Comments on: Why I’m Going to Work for Zooomr

By: zooomr

zooomr — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:56:47 +0000

Zooomr is fantastic, and it’s in a terrific market with over a dozen quality sites offering similar similar tools for online photo sharing and manipulation.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:05:07 +0000

If you like flickr, I’m sure you’d like blipfoto.com also.
It’s a little different but a really great site, most of
the people on blip are on flickr too!

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:02:00 +0000

Thomas,
That is great news about Zooomr. I am on both Flickr and Zooomr and I’m also on Buzznet. I like many things about each of the sites. I look forward to the improvements coming to Zooomr. And I really like how many people have found my photos, many more than on Flickr. And I’ve been on Buzznet the longest but I only post my daily photo there. Next year I’m going to probably get a widget together to host my Photo-A-Day on either Zooomr or Flickr.

By: The Blackhall Blogger

The Blackhall Blogger — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:13:00 +0000

Tom, I’ve just seen you portfolio on the BBC site – nice! I thought you may be interested in having a look at this, www. blipfoto.com. It’s in it’s first beta incarnation but has been tested over a year

It’s based on a very different premis. Everyday you take a shot – document a life and open it up to the world. The banal becomes facinating – just starting but a big future.

By: johncurley

johncurley — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:25:00 +0000

Thomas, congratulations, this is really awesome. It's inspiring to see someone following their passion.

I hope many good things come of this, and I know you'll be even more inspired to take great pictures.

It's very exciting, and I'm really happy for you.

By: John Piercy

John Piercy — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:19:00 +0000

Congrats Thomas ,,on your new job

Hope to keep seeing your awesome pictures

Canadianguy

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:42:00 +0000

both *fully* understand the relevence of community. That's a big part of why I was brought in to work with him and a big part of what we are developing to roll out in our next version.

Community is the single most important thing that makes any Web 2.0 company work. We totally believe that. We will build a community at Zooomr but at the same time we will do so by creating the most kick ass photo sharing site that they've ever seen.

You are going to be surprised at how relevent metadata is going to become for enhancing community especially.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:15:00 +0000

i haven’t played with zooomr a lot yet but i understand a bit about
the tech business…
“thomas hawk” makes a few good points about where zooomr has advantages from a technical point of view, but he makes the same mistake almost all start-up investors make, he doesn’t understand his audience. the average photo website user (same goes for weblogs and other web 2.0
applications) doesn’t really care about geek features like trackbacks and geotagging. the thing that made flickr a success (and the big success story with shitty software: myspace) is the social aspect – bring enough users together and allow them to interact on a very simple level and you may have a winner even without the perfect product (or a constant beta). it’s not just about features, it’s about user experience.

then again, a lot of these start-ups just try to stay around long enough before they get bought out by Google, Yahoo or Microsoft – the only thing that changed since the first bubble burst is the exit strategy in the business plan. back then everybody was hoping for an IPO, now they are working towards a buy-out. zooomr might make it to the end of the cycle but i don’t see it becoming a big player before it either gets bought out or just collapses.

By: John Wilson

John Wilson — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:59:00 +0000

Tom Raftery makes a great point & what a marketing dilema – reveal your true identity and lose your “net brand recognition” OR become into Thomas Hawk (with all the personal admin hassle that entails, especially with the trail commission from your investment advisory work)…..

Greatly admire your photography and insightful blog – your passion is evident.

I wish you great success with the new venture – having fun & making money at the same time is the place to be at.

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:42:00 +0000

Congrats Tom - it's great to hear about someone pursuing (sp?) their passion professionally.

I have long enjoyed your photos on Flickr and look forward to now enjoying them on Zooomr too!

btw, does this mean you will be de-cloaking and telling us your real name?