YuviSense: Codin Kid

I use Zooomr to host my photos(RSS), and am absolutely lovin it. But then, there are certainly room for loadsa improvement, and here are ten of them. Hey Kris, hopefully, all these are implemented in Mark III and that comes out fast.

So, here’s what I hope gets fixed in Zooomr:

1. Login and Authentication. OpenID is just too much for the normal guy. I couldn’t get any of my friends to signup, since it was a bit too complicated for them. They were used to an username/password combo, and the OpenID system just confuses them.
2. Licences. Right now, I have to view every photo individually and assign a licence to them, which sucks. Thomas says that it’ll be fixed in Mark III, so I’m waiting…
3. Easier Commenting. Quite a bit of my friends saw my photos, but none were able to comment, since they were not able to signup.
4. Speed. It’s pretty darn slow right now, and another reason to wait for Mark III.
5. Easier Posting to Blog. Right now, it takes me some 3 clicks to get HTML to post my photos on my blog, which sucks.
6. Ajax on displayed photos. I would like the same amount of AJAXy goodness that populates the Zooomr photo pages(LightBox, LightMap, Fave, etc) on my blog. That would rock.
7. Autoissual of API keys. Right now, I can’t post directly to Zooomr from the awesome Windows Live Writer, simply because a dev couldn’t get an API Key.
8. Custom Sets. Right now, SmartSets suck most of the time.
9. Forums, Groups and more community features. For example, If the Login issues get fixed, then I know a lot of people who would join a “St. Mary’s Community” for all the photos taken at my School. With the number of students with Digital Cameras growing, this turns essential. And, I certainly would join a “I love my PowerShot S3″ community:D
10. Site Colors. Can you figure out what’s the text here? I certainly can’t, and last time I checked, I ain’t colorblind.

And, still, Zooomr rocks. See the friggin cool way they’re marketing: Thomas showed me some linkluv both from his blog and the official Zooomr blog. Do you think I’ll dare to switch anytime?:D (No, it’s not the reason I’m staying with Zooomr). Thanks Thomas, Thanks Kristopher.

In other news, I’m working on the Engadget vs Gizmodo analysis, and the Engadget Scrapr is almost complete now. But, multithreaded programming is quite a headache, so I’m still trying to iron out some bugs, and Gizmodo looks to be more easily Scrappable than Engadget, so hopefully, I’ll be able to publish it before the end of next week. I could’ve finished this much earlier, but I am actually abandoning all of the code which analysed Scoble’s blog, and starting from scratch to build a more reusable, well architected tool, so it’s takin a bit longer. Sorry about that.