Remade Zooomr to permit photo sales
The Zooomr photo-sharing site went offline Tuesday for an overhaul that will let members sell their work, offer unlimited storage and unlimited file sizes, and add a programming interface to permit software to interact with the site.
The upgrade to "Zooomr Mark III" began Tuesday and should be done Thursday, said programmer Kristopher Tate. A programming interface, which can automate actions such image searching, retrieval or incorporation into a Web site, is an important feature of Flickr, Yahoo's popular photo-sharing site.
Selling photos online is a hot area. Getty Images, a dominant supplier of photos to newspapers, advertisers and others who have need for news photos or stock photos, acquired iStockphoto in 2006 and Scoopt this year.
Scoopt splits photo revenue 50-50 with the members who supply photos. iStockphoto keeps 80 percent of revenue. Zooomr will keep only 10 percent, Tate said, passing the rest to the member who sold the picture.
Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank. 
