Comments on: Zooomr and the Case of the Missing Photos http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kristopher Tate http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-12173 Kristopher Tate Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:53:44 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/#comment-12173 Hi Jeff, sorry for the scare like that -- your photos are still available and enjoying Zooomr 2.0. We have not lost ANY photos ever since our launch over 8 months ago. Every tag, photo, and other data element we have ever stored is still alive in our system. Due to a small glitch due to our OpenID login system, it accidentally created a new account. Please feel free to login once more or check-out your photos in their entirety, at the link below: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/8915@Z01 Best and more anon, Kristopher Tate cto & founder -- bluebridge tech / zooomr Hi Jeff, sorry for the scare like that — your photos are still available and enjoying Zooomr 2.0.

We have not lost ANY photos ever since our launch over 8 months ago. Every tag, photo, and other data element we have ever stored is still alive in our system.

Due to a small glitch due to our OpenID login system, it accidentally created a new account.

Please feel free to login once more or check-out your photos in their entirety, at the link below:

http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/8915@Z01

Best and more anon,

Kristopher Tate
cto & founder — bluebridge tech / zooomr

]]> By: Thomas Hawk http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-12138 Thomas Hawk Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:24:19 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/#comment-12138 Hi Jeff. Just saw this now. I'll investigate and get back to you as soon as I can. Hi Jeff. Just saw this now. I’ll investigate and get back to you as soon as I can.

]]> By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-12056 Jeff Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:36:12 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/#comment-12056 Hi Kevin, It's been ages, hope you and Julia are well (and new baby if I recall correctly). Switching costs are low in some respects, mostly from the standpoint of uploading photos to a new site. However, from the metadata standpoint the switching costs are high. If you consider the instrinsic value of Flickr, as an example, it is not the actual photo content but the tag data that has been accumulated. In addition to the metadata, these sites are intrinsically social in nature so the comments and community that you build around your photo library is also of value. To the degree that you are linking to photos in other services (e.g. blogs) would also create stickiness. I don't keep my master archive of photos in any service, I keep them in iPhoto which means it's probably easier for me to switch services than someone who has archived everything in Shutterfly or Kodak's service. Bubbleshare is interesting because of the voice annotation. I really like Phanfare even though it costs a few bucks a month. Hi Kevin,
It’s been ages, hope you and Julia are well (and new baby if I recall correctly).

Switching costs are low in some respects, mostly from the standpoint of uploading photos to a new site. However, from the metadata standpoint the switching costs are high. If you consider the instrinsic value of Flickr, as an example, it is not the actual photo content but the tag data that has been accumulated. In addition to the metadata, these sites are intrinsically social in nature so the comments and community that you build around your photo library is also of value. To the degree that you are linking to photos in other services (e.g. blogs) would also create stickiness.

I don’t keep my master archive of photos in any service, I keep them in iPhoto which means it’s probably easier for me to switch services than someone who has archived everything in Shutterfly or Kodak’s service.

Bubbleshare is interesting because of the voice annotation. I really like Phanfare even though it costs a few bucks a month.

]]> By: Kevin McDonald http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-12047 Kevin McDonald Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:05:51 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/#comment-12047 Sorry to hear about your loss. How great of a loss was it? i.e. how high are the consumer's switching costs in the photo sharing space? I've seen quite a few new photo sharing sites with various differentiators popping up lately (Zooomer and BubbleShare being two). My wife (you may recall how stuborn she is) wont even give these sites a look as she "uses" Shutterfly. Uses equals years of pics 'archived' and a complete address book for sharing them. How much room is there in the photo sharing space? Would you crystal ball this one for us?? Sorry to hear about your loss. How great of a loss was it? i.e. how high are the consumer’s switching costs in the photo sharing space?

I’ve seen quite a few new photo sharing sites with various differentiators popping up lately (Zooomer and BubbleShare being two). My wife (you may recall how stuborn she is) wont even give these sites a look as she “uses” Shutterfly. Uses equals years of pics ‘archived’ and a complete address book for sharing them.

How much room is there in the photo sharing space? Would you crystal ball this one for us??

]]> By: My Weblog » links for 2006-07-21 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-11962 My Weblog » links for 2006-07-21 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:19:18 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/#comment-11962 [...] Venture Chronicles (tags: zooomr web20 beta photos) [...] [...] Venture Chronicles (tags: zooomr web20 beta photos) [...]

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-11834 Dennis Howlett Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:35:57 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/#comment-11834 Jeff - you got it wrong methinks...you've been downgraded as part of the upgrade process. Jeff – you got it wrong methinks…you’ve been downgraded as part of the upgrade process.

]]> By: Randy Charles Morin http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-11826 Randy Charles Morin Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:20:35 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/07/20/zooomr-and-the-case-of-the-missing-photos/#comment-11826 Good old unreliable Web 2.0 beta software. Good old unreliable Web 2.0 beta software.

]]>