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I would have said that the lack of mass uploading was a problem but as it has been noted before, there is one coming soon.

The feature I would most like to see though is a flickr->zooomr synching. That would be perfect for me. You never know if a site will have a major failure. As it is I’m uploading my photos to my personal site, flickr and zooomr. I see it as a form of backup

I totally hear what you are saying. And although most in this forum don’t know of course, you and I have gone back and forth on reiterations of this same argument in Central probably half a dozen times at least. You also certainly can attest to my moaning over and over and over again about wanting trackbacks. I suspect that you’d rather not see these added directly through a photo sharing site and rather through other outside development. API toys, greasemonkey scripts, etc.

This is just something where we are most likely going to disagree. Which is absolutely fine. There is room in the world for more than one style of photo sharing site.

And I know you do actually love the features. How many times have you mentioned live chat type technology?

But I don’t necessarily believe that features will restrict casual users or adoption. In fact I think features will drive casual user adoption. We just need to develop the right features that would appeal to these users. We are working on these types of features as well.

the most impressive thing about flickr’s development wasn’t that they were pumping our features every week in the early going, it is that they completely yanked out half the site’s functionality in mid-stream to give the service more focus. that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough as it should. they sliced out a bunch of niche features and shortly thereafter the site’s popularity skyrocketed.

And this is good for flickr. But Zooomr is not flickr. Flickr’s a great place. I love it. I spend time there every day as you know. Nobody’s a bigger fan than me. But there is room for a site too with more advanced richer photo sharing features.

Look at the super cool things you can do with portals. Check out this tour of CNET that Rafe put together: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/17626@Z01/151669 Or look at this cool detail shot on this beautiful sky in Portugal: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/brunurb/153942/ Or look, one of our users already has a tour of London up: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/17727@Z01/153167

My favorite so far of course is my own where we have used age progression technology to zooom forward into the future to see exactly what Kristopher will look like down the road (just mouse back and forth over the photo): http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/thomashawk/148236

It’s our hope that we are going to be able to build something that is very feature rich that will still appeal to advanced and casual users alike. I’m not sure the two are mutually exclusive. I think you and I will certainly continue to disagree about this and who knows, maybe you’re right and we too will end up ripping these features out later. But for the time being I’m pretty excited about them.

What I do find humorous is that had we just released simple plain old easy to understand notes like Flickr, everyone would have complained that we were just copying flickr. But when we improve on notes with interesting innovation and more advanced features we get accused of feature creep. Go figure. And see, even know I’ll probably be somehow accused of attacking flickr when you were the one who brought them up.

it is funny that you don’t think i’d be interested in a feature like this on a technical level, since over a year ago i was playing with a tool for doing exactly this that my pal Fabricio was working on using the Flickr API.

i do like this stuff, it’s just that i love my friends and neighbours being comfy and unconfused and not having to explain each and every feature to them.

Kristopher is rolling out new features very, very rapidly, more rapidly than probably any other photo sharing site out there right now.

that is exactly the problem.

the most impressive thing about flickr’s development wasn’t that they were pumping our features every week in the early going, it is that they completely yanked out half the site’s functionality in mid-stream to give the service more focus. that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough as it should. they sliced out a bunch of niche features and shortly thereafter the site’s popularity skyrocketed.

pumping out a feature in a weekend because it is easy is feature creep.

How can you guys knock this feature?

http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/thomashawk/152967

Kristopher is rolling out new features very, very rapidly, more rapidly than probably any other photo sharing site out there right now. TechCrunch covers features in the Web 2.0 space. I am sure that as other photosharing sites launch their new features TechCrunch will cover them as well. Webshots, Photobucket, Flickr, as these companies roll out features TechCrunch continues to document them. We just happen to be releasing features very quickly these days.

Maybe these features are photogeek features and don’t appeal to people like Striatic. Different strokes for different folks. I like them a lot and our users are using them.

We obviously tell TechCrunch when we launch features as we tell plenty of other blogs and news sources. Like CNET, who also covered this feature as well: http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6108175.html

And we will continue to talk to people as we roll out more features — and we have a heck of a lot more that we will roll out even in the next 30 days. My own advice to someone who wants more coverage is to innovate more and release more cool and interesting things for your users.

