LAist: Ask the MACist - Sharing Your Photos Online

smugmug user

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:24:38 -0800

A few negatives for smugmug: -The keywording feature gets disabled when you make a gallery private (private galleries keeps google and other search engines from indexing your photos). -You can't search via keywords your own private galleries. -You have no control of the robots meta tag. -You have to know html/css programming to customize your galleries outside of the skins they offer. It's a long drawn out process just to add a menu bar or banner. -For pro photographers, you can't add custom products that smumug doesn't offer to sell for self fulfillment (like gallery wraps, panaramas or any other product that smugmug doesn't sell.

Thomas Hawk

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:56:40 -0800

Hey Chris, thanks for mentioning Zooomr. We will be offering a simplified "Old Skool" style email/pw log on in March with our launch of Mark III, our next major release of Zooomr. Hopefully this will make it easier for people who want to log in without using an OpenID credential. We are definitely still a little rough but are working hard to get Zooomr to be the best that it can be with our Mark III release. In addition to many new social sharing features we've fixed a lot of the bugs that people have experienced in the past. Right now we're just two guys, Kristopher and myself, with a big heart for photography, but we've got a great and growing vibrant community of photographers. Thanks again for posting about us. Thomas Hawk CEO, Zooomr

darleene

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:44:18 -0800

Do you have an opinion about Picasa, which is apparently now part of Google?

Jacob Jay

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:28:28 -0800

Nice summary Chris, I'd just like to mention the application we develop as it makes uploading to many of these sites a bunch easier: PictureSync.

Peter

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:27:06 -0800

Okay. I'm going to start by being the incredibly anal-retentive Mac Cultist. It should be Mac-ist. It probably shouldn't be Macist (Does it rhyme with 'racist'?) It definitely shouldn't be MACist. I'm a long time Mac user/developer (My first Mac was a Macintosh) and I've always used the capitalization of MAC to spot the completely clueless--"It's like IBM, right?" Needless to say, you get it right in your prose. But I'd suggest a hyphen rather than capitalization. After all, you don't want people asking you about 802.11 packet frame boundaries, do you? :^)