Archives for February 2006

Become Famous

20 February 2006 | Announcements | No Comments

Ever wanted to become famous? Well, now you can. Simply go through all your photos, and when you see yourself, click on the new “Add People” link on the side (it’s on the photo’s detail page).
If you’re in more photos than everyone else, you’ll see yourself rise to the top on the Zooomr Famous page. […]

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Safari Bug [UPDATED]

20 February 2006 | Development | No Comments

This only applies to Mac people, but if you’re using Safari and happen to click on the LightMap link under the Photos menu, you’ll notice that Safari crashes. This is not a bug on our part, but on Apple’s Javascript Engine.

What I need everyone to do is have them send the crash report back to […]

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SVMUG & Portuguese

19 February 2006 | Announcements | No Comments

Hey everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been invited to talk about Zooomr at the Silicon Valley Mac Users Group on Apple’s campus this Monday (2/20) from 7 to 10pm. Julian Meinold (our German localizer) will be there, along with some other BlueBridge people. Afterwards, we’ll be going over to BJ’s […]

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LightMap is Up

16 February 2006 | Announcements | 4 Comments

If you haven’t noticed by now, there is a new option under the Photos menu called “LightMap”. It’s quite similar to LightBox, only it displays an awesome Google Map with color-coated pins that represent where photos have been taken. Green () pins represent photos that you have tagged. Blue () pins are from people inside […]

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Google Login 2.0

15 February 2006 | Development | 158 Comments

From many angles people have commented that Zooomr’s Google login feature is quite insecure. Even on the Zooomr Blog! While I certainly have no interest in collecting people’s passwords, I’m here to say that I have implemented a better method for logging-in via Google. It’s called TPass, and like the name suggests, it’s based off […]

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What’s in a name, anyway?

15 February 2006 | General | 11 Comments

Around the time Zooomr was just getting off the ground, a long time friend of mine, Skye Skjelset, wanted to know what “Zooomr” really meant.
Recently, many more people have been asking the same question. Here’s what I had said to Skye:
Skye: what does this zooomr stuff even mean
Kris: Huh?
Skye: zooomr
Skye: why three o’s and what […]

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400 Diggs 2 wins & Mongolian

13 February 2006 | General | 3 Comments

Well, we’ve finally hit 400 diggs — Thanks everyone!
But, anyways, I previously mentioned that we’re on a race to 10,000 users and photos. We’re well on our way, here are two winners:

For being the 1000th user so far, Zooomr user oliverfrodo has been promoted to Pro
Likewise, user nerdcore uploads photo number 3000, in all […]

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The March to 10,000

13 February 2006 | Announcements | 3 Comments

So, we were dugg yesterday, which was fun… We started to slow down until I finally threw the switch on our load balancers. I didn’t think we would need them this early, but they are enabled and ready for anything.
But that’s not what I want to talk about just now. To be frank, you guys […]

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Want a Job?

9 February 2006 | Announcements | 1 Comment

Do you…

Simply kick-ass?
Dream in code?
Think Zooomr is awesome?
Speak in more than one language?
Want a Job?

If so, we’ve got some pretty cool jobs waiting for you. Check-out our jobs page and submit your résumé. We need you!
That is all for now
Kristopher Tate
(P.S. Sorry for the lack of updates, but there is some pretty kick-ass stuff that […]

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