In terms of the comments about Zooomr not having a bulk uploader. We actually do have one coming through jUploader and it is very very close to being publicly released. It’s been in testing for the past month or so and it works really well. Another big photosharing site even just added jUploader as an official tool in their tools section earlier this month. With jUploader users will be able to easily bulk upload their photos to Zooomr. I’ve already used it to upload over 3,000 photos to Zooomr. It works great and allows you to bulk edit both tags and descriptions, something I can’t do with some of the other bulk uploaders out there today.

The reason I first got involved with Zooomr was because Kristopher was able to develop my number one requested feature from other photo sharing sites (trackbacks) in less than an hour. I had been moaning on for months and months about how I hated that when my photos were moving outside of a photosharing site that I had zero way to track them. And Kristopher said, oh that *would* be cool and developed it in an hour while we Skype chatted online. *That* was slick to me. And as far as I know we are still the only photo sharing site with trackbacks, a great tool for bloggers especially and one of the most number one requested features out there.

It is this rapid development of features that I find exciting and invigorating. Maybe we are wrong and users really won’t care about a lot of super cool features as we roll them out, maybe they are too geeky. But right now our growth is very strong in terms of all of the metrics, photos, traffic, new users, etc. Stronger than the other photosharing sites that I personally track. Maybe it’s just that we are new and small and are getting accounts with a lot of earlier adopters right now. Maybe it’s that we are giving free 2.5gb Pro accounts to bloggers to promote our site right now, but we think that people actually like new features and going to continue to improve the site with them — geek sandbox or not. Advanced users will use them. Casual users don’t have to and can still have a good time on Zooomr as well.

And as to even more really meaty social networking tools. Stay tuned. These too will be rolled out very quickly.

We are in fact aware of the bug with IE6 and the templating and are working on fixing this. We are in beta and not a perpetual beta so expect to see a bug or two.

Thanks for those that have joined Zooomr and if you have a specific feature that you’d like to see integrated or that you think would be cool on a photo sharing site, by all means, drop us a line. We’d love to hear from you.

Tom

It will be out.

I’m just sitting here waiting for Flickr to come out with half as many innovative features as Zooomr, or indeed copy them all and then all you criticising schmucks will just go “wow, Flickr is just so innovative” - its pure crap.

I love Flickr don’t get me wrong, but Zooomr is also equally as cool and has some amazing features on its site. So why don’t you stop criticising both Techcrunch and your childish ‘conspiracy’ theories and just accept that Zooomr is a great photo app. I don’t see you complaining about half the others out there that have copied Flickr - so stop putting Zooomr down and quit your whinging.

flickr reminds me of the american manned space program, reaching their intended goal and then kind of just being “the best” for a long time without really accomplishing much.

in both cases, i hope those similarities stop being apt, and soon.

i’ve got nothing against zooomr personally, i’m just tired of smacking my forehead every time i read something about them. i’d like a viable flickr alternative as much as anyone, probably more so.

As if I knew or cared wtf a lightbox is, this guy is just showing off that he knew how to code something called a “lightbox” in Javascript + DHTML (lets not use the “A” word, it is SOOOO 2005).

Here’s an idea - instead of F’ing around with your stupid “lightbox”, let me upload more than 5 pictures at a time using your lame ass web form. Is this zoomer’s way of controlling bandwidth? I have thousands of pictures and I sure ain’t gonna sit here uploading them 5 at a time.

I have yet to understand why this site and its ‘less than innovative’ brand get so much attention by the crunch staffer(s). First off, can you please spend a weekend to get your site to work in internet explorer? I know how anti-m$ the whole movement is but dont you think it would help to support the 70% market share browser?

Secondly, I know it’s probably a little too late now but you have done absolutely nothing innovative with your site. The geo-functionality on zoomer is absolutely useless and your site is starting to look more like a geek sandbox every day. And can you please host images on a provider who has decent bandwidth? I can’t even sit through a page loading.

Have you defined a market other than flickr account holders? It looks at though the owner of this site has tried diligently to elevate this ‘kid’ and his pet project to some level of fame and notoriety with no success. I think the idea is to see what influence techcrunch has on the ordinary citizen which doesn’t look like much more than a few refers.

I can’t wait to see zooooomer in the deadpool one day. 

Cheers! Don