Zooomr 3.0 – Dave vs. Goliath

from my point of view, Zooomr vs. Flickr is the perfect web 2.0-rendition of the rather scriptical Dave vs. Goliath-meme, except that Flickr is a web 2.0 poster-boy everybody – including myself – seems to love – leaving aside recent censorship issues – which brings me to another point: I really think it’s [...]

roundup for 2007-02-28 … Second Life / Apollo / Flickr

sooner than expected, Linden Labs yesterday announced integration of voice-messaging into Second Life for Q2/2007, with a beta-run starting as early as next week. while residents have been using Skype and other popular teamspeak-applications since ages, the native SL-feature will go further by offering 3D-enabled, spatial audio. if done properly, this will increase the [...]

flickr triple-update

few days ago, flickr announced three major improvements on their official blog. while the Camera Finder (a very smart way of utilizing metadata generated by millions of users, paving flickr’s way becoming a vertical shopping-authority for cameras) got all the coverage a company could hope for, I’m more excited about the other two features:

‘Guest Pass’ [...]

mashup: Snapp Radio

Janko Röttgers from netzwelt.de discovered snappradio.com, a cool mashup developed at Sun Labs. snappradio generates flickr-slideshows accompanying the music currently playing on last.fm by matching tags between both services. as Janko points out, this works quite well for better-known bands but might also bring out funny results (like getting aeroplane-shots from North Western Alliance [=airline] [...]

flickr adds geotagging

TechCrunch reports tonights addition of geotagging-features to flickr. using a slick AJAX-interface, photos can be drag&dropped on Yahoo! Maps for adding geo-information. using flickr’s photo-organizer, batches of photos are easily processed in a single step. users can browse their own and public photos by geographic data and generate maps displaying all their photos. geo-features were [...]