A Flickr Alternative - Zooomr

This post is to introduce you to one of the best sites on the internet that nobody has heard about. You’ve all heard of Flickr, the wildly popular photo sharing website. What you probably haven’t heard of is Zooomr, another photo sharing site that has been referred to by many as “Flickr on steriods”. My favorite additional feature is the ability to tag people in photos “Facebook-style”. Zooomr also even provides a function to view all photos of a person.

Below is just a sample of what a photo hosted from Zooomr looks like, and you can completely customize the HTML to display as much or as little extra information as you like. You can even remove the “Hosted on Zooomr” message.

Hosted on Zooomr

An exclusive feature to Zooomr is it’s “trackback” tool. Everyone is used to trackbacks on blogs, and now Zooomr brings them to photos. Whenever anyone on the web links to a photo you host on Zooomr, a comment with the referring URL will automatically be recorded on Zooomr.

Zooomr is also superior to Flickr because they don’t try to force you into buying their “Pro” account by severely limiting the features on the free account. While Flickr’s free account only allows a 20MB/month upload limit, Zooomr’s free account allows 100MB/month. Flickr’s Pro account costs $24.95/year, allows 2GB/month of uploads, and is required to make high resolution versions of your photos available. Zooomr allows even it’s free accounts to serve full resolution images across the web, and makes its Pro account, with 4GB/month of bandwidth, available for free to bloggers.

Zooomr also offers the standard features you expect from a photo sharing site: Full RSS 2.0 feeds of your recent photos, as well as any search term. Localization in 15 languages. Geotagging with Google Maps. Photo Comments. Online zooming and rotating. And of course Tagging.

I hope you’ll give Zooomr a try, and see why it’s being referred to as “Flickr on steriods”.

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