Why must you be such a little contrarian ogged?
I'm counting on you to figure out a superior solution and tell it to us.
I'm also counting on finding out that it's not Mac-friendly.
You're just supposed to mail it to c0ck at unfogged dot com.
Also, the zoomer lightbox thing is kind of nice, but the interface still needs some work. The first couple of time I tried to use I thought it wasn't working, turns out it was just slow.
If you want fast and easy, try Google's Picasa Web Albums.
Here's a sample:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hwillpix/MiscellaneousShotsInLA
it was just slow
A little slow, yes, but much faster/more convenient than clicking and then clicking back, or opening a new window.
fast and easy
Did I say I wanted fast and easy? Do I seem like that kind of guy?
"Fast and easy" isn't ALWAYS a lie perpetrated by the gummint. And IMX there's a lot to be said for quickies in general.
One thing that bugs me about flickr is that you can't make a photo "sticky" to keep it at the top of the page.
Another weird thing is flickr's sense of "interestingness", which just seems totally random.
Did you intend for us to get a Devo-inspired "Flick It" song stuck in our heads with your post title or am I just lucky?
6: I'm not so much complaining about the slowness as I'm complaining that it didn't tell me it was doing something, so I initially though it hadn't worked.
3: By the way, whatever happened to that project?
3: By the way, whatever happened to that project?
When eight c0cks have been sent in, they will be posted. Or, we could just abandon it.
12 - OTOH, I'm also thinking about the movie Top Secret, which was awesome.
The lightbox thing is interesting, it reminds me a bit of the Dashboard on a Mac; they just need to speed it up a little more. It's a good idea, the switching back and forth problem is one of the annoying things about flickr.
14: Becks, you have an old soul. Or a broad knowledge of pop culture.
we could just abandon it.
What? Abandon it? With that kind of attitude, how is the Unfogged political activism thing ever gonna work? I mean, if you people can't finish the c0cks project...
16 - I loved that movie growing up. I had recorded it off TV and watched it over and over on our Betamax player.
18: Yaabut...you also made the Whip It reference. Did anyone play that song after 1985? I eagerly await the first Alphaville reference.
They were sorta oversized in Nihon or something, right?
oversized s/b supersized.
Obvsly had ape guano on the brain.
I really like the portal tool. It makes linking up similar images very easy.
I saw that Thomas Hawk has an account there. That probably means that it will become a big contender in the online photography world.
It's a bit too slow, though. I'd wait it out, see if Ookles has more features that fit your needs or see if they upgrade their system to make it faster and a bit more user-friendly (the icons are very small and there aren't explanations for what things are on the pages - Zooomrtations, for instance).
Zooomr doesn't seem that much quicker to me, and the spelling annoys me. And the adverts.
The clicking back and forth thing on Flickr - I do know what you mean, but generally I just look at stuff on people's photostreams, and there aren't usually more than one or two photos per page that I want to look at any larger.
A page of Flickr pics seems a bit cleaner, less cluttered to me - e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazportico/page3/ vs http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/thomashawk?page=2
But I'm willing to accept that that's just because it's not what I'm used to.
I guess it depends whether you want to have a huge audience readymade, or whether you want to be supercool and get in on something that's starting out. Looking at the "top 12 people who have uploaded the most photos to Zooomr", there really aren't that many photos on there yet (my partner would go straight in at #2), so it just depends on whether that appeals or not.
I hear that Flickr is Big in Japan...
I joined just to see how different from flickr it is (I have an account at flickr, as well). It doesn't allow for easy blogging. However, the uploads are fast.
Like Flickr, it reads EXIF and XMP so I don't have to re-ad my tags and/or camera info. However, if my tags are phrases (and some are), it doesn't recognize the phrasing that XMP files have so I have to redo them.
It seems like a nice set-up though.
13: Do you know for sure that the photos are of individual c0cks? And not, say, just max's in varying states of enragement?
I just played around with Zoomr for 5 minutes and it left me wanting to throw my laptop out the window. Annoying as hell. And sloooooooow.
27 made me think of the Hulk.
"Cock smash!"
All your ambivalating between services resulted in my setting up a Flickr account this evening without feeling bad at all about not checking out the other options.
The most useful aspect to Flickr: all my friends use it, so I can see all their pictures in one place.
Als, there are so many tremendous photographers there (including that mirror-written scots guy) that after the initial surge of energetic emulation you just give up, and thus don't waste too much time.
I'd e-mail you, J-Mo, but that's not a good way to get in touch, right? Want to be Flickr buddies? † Anybody else?
I'll email you! (Warning: my photos are of the very boring "hey, look! people at a party" kind. SO FAR!)
Thx J-Mo & others! I think I'll make an Unfogged group, so we can all be linked.