Since I’ve always had my own website (and at a time my own server in my basement) to host files/pictures and stuff like that one, I never got into the free file hosting stuff. I gave
DeviantART a try, but honestly the community was terrible, a bunch of 15-year old kids running around telling everyone they suck and they should just kill themselves. It was a really terrible experience. Anyways…. The newer picture hosting sites biggest draw to me was their communities, they seem to be much better and more mature with the purpose to be share photos and stories instead of arguing over who’s better then each other.
First the introductions.
Now there is this Flickr site that has been around for a long while, and it seems like all the cool people are using it, even the cool people that have their own web site, or even design web sites for a living. So I figure maybe I can be cool too, so I’m giving it a try.
There is also Zooomr (why everything has to have an ‘r’ at the end is beyond me) that is an answer to Flickr that also includes maps to set a location for the picture as well. I don’t know that the ‘cool’ people are using it, but I think the ‘geeks’ are. I wanna be cool, but I used to be a geek too (still recovering — I have my tendencies that will never go away) so I’ll give that a try as well.
Lastly, Riya. It doesn’t end with an ‘r’, I like it already. It seems to have face recognition technology or something like that.
So I uploaded one picture to each of these sites (well, not exactly, we’ll get to that in a second). Here’s what I know about the sites so far. With Flickr you can upload either through the web site or with software (in-house or 3rd party). With Zooomr you have to use the website, but you can do multiple uploads at once. With Riya, you have to use the software… and the software doesn’t work. It just sat there scanning for files to upload but not doing anything other then consuming 100% of my processor time and heating up my computer big time even though I set it to upload from a folder that had only one picture in it. So Riya is already disqualified.
As for the pictures, here they are:
First from Flickr
And then from Zooomr
DSC_0809 Hosted on
ZooomrAll I had to do to get the image on my blog with both services was copy and text the code they prepared, pretty simple.
So at the end of my highly unscientific test, I have to say good job to Flickr and keep working at it to Zooomr (software based uploading would be appreciated). But then again, Flickr is the original, has been around a long time, and is owned by Yahoo, where as Zooomr is a beta, privately done, and built by a genius 17-year old.
I really can’t say too much about either of these sites because I just put one simple picture up, so I’ll have to keep playing around and see which one I think is really better. I also hope to hear from anyone who uses either of these and knows something more about them then I to help me make a decision on which is best to use in order to achieve my goal of being cool.
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