We have been quite for a few months while we were rewriting our code to take full advantage of the possibilities offered by Action Script 3.
Today we have published our first version of this new viewer, and we would love your feedback to debbug it and improve it.
What's new:
- click on an image to view in full page
- New menus to go to the next image, or go to the next page. Return to the top is there too.
- New video player with simpler controls, and as always rotation of the video
- Smoother zoom and de-zoom, smoother pan too
- Clean text on which we can zoom beautifully
- As always, easy integration into your web site or blog with the embed code. See below.
Winners from the MOOD.fr "MY FASHION" contest have been announced. Some truly creative and stylish zoomoramas were created by MOOD.fr readers. We invite you to view them full screen for enjoyment.
Winners are:
See all the zoomoramasby clicking here.
Bravo à toutes les gagnantes, et merci à SONY pour les très beaux prix.
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Lumiere Technolgy, the Paris based art certification company, certifies that the flee-market discovered painting is in fact an original Leornardo da Vinci ! This would be the most important art discovery of the last fifty years. Lumiere Technology compared the painting nick-named "Profile" to the Mona Lisa and the Lady with an Ermine and found the type of paint used to be the same. Combined with Carbone 14 dating the Lumiere Technology analysis appears to confirm that this is a true discovery of great magnitude.
See here the Paris Match story: Paris_Match_Article_Leonardo_da_Vinci_Profile
See here for the Lumiere Technology Web Site.
Today we released our latest upgrade of ZoomCreator, version 0.8.1.2 in Beta.
In this version you will find:
- New Menu button to insert a web link on a text or an image.
- URL in upload manager now directly links to your profile on the Zoomorama.com site. If you want to send the URL of the zoomorama on its own then click on "send by email" button in ZoomCreator's upload manager. For example, zoomorama in my profile page URL is www.zoomorama.com/john/"a long number" , whereas the URL to view the zoomorama directly is www.zoomorama.com/"a long number".
- Allows "import" of a scene from another album when in Zoom mode, not just Edit mode.
- Bug fixing for the "preview" (F7) mode that enables full screen view of your zoomorama from ZoomCreator.
- Bug fixing for "Album" menu. Some items were not displayed under certain configuration
- Reduced size "publish" window for low resolution screen. We had a problem for lower than 1024x800 resolution.
Some major improvements will be coming our way in September: personal videos, PDF insertion, and a better visualization experience. Send us your feedback and feature request.
Zoomorama was featured on the prestigious BFM radio show "l'Atelier Numérique" which goes live every weekend. It's a two hour show about the latest trends in technology and tech business.
Here is the file of the 12 minutes that features Zoomorama. Warning: it's in French.
Download the Podcast here: PODCAST OF ZOOMORAMA ON BFM
We are happy to confirm that we finalized a new fundraising of €1M. The financing was provided by European and American business angels.
We are going to further develop the ease of use and versatility of our ZoomCreator application, create new BtoC products, and expand our server footprint with presence in the US, Vietnam, Japan, Russia, and Brazil.
Thank you for all the investors that believe in the potential of zooming to change the experience of the web from personal photography albums to e-commerce ! You are great !