Official Zooomr Blog

Some exciting news today, Everyone.

Thomas Hawk, one of the coolest bloggers and photographers around, has just posted some words on why he has decided to join and what his new involvement here at Zooomr will entail.

Thomas will become Zooomr’s ‘Chief Evangelist’ and employee no. 2.

For the longest time, I wondered how long I could go as a one-man development team — and the answer is pretty far — Surprisingly to the extent where Zooomr has been written-up in newspapers around the globe.

And, while being a one-man development team has its perks, there is one area where I wish I could have some help, and that’s community — Thomas understands the community. He knows great people and new people alike — he also understands how communities interoperate. You will see that Zooomr will become more rapidly community operated. You will see many new features in Zooomr 2 that will make it a much more community driven site, most of which can be attributed to Thomas’ involvement.

So, it is with great enthusiasm that today with Thomas, we are announcing his joining of Zooomr.

In his own words:

So Flickr did a lot for me. It encouraged my photography, it inspired me, it created lasting friendships. And I am today really, really into it. I started a Flickr blog. I post virtually every day on Flickr. etc. I still love Flickr and will always love Flickr. But…

About two months ago Mike Arrington wrote a blog post about a “Flickr on Steroids”. This, as you would imagine, greatly peaked my interest. After Mike’s post I took a look at Zooomr myself. And I really really liked the potential.

Since then and over the course of the past few months I’ve gotten to know Kristopher Tate, Zooomr’s founder and only employee, a bit better. Kris Tate is this ambitious 18 year old software genius.

[…] This decision to join Zooomr, by the way, is in no way meant to imply that Flickr is not great. On the contrary. I spent a bit of time last night talking on the phone with Stewart Butterfield from Flickr about my decision to join Zooomr. How it represents for me personally a unique opportunity to jump into the tech startup world hands on. How working with Kris will give me an opportunity to influence many more of the great features that I feel ought to be developed from a photogeek perspective. Why I felt it an exciting opportunity and one I ought to pursue.

Welcome aboard, Thomas!

Kristopher Tate

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