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- vince1731, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Whatever, it's not like zooomr can qualify as some sort of competition against flickr.
Zooomr is a complete hack job site with generic lightbox and prototype scripts. They've even copied word-for-word and feature-for-feature almost everything that they have from other sites, without changing them in the least.
You're not looking at an alternative social photo sharing website - you're looking at a bad knockoff a la Steven Seagal Energy Drink. - dustko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4...where the majority of diggers sided with Flickr. Why the change of heart? Maybe we'll see some map integration into Flickr soon.
Here's the full post for those who couldn't be bothered clicking the link:
"Re API keys for direct competitors: this is something that we've never had any set policy on and this thread has sparked a lot of internal debate on the team: some people felt that it was unreasonable, some people felt like it didn't matter since Flickr should win on the basis of being the best thing out there.
I actually had a change of heart and was convinced by Eric's position that we definitely should approve requests from direct competitors as long as they do the same. That means (a) that they need to have a full and complete API and (b) be willing to give us access.
The reasoning here is partly just that "fair's fair' and more subtly, like a GPL license, it enforces user freedom down the chain. I think we'll take this approach (still discussing it internally)." - msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This is in response to the following post: http://digg.com/technology/Why_is_Flickr_Afraid_of_Zooomr_
Claiming that Yahoo is afraid of competition and is withholding the API Keys to keep the competition down. - Piscinero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1According to Stewart Butterfield commenting on the original post in Techcrunch this is not in response to that previous post but it was posted before:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/06/16/why-is-flickr-afraid-of-zoomr/#comment-74731
Apparently he changed his mind from the discussion going on in Flickr. Also, this doesn't seem to be definitive, Zoomr still has to provide Flickr with their own APIs which it hasn't happened. - JurneyAhed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just had a look at the zooomr site, and holy crap, it IS a straight rip-off - especially the 'learn more' pages. They copied the idea, design AND the text? Oh yeah, and the whole 'zooomr' part.
How thick can you get? - CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2lol. So true. What is the big deal about prototype anyway. It's like people never heard of making themselves a library of reusable code... IBM is putting a lot of weight into Dojo, I'm more interested in seeing where that goes. I just want them to break apart the libs so you can get the pure JS seperate from the widgets...
- CaughtThinking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This will be an interesting development.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ditto
its amazing how people can come up with neat uses for (web)applications once their API is released
and even when sometimes it isnt released people can still do amazing things (msgplus) - psylence, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Ths s grt nws!
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