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Big in Belgium?

by Kristopher Tate | 15 March 2006 | Press & Accolades | 9 Comments

Zooomr’s Dutch localizer, Kris Vandecruys, caught me in today’s issue of Metro. Here’s what he had to say:

SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD WHIZZKID OUTSMARTS YAHOO’S PHOTOSERVICE

“The 17-year old Kristopher Tate has, in a mere 3 months time, hacked
together a photoservice on steroids. His application offers much better
services than competitors such as Flickr, Yahoo’s Photoservice, and
believes in the Web-2.0 Religion. More to see at 17h00 CET at
metrotime.be“

I tried to stay as close to the original text as possible, hence the
ugly English here and there. The sentence about the religion thing is
really hard to translate directly, the religion thing really isn’t
relevant. Think of it more as a pretty way of saying you’re running a
clean web2.0 app. CET == GMT/UTC+1.

The name of the newspaper is Metro and iirc has some 616,000 readers. Congrats man, you’re Big in
Belgium!

Here’s a photo and its original text. Click it for a bigger size.

Kristopher Tate inside the Belgium newspaper Metro

Thanks,

Kristopher Tate

9 Comments

  1. Bart N. said on 15 Mar 2006 at 1:12 am:

    I read the article in Metro but I allready saw ZOOOMR via Digg.

    It’s practically impossible to have not read about ZOOOMR by now :)

  2. The WAB said on 15 Mar 2006 at 7:44 am:

    I will read it on the way home.

    Congratulations, when you made it in Belgium you will make it everywere.

  3. Gavin said on 15 Mar 2006 at 8:24 am:

    Perhaps instead of religion, a better English word might be ‘mantra’?

    See definition 2 at Cambridge Dictionary Online.

    So it would become: “…believes in the Web 2.0 mantra.”

  4. michael arrington said on 15 Mar 2006 at 9:48 am:

    so much for copyright on that picture… :-) Congrats Kris!

  5. dJOEk said on 15 Mar 2006 at 2:31 pm:

    Gavin,

    Mantra is indeed just right!
    Mind you, it was early morning and i was commuting :D

  6. Franek said on 16 Mar 2006 at 1:12 am:

    There’s another article in todays Metro !
    Seems even bigger than that of yesterday.

  7. Kristopher Tate said on 16 Mar 2006 at 1:19 am:

    Haha, yeah?

    Hopefully Kris V. was able to take a photo of it :)

    -Kris

  8. Franek said on 16 Mar 2006 at 1:31 am:

    If not, I’ll get you one :)
    This time the title is: “seventeen-year old shakes photoservice out of his sleeve”.

  9. Kristopher Tate said on 16 Mar 2006 at 2:23 am:

    Awesome Franek — Kris V. says he’ll try and grab one for me, but I would appreciate you taking some photos as well.

    I really appreciate this!

    -Kris

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