17 Year Old Creates Flickr Competitor

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch has an article up on a new Flickr competitor called Zooomr. The interesting thing about all of this that it was developed in only three months by a 17 year old and to top it all off, the site is currently localized in 16 languages."

So?

[Gunnery Sgt. Hartman]

When I was 17 I was...umm......creating a hotmail account. So there!

One important difference:

[merreborn]

Flikr can handle a slashdotting.

But is it...

[tajgenie]

But is it open source? I think not! Future Bill Gates who will one day terrorize the world!!

Re:Anything is possible when you turn off the TV

[Anonymous Coward]

I really don't think I was special...

If it helps, I don't think you're special either.

Re:Anything is possible when you turn off the TV

[Neoprofin]

Out of curiousity how did you get around child labor laws to work as a nonagricultural worker at 14?

Mitch

[Nycto]

At the risk of straying completely off topic, this guy looks strikingly like Mitch Hedberg.

That is all I have to add to this conversation. Carry on.

Re:Are YOU making a contribution?

[Furmy]

building 7 fell in exactly the same exactly symmetrical way as WTC 1 and 2

uhhh...down?

pr0n

[xixax]

And you mustn't upload NC rated pics because the SysAdmin is 17.

Re:Are YOU making a contribution?

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy shit. Nice non sequitur there! Got ADD much? :-)

Re:But Flickr is hackable

[theshowmecanuck]

When I was ten, to reboot the computer you held it upside down over your head and shook it. Oh wait, that was 'Etch-a-Sketch' [etch-a-sketch.com]. Holy crap, how times have changed!

Hopefully Not This...

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Hopefully we will not soon see him sprawled out in a Tiger Beat photo spread [gizmodo.com]...

Recipe for success

[hritcu]

1. Create a lame clone of a well known web site ... let's say Flikr 2. Fill it up with Google adds 3. Anonymously submit a story on Slashdot saying that the new site is a Flikr KILLER 4. Profit

Userid of nearly a million...

[mahju]

... yup that pretty much confirms he's only 17.

Re:So?

[autOmato]

When I was 17 I was...umm......creating a hotmail account. So there!

When I was 17, it was a very good year. It was a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights. We'd hide from the lights. On the village green. When I was 17.

Re:i18n is cool, but easy

[multipartmixed]

You know, that explains a lot about RSS 1.0...

Re:Good

[Anonymous Coward]

" Now more people understand that age doesn't matter."
thats what I've been telling the cops everytime they find me with the fourteen year old next door.

Re:Competition is nice, but . . .

[dubl-u]

Just because someone shows you a drivers license, you don't trust them with your house keys, do you?

What? The TSA guy at the airport told me that it was proof that I wasn't a terrorist. Why else would I need it to get on a plane?

Re:So?

[FrostyWheaton]

When I was seventeen, I drank some very good beer
I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was seventeen

Re:Anything is possible when you turn off the TV

[Doctor Faustus]

I'm married, and thusly implications about my having sex could probably go either way

I'm married, 29, and have an eight-year-old son, so I can prove I was having sex at 20! And also that sex the day after her period ends isn't as safe as you think...