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Upload Limits Reset for December; Let’s End This Year Right!

by Kristopher Tate | 1 December 2006 | Announcements, General, System Notices | 36 Comments

Hey friends, I’ve just reset our monthly upload limit for December, but I wanted to ask a favour from everyone:

Let’s do this thing right!

Everyone, I thank you. To everyone who posts, uploads, comments and interacts — thank you from the bottom of my heart.

This year has been an insightful & emotional one. So please, let’s not stop here — let’s do it right by finishing off the year in style!

I’m polishing Mark III right now to excel beyond photo sharing, into a place where we can truly share the experience of life and those around us. Throughout the year, I have taken the ideas that I founded Zooomr upon, even those similar to the ones above, and pushed the envelope on how we interact with photos themselves today — Solutions from audio annotation clear through to portals and even pioneering new ways to interact with photos on maps, highlighting your own journeys through life itself.

Mark III will Change the Game yet again…

Friends around the world, please help me realize the broadest release of Zooomr yet into the world as your own. Help people see first-hand experiences from our friends in Africa, Taiwan, Estonia, India and Japan (x2 & x3).

I want to connect the world with itself — first hand, from your eyes. And, I hope that I am not alone.

I have been simply moved by the thousands of family and baby photos shared through Zooomr. Especially the first hand experiences from places like the streets of Lima, Peru.

Friends, you have already done me a pleasure that many do not get to experience: I have been able to see the world through the world’s eyes — your eyes. Now, please help me share this wonderful experience with the world over, as well.

I hope that Mark III will empower you to do the same that you have so graciously shared with me.

Thank you and season’s greetings,

-Kristopher

36 Comments

  1. Raoul said on 1 Dec 2006 at 6:56 am:

    Thanks Kris, keep up the fantastic work! Hey, did anyone notice Kris’ first name goes well with Kringle? So, Kris Kringle, does that mean we’re getting MarkIII for Christmas this year?

  2. kenichimatsumoto said on 1 Dec 2006 at 7:46 am:

    Great,Kris! I love to play with zooomr.Your pure soul moves me, man. Thanks!

  3. Taavi said on 1 Dec 2006 at 8:45 am:

    4 months ago, when I first started doing some photography, I was in front of a dilemma. Which photo sharing site to use? There were so many to choose from, yet only two seemed reasonable: Zooomr and Flickr. After familiarization with both of them, I chose Zooomr. It looked as if Flickr was only after the money, while Zooomr seemed more user-friendly and appeared to have way bigger potential. And how glad I am that I chose Zooomr. It has been wonderful. I wish Zooomr and Mark III great success in the future, thank you for the heart and sole the has gone into development and for linking to my shots :)

  4. tim said on 1 Dec 2006 at 9:14 am:

    Thanks again, Kris, for all your work on our behalf. I promise I’ll try my best to use up my upload limit. :)

    In addition, my goal is to bring at least 10 people to Zooomr in December.

    Feliz Navidad.

  5. Ben said on 1 Dec 2006 at 10:11 am:

    Thanks Kris. Looking forward to MarkIII! I love this site. I love checking the blog and feeling so close to all the action. You really are extremely talented and I know Zooomr and anything else you may do in the future will be outstanding.

  6. Beau Liening said on 1 Dec 2006 at 10:18 am:

    Kris, your work is amazing. I can’t wait until Mark III comes out, and I’ll do my best to fill up my upload limit this month. =)

  7. gareth thomas said on 1 Dec 2006 at 10:55 am:

    Kris,

    sounds great, looking forward to MKIII, make sure you take SOME time off over the holidays to relax a little though!

  8. Dada said on 1 Dec 2006 at 11:32 am:

    What I like most about Zooomr is the positive feeling. Nice light coloured interface. I enjoy the personal touch by Kris. I think we’re part of something special here. Zooomr actually made me photograph more! Thanks for that!
    Looking forward to the new release!

  9. Chris said on 1 Dec 2006 at 11:39 am:

    The site is great and I enjoy it immensely. However, please do something about the UI. It’s slightly unwieldy and navigating the site is not an easy experience at first. Once you get the hang of where everything is then it’s OK but it’s that first leap you need to make which I think is the biggest stumbling block for zooomr. I know you’ve mentioned improvements are coming and I look forward to seeing them. Until then though I’m going to have to stay properly at Flickr until I feel more comfortable at zooomr. Please don’t take this as a bashing. The site really is fantastic and I can see a lot of good things here. If you carry on at this rate then you really will leave Flickr for dust.

