Archives for July 2006

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Plastic Water, by doofusdave

19 July 2006 | Zooomr Highlights | 2 Comments

Plastic water
Hosted on Zooomr

Want to know where you can get a really cool shot of Tulpehocken Creek? Well you can now because doofusdave geotagged it for you.

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We’re Live, Baby!

17 July 2006 | Announcements, Development, General, System Notices | 169 Comments

Okay… we’re live!
How’s it look? Send your feedback here, please.
-Kristopher
(PS, I’ll shoot a post with a list of all of the new stuff tomorrow)
EDIT: Google users, please try your TPass again. Everything seems to be working again now.

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Almost there! [UPDATEDx2]

17 July 2006 | Announcements, General, System Notices | 30 Comments

Thank-you for your continued patience, Everyone! I’m happy to report that we’ll be launching today as planned.
I’m finishing-up all checks to the system as our SmartSet Cache is going through the thousands of images we’ve got.
I know it’s hard to wait, so here’s a sneak-peak at Zooomr2’s TagMap:
-Kristopher
UPDATE: We’ve been having some issues […]

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Even Stronger Than Ever

16 July 2006 | Announcements, Development, General, System Notices | 116 Comments

Hey Everyone, we’re going to be back soon and even stronger than ever.
After a tremendous amount of research in the last 30-or-so hours, I have not only located and locked-down the problem, but looked at some of the more lower-level aspects of Zooomr’s infrastructure to fine-tune our systems to meet both attackers and our users.
As […]

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Like a Dog That’s Just Been Beaten

14 July 2006 | Announcements, System Notices | 48 Comments

Well that’s how it feels when you work really hard for something for weeks just to have some bully kick sand in your face in the end. Yeah, we most likely will not be launching tonight and that sucks. I guess it goes with the territory when you’re a small start up. […]

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Official Zooomr Launch Slightly Delayed

14 July 2006 | Announcements | 49 Comments

Life Sucks When You’re Under a DOS AttackHosted on Zooomr

Well I suppose it serves us right for running a countdown timer to our launch at 5pm today, but Zooomr has been under a massive denial of service (DOS) attack all day and it has forced us to delay our launch by a few hours or […]

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Did Somebody Say Free Beer?

14 July 2006 | General | 20 Comments

Zooomr HQ Moves to Rubyred LabsHosted on Zooomr

Kris, Michael and I are hanging out at Rubyred Labs right now at 365 Brannan St. getting ready for tonight’s big launch.
As a reminder for those of you who can join us we will be here at Valleyschawg3 at 365 Brannan St. from 8pm to midnight […]

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See You on the Other Side

13 July 2006 | Announcements, System Notices | 25 Comments

Mike and I have been in our Santa Clara data center since 6pm yesterday, and we’ll be here until 8a working on some of the new infrastructure improvements, along with all of the other neat things we’ve got going on inside of Zooomr 2.0.
Anyways, Zooomr will be up tomorrow at 5pm PDT, so gentlemen, start […]

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Testing Zooomr For the Next Hour

12 July 2006 | General | 1 Comment

We’re running some tests on Zooomr during the next hour for our 2.0 launch on Friday so if service is down or sporadic it should be back up shortly.

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Zooomr Closure and Upgrade Notice

11 July 2006 | Announcements, System Notices | 63 Comments

Hey Everyone,
I just wanted to say that this is a 24 hour notice to notify everyone that Zooomr will be closed from 12:01a PDT on Thurday, July 13th until 5:00p PDT on Friday, July 14th.
This is so that we can upgrade Zooomr to our new 2.0 release. Please note that all of your photos posted […]

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