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17 Year Old Creates Flickr Competitor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the any-kid-in-a-garage dept.

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."

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  1. So? by Gunnery+Sgt.+Hartman · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:So? by autOmato · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

    2. Re:So? by FrostyWheaton · · Score: 2, Funny
      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

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  2. One important difference: by merreborn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flikr can handle a slashdotting.

  3. But is it... by tajgenie · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  4. Re:Anything is possible when you turn off the TV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I really don't think I was special...

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

  5. Re:Anything is possible when you turn off the TV by Neoprofin · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  6. Mitch by Nycto · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  7. Re:Are YOU making a contribution? by Furmy · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    uhhh...down?

  8. pr0n by xixax · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  9. Re:Are YOU making a contribution? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  10. Re:But Flickr is hackable by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    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'. Holy crap, how times have changed!

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  11. Hopefully Not This... by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  12. Recipe for success by hritcu · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

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  13. Userid of nearly a million... by mahju · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  14. Re:i18n is cool, but easy by multipartmixed · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  15. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    " 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.

  16. Re:Competition is nice, but . . . by dubl-u · · Score: 2, Funny

    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?

  17. Re:Anything is possible when you turn off the TV by Doctor+Faustus · · Score: 2, Funny

    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...