It's Alive!!!

So my site is now up and running. The site is called SoarPort.com and the idea is that it allows you to easily publish large dimension images online. This is different than Flickr or Picassa because once you publish the image at SoarPort, you can embed the SoarPort viewer, which is similar in its behavior to Google Maps or MapPoint. You "Soar" across the large dimension image through a "port" right within your blog or webpage.

Legend has it that YouTube was founded on the basis that publishing video content to the web "sucks". Well, one of the few remaining objects that is still a pain to publish to the web is(are) large dimension images. I've tried to make this process much easier. Near as I can tell, if you wanted to publish a large dimension image pre-SoarPort, you actually had to publish it twice: once as a squished version to display on your main page, then once in full zoom to be published in an alternate location to which your main page could link.

I look forward to hearing what people think of SoarPort. The site is in an early beta right now. Of course, it is a free service (and will remain so), so there's really no cost to using it. Enjoy.

Here is an example: