Salute to our Enemy: Zooomr
The main blogger, Yuko, is going to fly to U.S. and take 2 weeks off, so I will post on behalf of her. I am not native to English like Yuko, so I would like to ask you in advance to allow my grammar mistakes, strange expression, etc.
I found a cool photo sharing service besides Flickr. The name is Zooomr.
The interface is similar to Flickr, but some functions are greater than Flickr. If you have a Google account like me, the registration process is very easy. It seems that you can place photos on the map. (However, I couldn't find out how to do that in a short period. If I took more time on looking through help, etc. probably I could have found.)
What I surprised is that it has been already provided in 15 languages including Japanese. I tried the Japanese interface and found that the Japanese used in the site is very funny(Sorry, no offense), but realized that it is because it should be translated by the 17 years old developer, Kristopher Tate, himself. It seems that he is learning Japanese. His blog has "Japanese" category.
Now, talking about PhotoZou, it provides Japanese and English. 2 vs 15, OK we loose in the number of language, but I am sure our Japanese quality is better than that of Zooomr. Again no offense. It is just a matter of time and cost. I am sure that my English is similar to the Japanese used in Zoomr.
PhotoZou has a built-in mash up funtion with Google Map, that is similar to able-to-place-photo-on-map function of Zooomr.
In old days in Japan, Samurai warriors kept courtesy to even their enemies. So I would like to express my salute to our possible-competitor, Zooomr by posting this entry.
