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Hey folks, I’m keeping the features and refinements coming! Around 3a PDT (10a UTC; See World Map) I’m going to be bringing Zooomr’s main pages down for several minutes while I update Zooomr for the changes I’m going to make and also fix some issues that stem lower than just the app code.

I’ll try to put some screenshots up of some of the new stuff soon.

On Thursday, Thomas and I were over at Six Apart checking-out their new project VOX — and it’s really kicking some major butt. Andrew Anker (VOX’s GM) certainly has a good feel for the road ahead, so I don’t think it’s wild to say that it’s certainly going to take 6A in a great direction — awesome!

More as it comes!

-Kristopher

UPDATE: Here’s a shot of the new Friend-of-a-Friend system. Enjoy.

FOAF, Baby! Hosted on Zooomr

Zmail is Live Hosted on Zooomr

Thanks for your patience over the course of the past two days. We are happy to announce that Zmail is now live. Check it out by clicking on the little envelope at the top of a page next to your name. You can now compose and send messages to your Zooomr friends.

While Zmail is not meant to be a replacement for your regular email, we think it will be a helpful tool for people to use to communicate with each other on Zooomr.

To compose a message to someone just start typing their name and you should see their avatar pop up. We hope you like seeing the avatars in the Zmail system.

A couple of the nice built in features with Zmail are the ability to send Zmails to multiple recipients, a little eye icon to tell you when someone has viewed your zmail and a nice rich text editor allowing you to bold, italicize, or include http hyperlinks into your messages to your friends.

So feel free to give someone a Zmail the next time you see yourself in one of their photos that they need to peopletag you with or if you want to tell them how cool their photography is or if you just want to make a new friend.

Please let us know what you think about Zmail and if their are other mail based features you would like to see on Zooomr.

color dance Hosted on Zooomr

Zooomr member Valeria has a great way with motion and color. Check out more great Valeria shots here.

Hey Everyone, just wanted to let you know that I’ve been working on some new features that I expect to have ready by tomorrow.

I’ll have more info after we fully announce it tomorrow.

Zooom on!

-Kristopher

(Aside: Thomas and I went shooting today around San Francisco — Here are some of the shots I took.)

Burnout Hosted on Zooomr

Brad77 just put up some great shots of old cars including the one above. From the geotag it looks like this old car is down near San Diego. Interestingly enough, San Diego right now is the number one place in the world that traffic to Zooomr is coming from. Number two and three are Mexico City and Beijing respectively. Where in the world are you zoooming from?

Hey Everyone, just wanted to let everyone know that I just updated our production site with some new goodies including an Italian Localization by Zooomr user Michele Costantino Soccio. Thanks Michele!

Some users outside of the US might notice some speed-ups due to some better delivery mechanisms that I just put into place, as well.

Enjoy,

Kristopher Tate

Kevin Rose, Digg Hosted on Zooomr

Kristopher and I are hanging out today and tomorrow at the Future of Web Apps Conference here at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Kevin Rose just got done talking about Digg and there is lots and lots about social networks and how to make them better. Hopefully we can learn a bit to make Zooomr even better as well.

I’ve got a SmartSet of shots of the conference available up here. If you have any FWA shots feel free to tag them FWA or FWA2006 and drop a comment.

Hey Everyone, our Lunch2.0 special is finally live — SOOO many awesome people came by our booth over at Hitachi Data Systems that I was swamped. Here are some quick things to look for in the new version:

• New TagMap
• New Comments Display
• NEW ICONS (YEAH!) [Thanks to our UK buddy Mark James for those guys!]
• New Privacy editing! Check it out on your photos page and on your photo stream
• Mannnnny Speed and system improvements
• BEST FOR LAST: jUploadr is finally announced — upload your photos to Zooomr even faster! — check it out on your Zooomr upload page

But, you know what folks? I’m not even done yet — we’re sitting on LOADS of more awesome Zooomr goodies that should debut later this month.

I gotta get some rest, but please let us know how things are working out in the comments…

-Kristopher

Robert Scoble and Kristopher Tate Hosted on Zooomr

Kristopher and I are here at Lunch 2.0 hanging out with a lot of other companies and talking about Zooomr. We plan on launching a bunch of cool things this afternoon so stay tuned. We are live on the scene and hope you will be pleased with what we come up with.

I’ve got a little set of images of the event up here.

Hey Everyone, Kris here — it’s been awhile since I’ve written about my developments. We’ve got some massive new updates to TagMap, a bulk uploadr (!) and an interface refresh coming tomorrow live from Lunch2.0.

I can’t talk about a lot of it right now, so it’s best that you come down to Hitachi Data Systems tomorrow at, well, lunch time!

Much love,

-Kristopher

A Taste of the New TagMap: 1 of 2 Hosted on Zooomr

A Taste of the New TagMap: 2 of 2 Hosted on Zooomr