Zooomr? Wait for Mark III!
I recommend you reading Raoul Pop’s review of Zooomr, as it is more extensive and comprehensive.
While browsing Alex King’s blog I’ve stumbled upon a post mentioning that Zooomr is giving away pro account to any blogger who will blog about them, and add a photo from Zooomr to that post. While Flickr pro account costs 25$ receiving something similar for free sounded inviting.
So I’ve registered to Zooomr. The registration is easy because they use OpenID (more on OpenID next week). Except of the blessed use of OpenID, I was disappointed of Zooomr – their UI is unpleasent to use, there’s no sets (only autosets that group images by tags) and overall feeling wasn’t good as using Flickr. Also there is no API, which means no cool widgets or mashups such as we’ve with Flickr.
I couldn’t find any information on their website about the Pro account or how it differentiate from the standard account.
Update: I’ve just been upgraded to a Pro account. The only difference as I see it is that the limit has grown from 100MB to 4GB.
I will apply for the Pro account, just to keep an eye on them in order to see how they evolve – it’s beta after all, and they do have some potential. Maybe I will use their services to store the blog images and Flickr as my personal images storage…
What did you think of Zooomr?
Arik