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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 pretty ingenious of Thomas Hawk, CEO of Zooomr, to use Flickr.com as their primary PR-platform.

but anyway. as of today, Zooomr now has Twitter-like notification features and - coming up - a marketplace which will enable photographers to monetize their work. if that’s not enough, maybe Zooomr’s unlimited & free diskspace might lure you away from Flickr - I’m certainly tempted…

read my earlier coverage of Zooomr…

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…