering how Zoomr is practically a clone of Flickr with some things sprinkled on top, I’m surprised you’d bring up a “they’re copying our feature” point.

I have accounts at both sites and use both but you’re only making yourself look bad by making that post.

http://socialsoftware.weblogsi.....nd-photos/

Apparently Zooomr is not just Flickr clone but a hybrid of http://www.flickr.com and http://www.panoramio.com …

I’m pretty sure smugmug was the 1st photo sharing service to provide 1st party assisted geotagging, quickly followed by zoto and a handful of others.

Just saying.

Freaky by great crab btw.