12:14 AM

I think my little spat with Zooomr is over. She’s behaving nicely again and we’re uploading sweet, sweet photos again.

I have some complaints, of course.

• Geotagging is ardous. I type in an address into the “jump to” box and it doesn’t work. This may be Safari’s fault, but still; this isn’t 2000 and we’re fighting to get sites to work with Mozilla.

• Also, whenever I click on a point on the geotagging map (to center, and then manually zoom), it asks if that’s where I want to tag it. No, I want to center! Cancel! Cancel! Sigh. Geotagging is cool (mostly because of the photos nearby) but it’s a pain in the ass with the current interface.

• It occurs to me that there could be tools within the LightMap that would make this easier. If they’re there, I’ve missed them, which means the UI is not so good. There are a lot of elements of the UI that are so minimalist I have trouble with it, like all the little icons that appear when you hover over photos. A guide would help.

• Changing privacy settings once a photo is uploaded. I like changing my mind. I like uploading a batch and choosing the public ones later. I like being able to see the privacy status of each photo. These are simple things.

• Some of the AJAX is wonky, especially in the photo view. Does AJAX work differently across different browsers? I have no clue.

• Two words: Desktop. uploader. Please.

At the same time, I think I’m starting to like Zooomr. Maybe even better than Flickr… I certainly like the more open terms and conditions better.