ZangZing - Web photo hosting

[Chris Dodkin]

With my current hosting service at MobileMe going away in June 2012, when Apple move to iCloud and kill their image hosting service, I needed to find an alternative place to post and share my images.

ZangZing is a new service, based out of San Francisco, that offer (currently) free hosting of unlimited numbers of images online - with easy uploading from PC and Mac, and also bulk importing from other online image hosting websites.

Photo Sharing - ZangZing Group Albums

I've been giving it a try for the last few weeks, and working with ZangZing founder member Joseph Ansanelli to help develop some of the bulk-import tools to get all of my images transferred over.

Joseph @ ZangZing

The ZangZing team are all passionate photographers, and are building out a really nice hosting enviroment, built on Amazon's virtual server clusters.

Photo Sharing - ZangZing Team

We started ZangZing to make it easy to share the photos that you care most about.

We know it’s not going to happen overnight, but step by step we plan to redesign photo sharing.

To start, we think photo sharing should be about adding photos from anywhere, group photo sharing, sharing how you want, and keeping it simple and beautiful.

Well, it works very nicely - uploading is easy, and image quality looks excellent.

The URLs for images can be pasted into forums like this, between the image tags, and the images pop up as you'd expect/hope.

As below:

You can auto link to Twitter/Facebook/Email etc - and build groups around each album, controlling access and providing updates when you upload new images.

More details here: Photo Sharing - About ZangZing

So far, I'm very impressed - I've ported all my MobileMe folders in one go, and I'm looking forward to the iPhoto plug-in they're working on for 2012.

 

[Brian Moore]

Thanks Chris,...I've taken a ton of dance photos this past month or so and my intent is to create an album for the parents and kids to access discretely via a link I provide. My choice was going to be Picassa Web Albums. Would you recommend ZangZing instead?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Brian, seems to work very nicely - and you can control access for each album you create.Definitely a recommendation from me.Let me know how you get on - they're interested in user feedback and ideas at this point as they build-out the service.

 

[Brian Moore]

I'll have a read through their site and probably register. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks, Chris.

 

[Brian Moore]

By the way, nice SD shot. From where did you take it?

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Thanks Brian - took it from the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery on Point Loma - you get a great view back to SD.

That shot is full frame with the 5D2 and 600 f4L

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[Brian Moore]

Thanks, Chris. I knew that lens must be REALLY long. I think I can nearly see Julian up in the mountains.

 

[Ralph Thornton]

Thanks Chris I'll give Zing Zang a look.
Oops. I mean ZangZing!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I know, I keep saying Zing Zang!

I'll just call it ZZ for short

 

[Pete Askew]

So, you reckon that ZZ could be tops then do you?!!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I'll get your coat!