Building a SmartSet in Zooomr 2.0
Good news blogosphere. Kristopher Tate, the 17 year old wunderkind blogged about previously here as the fastest developer of the photo trackback feature in the West, can now vote. Yes, that's right, he's 18 now and well what better way to ring in the celebrated 18th year than by releasing a new version of his software. Mike Arrington has the scoop, and Arington's screenshots (yes of course it is ironic, mine and Arrington's Zooomr screenshots on Flickr), and Tate is saying that he will roll out version 2.0 of Zooomr later this month.
Arrington previously dubbed Tate's Zooomr as "Flickr on Steroids," high praise coming from the Web 2.0 blogmeister himself.
So what's new in version 2.0? I've had a chance to play around with the beta software for the past few days and some pretty cool stuff. One of the main new features is something called SmartSets. SmartSets really are best thought of as live dynamic photo search, but the application for photo sets and photo pools are huge.
One of the most requested features at Flickr has been something called sets of sets. The idea is this. Let's say I go to Italy on vacation and want to create a set or album of photos to share called Italy 2006. But then I also want to create different sub sets within that set, say "Italy Florence 2006" "Italy Rome 2006" maybe "Italy kids 2006". Right now with Flickr this is not easy to do.
What Zooomr 2.0 does with SmartSets is allows you to sort and dice your photos and also everyone else's public photos in many different ways. So you could, for instance, have a set with all of your photos tagged Italy2006 and under that set a set called Italy2006Florence, etc.
Please click through to continue to read: thomashawk.com/2006/06/zooomr-set-to-launch-version-20-la...
Building a SmartSet in Zooomr 2.0
Good news blogosphere. Kristopher Tate, the 17 year old wunderkind blogged about previously here as the fastest developer of the photo trackback feature in the West, can now vote. Yes, that's right, he's 18 now and well what better way to ring in the celebrated 18th year than by releasing a new version of his software. Mike Arrington has the scoop, and Arington's screenshots (yes of course it is ironic, mine and Arrington's Zooomr screenshots on Flickr), and Tate is saying that he will roll out version 2.0 of Zooomr later this month.
Arrington previously dubbed Tate's Zooomr as "Flickr on Steroids," high praise coming from the Web 2.0 blogmeister himself.
So what's new in version 2.0? I've had a chance to play around with the beta software for the past few days and some pretty cool stuff. One of the main new features is something called SmartSets. SmartSets really are best thought of as live dynamic photo search, but the application for photo sets and photo pools are huge.
One of the most requested features at Flickr has been something called sets of sets. The idea is this. Let's say I go to Italy on vacation and want to create a set or album of photos to share called Italy 2006. But then I also want to create different sub sets within that set, say "Italy Florence 2006" "Italy Rome 2006" maybe "Italy kids 2006". Right now with Flickr this is not easy to do.
What Zooomr 2.0 does with SmartSets is allows you to sort and dice your photos and also everyone else's public photos in many different ways. So you could, for instance, have a set with all of your photos tagged Italy2006 and under that set a set called Italy2006Florence, etc.
Please click through to continue to read: thomashawk.com/2006/06/zooomr-set-to-launch-version-20-la...