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Zooomr Mark III : Open Letter to the World

by Kristopher Tate | 17 November 2006 | Announcements, Development, Video Blog | 51 Comments

Zooomr Mark III Logo

Good-evening, everyone — It’s Kristopher.

Over the past 3-4 months, I’ve been working on extending Zooomr into an even more Universal website.

Today, the world is regionalized — From DVDs to Video Games and even photo sharing — the universal nature of photos is still locked-down to regions.

Now, the Web gives us an inspiring opportunity to change all of this and even though that may be so, many have still opted to regionalize these universal experiences. Experiences of birthdays, of children — friends and loved ones — even the ones that are almost out-of-this-world.

I started Zooomr a little more than a year ago to change all of this. I started Zooomr to help share my photos to my friends and family members around the world — and, thanks to this, many more have, as well.

Today, I’d like to take a moment to expand on this and offer a bit of direction into where we’re going with Zooomr. Simply put, we are going to become the photo sharing website and social community for the entire world.

“Wow, what a bold statement,” right? I’ve always pushed the envelope and I think it’s about time we pushed it even further.

As time quickly moves forward, the methods we will take to augment this bold statement will become much more clear under the name “Zooomr Mark III”.

In the end, Please be patient with us, but please do not hesitate to contribute. Zooomr is not great on its own — it’s all about our community — and that means people like you.

As Mark3 draws near, I will have much more information to share with you.

So, until then,

Thanks for listening & goodnight.

51 Comments

  1. Muralikrishnan said on 17 Nov 2006 at 7:20 pm:

    Hey Kris

    May the force be with you !
    Cheers & thanks for all the great work

    Looking forward to Mark 3

  2. Lon said on 17 Nov 2006 at 8:13 pm:

    very cool. bring it on!

  3. tim said on 17 Nov 2006 at 9:00 pm:

    Very cool. Thanks for the update.

  4. Kristopher Tate said on 17 Nov 2006 at 9:42 pm:

    Hey guys, thank-you!

    Working hard on this one…

    -Kristopher

  5. Taavi said on 17 Nov 2006 at 11:09 pm:

    Ooooh, sounds good. I’ll try to wait patiently and not hesitate to contribute :)

  6. miketrevis said on 17 Nov 2006 at 11:17 pm:

    bleah! it sound like gillette mach 3…

  7. Chris Sansbury said on 18 Nov 2006 at 2:28 am:

    It’s always nice to get an update…especially when it’s news of a ‘version update’ of the site. Keep up the good work. Don’t forget to get some sleep, and drink plenty water.

    ;-)

    p.s. I am not your parents in disguise

  8. themak said on 18 Nov 2006 at 4:32 am:

    Insane cool.
    Keep up the good work.
    P.S. Loving the new logo.

  9. Alexandru Savu said on 18 Nov 2006 at 9:53 am:

    Great stuff man, since I’m on zooomr my photography apetite has gone wild. Go go go!

  10. djp said on 18 Nov 2006 at 6:25 pm:

    echo:
    GO GO GO!!
    especially since all the pictures have DISSAPPEARED!

  11. skyloper said on 18 Nov 2006 at 6:34 pm:

    It seems the photoes not avaiable now ?
    When I get up this morning,I want to upload some pictures.After my login,the photoes are all unavailable now.Is there anything wrong ?
    I can not find any email address to your guys,maybe here is a place ?

  12. Kyle Smyth said on 18 Nov 2006 at 6:45 pm:

    Thats awsome, can’t wait

  13. Nelson said on 18 Nov 2006 at 8:35 pm:

    ¡Woot! Can’t wait :-)

  14. Matti Leppänen - Lost In Web said on 18 Nov 2006 at 8:36 pm:

    Zooomr, whats up?

    Was supposed to upload some photos to Zooomr, but got greeted with truckload of photos just saying “Sorry, this photo is currently unavailable”. So got a bit baffled of what is happening, and decided to postpone my upload session. Quick gla…

  15. Raoul said on 18 Nov 2006 at 10:34 pm:

    Have you already started working on this upgrade? I wonder if the current Zooomr outage is caused by the changes that need to be made.

