There are a ton more talented photographers at Flickr or iPernity or SmugMug — simply by virtue of a larger number of users at those sites — except you have to find them first and add them to your contacts. For example, only a casual look through someone else’s contacts at Flickr will yield an amazing number of unrecognized but talented photographers. These are people putting out amazing photographs but they have few views and even fewer comments. I’d love to see them get more recognition.

It was frustrating to see how frustrating it was for Kris and Tom to go through that time and refreshing to see the community come together to support/assist them in that launch timeframe. All the while I wondered how they would be able to complete the launch without proper funding or backend scaling.

I supported them, even getting the word out here in Chicagoland with the Zooomr stickers. I wonder what to make of this. I know they need money and IMO it seems the whole mobile thing and focus on Japan is more about getting some funding. But I still want to know “where’s the beef?” Like you I want to know where those features like Marketplace that I was looking forward to. I don’t mind the Zipline as it builds community, and another way to find some great photos. However, when the bread and butter, the foundation of why people are there, the photographs is not being properly addressed from a technical standpoint and long promised functions are still missing I have to look to the old standby.

I’m holding off on uploading there for a while until the site delivers what it promised so long ago. I really want to see them succeed and hopefully can start uploading there again there soon. I’ll still be watching what does get uploaded as the quality of photography there is 2nd to none.