Serious props to Thomas Hawk, lead Zooomr Evangelist, for his well thought out post regarding Flickr’s new geotagging facilities. Especially since Zooomr is pretty clearly a competitor and that the geotagging was one (but just one) of their distinguishing features!

The updates from others at Yahoo and Flickr and the comment thread are interesting as well. Sometimes it’s easy to take this kind of open communication for granted when, in reality, it is a relatively rare and precious thing.

Zooomr looks a lot like flickr, though without the potentially quite annoying NIPSA-ing of accounts that have too many “non-photo” images (screenshots, drawings, comics, etc).

And for a limited time bloggers can get a free Pro account just for hosting an image on their blog, like this:

What better way to try it out?