Comments on: Zooomr, 17 Year Old Developer Kristopher Tate Building a Photo Sharing Site to Rival Flickr http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/zooomr-17-year-old-developer.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:48:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Raoul http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/zooomr-17-year-old-developer.html/comment-page-1#comment-9979 Raoul Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1438#comment-9979 This is an interesting post, Tom, considering your current position! :-D This is an interesting post, Tom, considering your current position! :-D

]]> By: Chrono Cr@cker http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/zooomr-17-year-old-developer.html/comment-page-1#comment-9980 Chrono Cr@cker Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:11:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1438#comment-9980 You have a good blog Thomashawk and unlike other blogs, you don't have image verification which is a ++.<br /><br />Excellent post. Though Zoomr seems to have copied a lot from Flickr. We'd like to see more innovation though. The name is 100% uncreative! You have a good blog Thomashawk and unlike other blogs, you don’t have image verification which is a ++.

Excellent post. Though Zoomr seems to have copied a lot from Flickr. We’d like to see more innovation though. The name is 100% uncreative!

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/zooomr-17-year-old-developer.html/comment-page-1#comment-9981 Anonymous Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1438#comment-9981 zoomr is awesome...if only they could incorporate face recognition like what riya.com does. This would be heaven. zoomr is awesome…if only they could incorporate face recognition like what riya.com does. This would be heaven.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2006/03/zooomr-17-year-old-developer.html/comment-page-1#comment-9982 Anonymous Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1438#comment-9982 As nice as Zooomr is, and it does look quite nice, it is a shame to see that so much of it is so derivative of Flickr. Of course, that is something of a backhanded compliment to Flickr suggesting that their devs came up with some winning useability and designs but at the same time, it surely smacks of something a little bit underhand to be openly following the same forms and functions so closely. Does it suggest a lack of imagination, a desire to freeload off of the existing success of the "incumbent" or the claim that this interface style is simply the one true way? Wisdom suggests competition is healthy and no doubt Flickr and others will ultimately benefit from seeing some of the innovations made by this new entrant to the field... but I'd rather each competitor attempt at the very least to demonstrate some effort at creating their own identity instead of appearing (at least) to be riding the coat-tails of success of another's. As nice as Zooomr is, and it does look quite nice, it is a shame to see that so much of it is so derivative of Flickr. Of course, that is something of a backhanded compliment to Flickr suggesting that their devs came up with some winning useability and designs but at the same time, it surely smacks of something a little bit underhand to be openly following the same forms and functions so closely. Does it suggest a lack of imagination, a desire to freeload off of the existing success of the “incumbent” or the claim that this interface style is simply the one true way? Wisdom suggests competition is healthy and no doubt Flickr and others will ultimately benefit from seeing some of the innovations made by this new entrant to the field… but I’d rather each competitor attempt at the very least to demonstrate some effort at creating their own identity instead of appearing (at least) to be riding the coat-tails of success of another’s.

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