Things you might not know about Zootool Part 2
When I need to describe Zootool, I most often say something like: “Zootool is about bookmarking images, videos, documents and links from all over the web”.
Today I want to lead you into the dark chambers of our content detection engine and tell you some more about, what you really can bookmark with Zootool.
Images
Our goal is not only to make it possible, to bookmark all kinds of image files from websites, but build smart detection for images from photo- and file-sharing sites. URLs of images from Flickr, Dribbble, FFFFOUND, CloudApp, Instagram and Twitpic, will automatically be detected and we gather tag suggestions, the correct title and the biggest possible thumbnail from their APIs for you.
See how an image looks inside the Zoo ›
Videos
Zootool can bookmark billions of videos from more than 30 video sites like Youtube, Vimeo, Blip, Flickr, Twitvid and many more (the full list will soon be available in our FAQ section).
When you bookmark a video from one of those sites, the video will automatically be embedded in your Zoo and you can play it there anytime. We also gather tags, the title and the best possible thumbnail from their APIs.
See how a video looks inside the Zoo ›
Documents
PDFs, word documents, text-, css- or javascript-files – they all are bookmarkable with Zootool and we try to provide the coolest possible preview for those. We use the Google Docs Preview to show PDFs in your Zoo for example or have a custom preview for css and javascript.
You can also bookmark presentations from Slideshare or documents from Scribd and Docstoc, which will be embedded right in your Zoo. You can even bookmark Wikipedia articles and we have a nice custom viewer for them as well.
See how a Slideshare presentation looks inside the Zoo ›
See how a Wikipedia article looks inside the Zoo ›
See how a PDF looks inside the Zoo ›
Websites
We can’t support every site and type of content – yet :) and so it will always be possible to save a simple bookmark to a plain old website or whatever you find and which is not recognized by Zootool. We do our best to provide as much information about those sites as well. We try to find the proper title, gather tag suggestions and automatically generate a screenshot of that site, so you will find it easier next time.
See how a Website looks inside the Zoo ›
Feeds
There are hundreds of awesome RSS-readers out there and Zootool does not want to replace them at all, but sometimes you need to bookmark a RSS-feed without adding it to your precious every-day-feed-collection – that’s where Zootool comes in handy. Whenever you bookmark a RSS-feed with Zootool it will be added to your Zoo with a stripped down viewer. So you will be able to read that feed without adding it to your feed reader.
See how a RSS-feed looks inside the Zoo ›
Help us make it better
We are always trying to make our content detection engine smarter and more powerful, so if you’ve got suggestions for great content, just let us know and we see what we can do. You can also help us make it better by reporting bugs. So next time you find a video, image or document, which does not get recognized correctly, please let us know: zoopport@gmail.com
Would love a way to add tags to multiple items in zoo.
For instance… I am an Aussie and we spell ‘colour’. If I want to add the American version tag ‘color’ I have to do that to each item…. same with spelling mistakes.. have to correct one-by-one.
I also want to tag all the items in my packs with a certain tag, so others can share eg. my ‘Logo’ design pack.
Also would like to see a feature to show more at a time on pages like http://zootool.com/everyone
Either a show/page or continious like when you are in your own zoo and the images keep coming in as needed.
Looking forward to seeing these features,
Geremy
Geremy | April 20, 2011
Just discovered this site and it’s great! Really loving it so far. I’m seconding the request for a way to tag multiple items with the same tag as well as suggesting that the ability to edit the URL of a page be implemented.
I’ve just imported a number of bookmarks into my account and discovered that there doesn’t seem to be a way to change the URL for a bookmark. Some of the sites I’d previously saved had moved to a different domain and I’d like to be able to link to the new one.
Aud | April 29, 2011