Online digital photo printing gets some serious competition
Online digital photo printing and shipping to anywhere in India was a category that did not exist a few years back. While Picsquare, iTasveer and others shaped up this domain, the existing players are in for some serious competition from newcomer and yet-in-stealth startup, ZoomIn.
ZoomIn hopes to become the single destination for storing, sharing and printing of digital photos for NRI’s as well as the fast emerging market in India. A quick test-drive of the site and I came away impressed. The site has the regular set of features one would expect from the photo sharing and printing website. Photos can be uploaded using the regular process or using a Java applet for bulk upload. Users can optionally also import their photos from Picasa and Flickr. You can tag photos, do some simple editing (rotate, editing caption and titles) on the photos, set access control and link to photos directly from your website/blog. A touch of AJAX greatly enhances the ordering prints process. Prices are fairly competitive and in-line with other competitors. The UI is very clean, intuitive and simple to use.
One of the ways ZoomIn separates itself is that alongwith shipping to India, users also have the option to order prints and have them shipped to their homes in the US. The company also has a strong, experienced management team at the helm. CEO and co-founder, Sunny Balijepalli, had previously founded Half.com, which was sold to eBay for $350 million in 2000. They feel that such a strong management team gives them an edge to attain the leadership position in this market.
Their strategic plan includes:
1) forming alliances with social networks to provide photo printing services to their members
2) Mobile phone upload and order features
3) Expand to other emerging markets in the future
ZoomIn definitely seems to have a great,experienced team at the helm. I can see them being a credible threat to the other startups.
They are currently in stealth and will be publicly launching on September 12th.
September 13th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Truly Spoken, seems like a whole new world has evolved out of nowhere!! Zoomin seems very interesting & promising . off late i heard even G.K.Vale going online(www.gkvale.com). Cue taken eh?
For those few of us, who are die hard fans of g.K.vale this comes as a breather. Lets see where the battle heads though…I would say time to tighten our seat belts!Ladies & gentlemen we are in for some action AND some treats too..!! 
August 27th, 2008 at 7:45 am
anybody have any idea of the results of zoomin photo competition?