Comments on: Why I love Web 2.0 – episode 1,015

By: Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:05:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Dan. That’s a good point — and one I think Thomas Hawk has also made (and Rehan too, above). Once you get to be the size Flickr is, it’s a lot harder to be as adaptable — which makes it all the more important to get it right before you start to “scale.”

Mathew

By: Dan100

Dan100 — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:56:06 +0000

But you hint at why Flickr can’t develop as fast as Zooomr – its’ traffic. When Flickr was as small as Zooomr is now, it could develop just as quickly. And when (if) Zooomr grows as large as Flickr, it will have the same constraints in rolling out new features.

Let’s just hope Kris gets Zooomr sorted before it gets to big – and for sure, there’s plenty that needs doing. Try viewing Zooomr in IE6, for example…

By: Mathew

Mathew — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:23:47 +0000

And thanks, Rehan. Good points — and a typo :-) Sorry for not posting your comment before, but it got snagged by my spam filter.

Mathew

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:52:47 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Albert. That you and Kris know each other and can have that kind of respect for each other, and support each other even while competing, is in itself is a great testament to Web 2.0 — and you are absolutely right about Flickr. They definitely should get all kinds of credit for blazing trails.

Mathew

By: Albert Lai

Albert Lai — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 02:42:20 +0000

For what its worth, I think Kris is amazing. I met him on various occasions, and I’m proud to say that I even had the opportunity to “sponsored” him to go to a couple of events (well, I sponsored one, and drove him to another since he didn’t own a car, and I had my rental).

Kris is arguably one of the most amazing people I’ve met (and umm.. i guess that’s actually means since its been well blogged now that I had lunch with BillG). You only THINK he’s amazing because people have read about him. I met him. He is better than amazing. =)

However, what is important to point out is that while Zooomr has way more cool stuff than flickr in many ways, its important to note that Flickr had to pioneer a lof of the ground work that we take for granted. That’s not to say that’s its not amazing for Kris to pull of all that he has, regardless of age and resource. I want to make sure credit is given to the amazingly creative Flickr team that trail blazed a lot of the concepts we take for granted today.

Its my hope that we’ll keep learning from each other’s ideas (I have Kris on my IM list) and keeping each other on our respective toes. Its great to see all the competition and innovation. But at the end of the day, the â€œrivalryâ€ I think is a healthy one — and I for one look forward to Kris’s further innovations. Kris is a great testament of how great software can be built by ONE person, and the benefit of “zero overhead” software development.