Comments on: Zoto: Watching Things Fall Apart

By: dp

dp — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:54:25 +0000

Thanks for adding your comments.
I’ve had my own similar experiences since I wrote this piece.

Given that it’s been 14 months since I wrote this, I think it’s fair to say that Zoto is a floating wreck. I suppose it’s still taking money, while providing only an as-found service.

Given the utter lack of support, I had to chuckle at Kord’s complaint that someone has cybersquatted the name Zoto on Twitter.

By: Melspy

Melspy — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:33:11 +0000

i’m also long time user, and just started experiencing problems w/ uploading… days after renewing for paid service. i changed my password, and the uploader never worked again, no replies from clint or kordless. curious to know the “new” projects kordless is working on, would like to give a shout out to unsuspecting investors willing to invest monetarily or intellectually.

By: Rag! : 23 geotagging

Rag! : 23 geotagging — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:13:57 +0000

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By: dp

dp — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:38:22 +0000

That’s not an issue. It doesn’t matter if they get lost. I have duplicates on local drives and CD. Unlike a lot of people, I don’t upload the originals. So Zoto could fry and it would only affect the websites where I have posted linked photos. And that’s gonna be an issue with any commercial hosting service.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:56:23 +0000

Yikes, doesn’t sound like a very promising situation. If you have photos on there, better get them off soon to avoid risk of losing them—try using the importing feature at pixamo.com instead of downloading every photo manually.