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The World is a Beautiful Place

by Thomas Hawk | 9 November 2006 | General, Zooomr Highlights | 12 Comments

Makarska - CroatiaMakarska - Croatia Hosted on Zooomr

One of the things that I love about having Zooomr in 18 different localizations is that the experience of seeing photos on Zooomr is truly an international one. I was going through ch0hlik’s stream today and found this great shot from Croatia. ch0hlik has a set of images up from Croatia here. As well as sets up from Warsaw and Lomza .

Today Zooomr is localized in more languages and dialects than any other photo sharing site that we are aware of. And the localization work has actually been done by the Zooomr community. It is all of you who have chipped in and taken the time to translate the site into the languages that we have today.

Kristopher started Zooomr a little over a year ago because he didn’t have a good photo sharing site to share photos with his friends from Japan. Since then through your generousity more and more languages have been added to the site. We want to continue to localize Zooomr because we think we all benefit by being able to photo share more globally than we would otherwise.

We are very pleased with Zooomr’s current mix of traffic. It really is divided pretty equally all over the world. More traffic is coming from Asia than anywhere right now but not by too large of an amount. Europe is strong as are the Americas. We’ve noticed the activity from Cape Town South Africa, from Australia, and lots of other places on the globe.

If there are languages that Zooomr has not been translated into yet that you would like to see on Zooomr, or if you think a particular language needs to be improved, please let us know. We would love your help, if you are so inclined, in making Zooomr a more and more universal site for the benefit of all of us.

12 Comments

  1. Ben said on 9 Nov 2006 at 11:07 am:

    I really wish I could translate something for you guys. One of the things I always wanted to do, but never did, was learn a second language. I took Latin a while ago, but I guess that would be useless. What about gibberish? I am sure I could help you there!

    JK, keep up the awesome work, guys. Thanks for taking care of my photos for me. :)

  2. Mio said on 9 Nov 2006 at 11:38 am:

    Hey guys, I wrote you a letter about Russian a week ago… :)

  3. Dana said on 9 Nov 2006 at 11:54 am:

    Hm…. I’m sure there could be some people that would appreciate a good Klingon translation… any takers?? ;)

  4. Fajro said on 9 Nov 2006 at 11:59 am:

    I’m making the Esperanto translation xD

    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/fajro/263056

    ;-)

  5. Thomas Hawk said on 9 Nov 2006 at 12:23 pm:

    Fajro, thanks so much for your help with the Esperanto translation.

    Dana,

    HIja’

    Klingon would be friggin’ awesome. Now *that* would be a lot of work, but super, super cool.

  6. Taavi said on 9 Nov 2006 at 12:48 pm:

    Klingon would be so cool :D I’d love to help with the Estonian translation. I also love localization. Only thing is that there is also more repetitive or ‘boring’ photos up here. Waiting for awesomeness :)

  7. gigi4791 said on 9 Nov 2006 at 4:04 pm:

    what about romanian?

  8. Dan said on 10 Nov 2006 at 12:11 am:

    Kris/Thomas,

    I offered to help with the Finnish translation but have not receievd the strings yet. Still need my help?

    Thanks for the Cape Town mention :)

  9. Abby said on 10 Nov 2006 at 3:34 am:

    I can offer Hindi translation. With India on an internet boom, you might as well want it. Mebo/Wikipedia etc. are already avilable in several Indian regional languages apart from Hindi.

    Ping me!

  10. Adrian Libotean said on 10 Nov 2006 at 9:47 am:

    Hi guys! I’m volunteering for a Romanian translation if you’re interested. Please drop me an email. Thanks.

  11. Wally said on 10 Nov 2006 at 11:37 am:

    I would like to complete Latin American Spanish (usually known as Spanish, Argentina)

    Please tell me how.

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