Some people are getting all excited about ZOOMR
This is a fabulous new photosharing site which is much much speedier (zoomier) than Flickr.
I think Flickr peeps may be scared, especially as so much stuff from Flickr is duplicated here. And it is multilingual.
But I am not sure that a move away from Flickr would be worth it as I would now want to leave all my lovely new friends behind.
I also cannot see any real interactivity happening on Zoomr yet…. but it is like a school disco I spose … everyone else is wondering who will dance first.
At the moment everyone is still standing round the walls.
I joined to check it out and here is one of my photos … just to be a rebel it is a shot of someone on a recent Sheffield Flickrmeet!!
Flickr meet Hosted on ZooomrMeanwhile ianya tells us all about mediaed.org
Here you can get all sorts of info and resources as well as free video downloads.
For example the one from Bel hooks in New York.
An interesting mix of promo videos (to entice you to buy videos) and pdf downloads, the site offers a mix of takes on media education issues. … so I am not quite so keen on the message in this video here that advertsing is propaganda…
Quite a goldmine anyway for anyone thinking of running an online course soon….
Thanks for the tip off anya!!
Photo-sharing must be hot property at the moment. It seems to me that Riya is the most exciting and I note there are rumours of a Google buy-out. What’s good news is that the interest appears to be pushing back the frontiers of what’s possible.
Comment by Guy — November 8, 2006 @ 5:30 pm
Yes I think maybe people are wanting to have a slice of Flickr success; and let’s hope that somepone thinks up sthing that Flickr hasn’t already done.
Comment by DrJoolz — November 9, 2006 @ 8:09 pm