Zoomorama Blog

Launch in Beta of Zoomorama.com and ZoomCreator

We are proud to announce the Beta version launch of the Zoomorama Web site and ZoomCreator Authoring tool.

The new web site will allow you to better manage your zoomoramas, and to share with the community your creations. Users can subscribe to your page to be alerted by email of any new zoomorama, you can subscribe yourself to a profile, select your favorite profile or zoomorama, send zoomomails to other members, etc...

As for ZoomCreator we have redesigned it and made it even more functional. You can now import your pictures from Flickr directly, align images automatically, rotate videos as easily as pictures, and as always update your zoomorama online with differential updates. You can now also place links inside the page (in the Text box menu you will find the link tool).

Soon we will offer premium account that will enable you to upload your videos directly to zoomorama without having to place them on YouTube. Premium account will also have no limits on the size of each zoomorama, as well as 5Gb of storage instead of 2Gb for free account.

We hope to see you on www.Zoomorama.com soon. Let us know what you think of the new design.

Download ZoomCreator HERE

 

Customer Feedback - e-Commerce

Using Zooming to understand Death and Taxes is what Jess Bachman did with an extraordinary poster detailing graphically the US government budget. Never before have I delved into the intricacies of government budgeting with any pleasure, but here I did it with glee. See where you tax money goes thanks to Jess, and to Zooming.

See his page with an embedded zoomorama of his poster here: http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

Here what Jess has to say about Zoomorama for his web site:

Franklin,

Thanks for the updated code, I think my web guy just missed a section of it or something.  It looks as it is intended now. I really do like Zoomoroma and plan to use it for all my other products and blog entries.  DeepZoom is great from a performance aspect but it requires SilverLight 2 Beta and for someone of my limited coding capabilities I am reduced to using the simple and standard photozoom uploaded which allows one image per "DeepZoom".  I am glad you guys chose to put a lot of focus on the client side development and broad it down to a novice level.  Even Zoomify required some annoying flash importing/exporting.  You guys have done a great job. 

Cheers,
Jess

RED HERRING WINNER, and Conference Links

We are proud to be selected among the top 100 most promising start up in Europe by Red Herring magazine. Here in Malta we will present Zoomorama to a prestigious assembly of other entrepreneurs and top-tier VCs.

Here are the links to my presentation showcase: (Reference for Network Speed: GoogleMaps)

1) Zoomorama Logo with Baby Pictures

2) Party Pictures with Video

3) Paris Match Magazine Underwater Photography 

4) Classified Advertising

5) Vuitton Wallets E_Catalogue

6) Advertising Integration in Editorial Content

7) Van Gogh Painting Collection

Here is a picture of me receiving the award from Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring. The conference was really wonderful. We met a lot of dynamic and promising entrepreneurs, and good VC people. Access was easy, and Malta was more beautiful than expected (see here the zoomorama)

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Paris-Match Magazine's beautiful Underwater Photography

Paris Match published this morning, Thursday, a beautiful zoomorama of underwater photography. In the magazine the article is 12 pages. It relates the research of a French scientist studying the impact of global warming on the coral reef of New Caledonia.

Read the article here: http://www.parismatch.com/parismatch/dans-l-oeil-de-match/reportages/recifs-coralliens

See the zoomorama below

Zoomorama is Red Herring 100 Europe Finalist

Zoomorama is honored to be selected one of the 200 finalists for the prestigious Red Herring 100 Europe 2008. The final announcement will be done from Malta on April 14th 2008. Stay tuned !

Red Herring is THE magazine of the high-tech community in the US. Every year they select the 100 most promising companies from the US, Europe, and Asia. Past winners were Google, eBay, Skype, YouTube, and DailyMotion.

The Zoomorama Team is working hard to be worthy of this honor and of your patronage. We will soon announce our new web site, with more sharing functionalities, as well as our new ZoomCreator authoring tool. That will be for another post (soon).

Thank you for using Zoomorama ! Cross your fingers for us to be winner in Malta on the 14th.