Zooomr, a photosharing-site indicating it’s adjacence with flickr not only by it’s vowel-scanting name, got a minor overhaul earlier this week. the launch of Zooomr 2.0 was originally scheduled for friday 14th, but had to be postponed due DDOS-attacks and further technical problems. Zooomr 2.0 improves on many existing features which outplay flickr, like shiny geotagging (google maps mashed up), keyword tagging, backtrack-support, del.icio.us-integration and audio-annotations (coined ‘Zooomrtations’). on the downside, the Zooomr-servers seem to be even slower than flickr’s, at least here in europe. moreover, Zooomr will have a hard time to match with flickr’s greatest advantage – its numerous integrations with other services (my favorite one, shozu, allowing me to upload photos from my cellphone by a single click).
attention: Zooomr currently offers free pro-accounts to bloggers – the ‘Rats! In My Brain’-blog explains how to obtain one…
