{"id":145,"date":"2006-10-01T23:01:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T03:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/zooomr-photostream\/"},"modified":"2006-10-01T23:02:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T03:02:03","slug":"zooomr-photostream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/zooomr-photostream\/","title":{"rendered":"Zooomr Photostream"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re on the front page of my site, you’ll notice my Zooomr Photostream<\/a> in the sidebar, which I just recently added. Zooomr<\/a> is a neat photosharing site that I use since it’s currently free for near-unlimited usage. (There’s a 2 GB monthly upload limit for Pro accounts, which they were giving away for free)<\/p>\n

As far as I know, Zooomr doesn’t offer any neat “photostream” widgets like Flickr does, but they do provide an RSS<\/acronym> feed of your photos, so naturally, it was only time before a Zooomr WordPress Plugin<\/a> came around that took advantage of that RSS<\/acronym> feed to offer photostream-like capability to your blog. I decided to give it a try, and was quite impressed. It’s simple, but works well, as you can fully control the format in which your photos are displayed. It’s a nice workaround\/solution until Zooomr decides to implement something themselves.<\/p>\n

So why do I not use Flickr? Well, it basically boils down to cost – Flickr’s only really good if you have a Pro account, which costs money. Being a cheap student, I have limited cash right now – but don’t get me wrong, I do think Flickr rocks. In fact, in terms of features, I do believe Flickr has Zooomr beat, despite my willingness to switch<\/a>. With Flickr, it’s far easier to edit a bunch of photos, to change their tags, titles and other metadata using the drag & drop batch edit mode. Flickr also has more intuitive navigation within sets and some other small differences that make the user experience better. But that’s enough; I don’t intend for this to be a Flickr vs. Zooomr entry, as there are already posts about that<\/a> available.<\/p>\n

I do hope, however, that Zooomr continues to improve as it moves out of beta. (And possibly into gamma!)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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