  16. foxbok said on 18 Nov 2006 at 11:00 pm:

    what happend? all the photos are unavailable

  17. Dana said on 18 Nov 2006 at 11:16 pm:

    I dunno but I hope it goes back up soon!

  18. Muralikrishnan said on 18 Nov 2006 at 11:23 pm:

    I am experiencing withdrawal symptoms due to the outage

    Hope it gets back up real soon !!!

  19. tinyau said on 18 Nov 2006 at 11:54 pm:

    Yep, all of the photos cannot be shown now. Hope to be fixed soon.

  20. fokewulf said on 19 Nov 2006 at 12:02 am:

    Great work Kris.
    I have abandoned Flickr for Zooomr, because it has become my preferred web application !! See you on MARK III… ^__-

  21. Hang said on 19 Nov 2006 at 1:34 am:

    Yes, I afraid this is my problem, but its seems that all photo from Zooomr cannot show, hope to be fix soon.
    And Support~

    Msg From HK.

  22. gareth thomas said on 19 Nov 2006 at 4:01 am:

    Looks like a lot of work ahead by the sound of it Kris. Major upgrades in the internet world can be extremely stressful, having been through 3 and about to be involved in a 4th I can feel your pain.

  23. Gareth Hall said on 19 Nov 2006 at 4:51 am:

    Where have all my photos gone?

  24. Lien CF said on 19 Nov 2006 at 6:25 am:

    My photos gone, and can’t upload anymore.
    >_

  25. Taavi said on 19 Nov 2006 at 6:36 am:

    I’m going to be really sad if the server hell has re-occurred. Could you guys please tell us what’s going on?

  26. Nitesh Gautam said on 19 Nov 2006 at 6:42 am:

    It is really bad when you make statement like -

    We are going to become the photo sharing website and social community for the entire world.

    And then, you don’t send any notice about service outage at Zooomr.

  27. ABeliever13 said on 19 Nov 2006 at 10:48 am:

    Whatever the problem is- good luck fixing it. Very excited about the upgrade!

  28. Wally said on 20 Nov 2006 at 12:12 pm:

    Ok, i think you never read the blog comments, but anyway…

    YOU URGENTLY NEED A USABILITY TEST.

    I can help you with what i see but im no expert, for example, creating a new SmartSet can be as confusing as your first intercourse with an alien.

    Secondly, please. PLEASE, dont just copy flickr, IMPROVE upon them.

    Thanks i love the site and i use it more and more every day

  29. Taavi said on 20 Nov 2006 at 12:31 pm:

    Let us see what Mark III brings, Wally. I’m quite sure some innovations are introducesd. I believe they read the comments. I have found Thomas Hawk’s replies to questions multiple times. We could use a reply now, I’m still wondering what that outage was caused by.

  30. sinclair said on 20 Nov 2006 at 8:28 pm:

    how can i use share with family?
    I can not find a place to config who my family is

  31. rukasu said on 20 Nov 2006 at 11:19 pm:

    I agree, some explanations for things…Like when geotagging what do the different colors signify, I’ve been using Zooomr for 5 months and I still have no clue what each means, and I like the idea of smartset instructions…but looking forward to what unveiled

  32. cmiper said on 21 Nov 2006 at 3:49 am:

    @rukasa- Te colored dots (when checked ON) will indicate whose photos to show when viewing the TagMap.

    RED - Everyone’s
    GREEN - Your’s
    BLUE - Your Social Circle’s

    Check them on and off to show/hide the ones you do or don’t want to see.

  33. fokewulf said on 22 Nov 2006 at 12:55 am:

    Hi Kris.

    I have a problem…Today, when login with my Myopenid ID…don’t work…Why?

  34. free/Hogg said on 25 Nov 2006 at 9:56 pm:

    Trying to become a Pro on Zooomr . . . again

    Update: It did indeed work. I lost my Pro 4 Life status though when I opened my new account. I’ve sent e-mails and blog comments in the hope that I will be restored to where I once stood so proudly. On the good side though, the new Pro accounts n…

  35. Kor Shu Yen said on 29 Nov 2006 at 5:28 am:

    Haha, somehow I thought the video looked like a message from a megalomaniac.

    Anyway, here’s a suggestion: Can we have a batch edit for tagging, geotagging, image titles and image rotation?

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