Archives for July 2006

Blue Skies, Shining on Me

29 July 2006 | Zooomr Highlights | 24 Comments

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Zooomr User mondegreen has an amazing eye. Click through here to check out his photos. His color work is fantastic.

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Speedy

28 July 2006 | Zooomr Highlights | 4 Comments

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Anyone want to guess how long it’s going to take this snail named Speedy to get from an island in Rhode Island to California? Check out more great photography from cmiper here.
Update: A commentor notes that Speedy here is actually geotagged in Massachusetts and Not Rhode Island. Damn, that’s […]

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The Photography of Kris Kros

25 July 2006 | Zooomr Highlights | 9 Comments

i’m trying to read their minds Hosted on Zooomr
Kris Kros has some of the most amazing images and one of the best photographic eyes. He’s also recently started a blog that you can check out here. He is also one of the finest HDR photographers out there today and produces some truly […]

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Need New Shoes on Your Way to Wimbledon?

24 July 2006 | Zooomr Highlights | 4 Comments

“Ooh New Shoes”? Hosted on Zooomr
Zedproductions not only points us to these shoes at a local Arts and Crafts market outside of Wimbledon, but they are geotagged for all the world to find themselves if you’d like to buy a pair. Nice work Zedproductions and thanks for sharing!

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Just Broke Over One Million Results

23 July 2006 | Announcements | 16 Comments

Great news everyone! It seems that a search for “Zooomr OR Zoomr” on Google displays over one million results. Here’s the screenshot:

Thomas and I certainly appreciate everyone who has blogged about us since, well, ever. As well as everyone else who has made Zooomr into what it is today.
Thank-you.
Kristopher tate

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Checking-In: I’ve Been Listening [UPDATED]

22 July 2006 | Announcements, Development, System Notices | 70 Comments

Hi folks, I’m going to release some big fixes to Zooomr here sometime before 10a PDT with some improvements.
Some fixes / updates:

Old OpenIDs now go to the correct account. (Yeah, I know.)
Smarter Google / Meetro merge subsystem. People who have gone through the system once and discovered that the system didn’t pick-up on your old […]

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New Merge System Imminent

20 July 2006 | Development | 18 Comments

Hi Everyone, I’ve been busy fixing some post2.0 glitches including smartset errors.
Anywho, I wanted to let people know that a better designed merge system is in the works and people who have always had OpenIDs, who have been experiencing problems will have their issues auto-corrected when this patch goes to production.
More as it becomes available.
Thanks,
Kristopher […]

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Want to Know Where the Coolest Lava Lamps in the World Are?

20 July 2006 | Zooomr Highlights | 6 Comments

Lava lamps in my office
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They just so happen to be over in France in Michel’s office. Check out these great lava lamps. And glad to have you as one of our Pro blogger michel. Thanks!

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Post2.0 Mini Update

20 July 2006 | Development | 27 Comments

Hey folks, I know there were some glitches with OpenID merging, so I spent most of yesterday talking with my colleagues on the OpenID front as long as working-out possible recovery scenarios.
Don’t worry, we’ve got your backs — I just want to make sure I get everything perfect so future problems do not occur.
Thanks,
Kristopher

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Sending Our Love to Bloggers: 2.5GB 4GB Free Pro Accounts

20 July 2006 | Announcements, General | 209 Comments

Thomas posted a little while back that we’re giving free Pro accounts to Bloggers. And, well, we still are — to be quite frank, it’s going very well.
But, Thomas and I have been thinking lately about rewarding bloggers further. So, we’re announcing today that we’re giving any blogger around (that includes our LiveJournal, Xanga and […]

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