    All the best for the future :)

    Chris

  10. Dada said on 1 Dec 2006 at 12:06 pm:

    OK. Some small complaints….
    Please improve IE support! There are still some problems with IE:
    - Portals and notes don’t work
    - The ‘Things to do’ and smartset thumbnails on the ‘your photos’ page falls down.
    - The EXIF info page is a mess.
    I’ve already switched to Firefox, but sometimes I have only access to IE.

  11. ddd said on 1 Dec 2006 at 6:29 pm:

    When can Zooomr have the slideshow?

  12. Dada said on 2 Dec 2006 at 2:57 am:

    Yes! Slideshows, that would be nice! I’d like the possibility to start a slideshow for a smartset and smartset based zooomrtations. The zooomrtation plays while watching the set (in the normal view or the new slideshow mode).
    Plus: scroll buttons in the streamer.
    OK, that’s my Xmas wishlist for this year :-)

  13. TravisP said on 2 Dec 2006 at 4:53 am:

    I cannot wait for Mark III. Well… I guess I can because I am still able to use the great functionality of Zooomr (mark II).
    I second Dada’s issues with IE. On a whole the experience is pretty lame in IE, 6 & 7. Smartsets don’t work properly as well. I have sent some issues through in the past re IE, and you have fixed those pretty quickly, so hopefully Mark III will not suffer from this and what Dada mentioned above. I actually only use Firefox for Zooomr now.
    My current user add rate is now five… five family and friends, and one of those a convert from that other site. Looking forward to adding a lot more in the future.
    For my Xmas Wishlist, I would like to be able to upload RAW files complete with MetaData (including tags), select the resolution I want to convert the RAW files from and then see them in JPEG on Zooomr. I know that it is a biggy, but I would prefer to just work in RAW and not have to convert to JPEG just to upload to Zooomr. Of course, it may also not be possible due to the closed RAW formats of some manufacturers such as Nikon’s NEF etc, but it would be great function.

    Looking forward to Mark III. Keep up the great work Kris and Thomas!

  14. だりん said on 2 Dec 2006 at 9:11 pm:

    Whoo.. I got a link ;) Score. And Nikon RAW support would be awesome.

  15. Juan Arellano said on 3 Dec 2006 at 9:32 pm:

    Hey Kris.. Thanks for the mention. I have just read your post and can´t believe what i see.. thanks again.

  16. yanz said on 3 Dec 2006 at 11:37 pm:

    Thanks Kris for linking to my account. It’s so nice.
    I’ve enjoyed watching (and off course,experiencing) Zooomr growing all the time since I joined. I guess it’s because I can feel easily that you love photographing so much.
    Looking forward to next MarkIII and hoping you keep us in touch from now on and letting me experience global.

  17. Kosta said on 4 Dec 2006 at 5:08 am:

    Hi! First of all I wanted to say thanks for the great service! I like it a lot…
    I don’t have my public photos yet because I haven’t finished uploading and organizing them… which brings me to the subject - With all it’s great features, there is one area where it is severely (IMHO) lacking;

    Organization. I like the many nice and innovative social features of Zooomr - it makes searching browsing and viewing others’ photos very easy, but it makes watching and one’s own photos quite hard and inconvenient. Some major features I find lacking:
    searching your own photos by tag or by name.
    Changing the order by which photos are displayed.
    Jumping to an arbitrary page on the photo list, instead of the 10 closest pages and first/last.
    Changing the number of photos displayed on a page.
    Mass tagging and tagging from list view.
    There are some other features which would make it even better/easier, but these are the most urgent I think. Many of these, if available, would also better the social features a lot.

    I think all of these need to be worked out one way or another for Zooomr to grow and get more adoption.

    my 2 cents,
    Kosta.

  18. Murali said on 4 Dec 2006 at 8:29 am:

    I am on Zooomr because of Kris’s (& Thomas’s) personal touch

    You are cool & doing a great job with it. More power to you, my friends

    Have a great holiday season and good luck for Mark III

  19. tim said on 4 Dec 2006 at 11:41 am:

    Kosta, every one of your issues has been brought up before in the comments of past posts. I believe Kris is working on solutions for most (if not all). Let’s wait to see what MIII brings…

    One way to jump to an arbitrary page is to change the number after “page=” in the url. For instance if you are on page 5 of my photos and you want to go to page 35 you’d change (and I can’t think of why anyone would want to do that in my photostream):

    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/SaxMan?page=5

    to

    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/SaxMan?page=35

    ONe thing, though, I’m hoping is addressed is the Zooomr API. I know ther are some developers itching to build their own tools to be used with Zooomr.

  20. Kosta said on 4 Dec 2006 at 1:18 pm:

    tim, I’m very new to zooomr, so I haven’t really read any prior posts…
    I’m glad that other have already brought those up - it means it’s not just ‘crazy me’ (I was a bit worried about that ;P)

    I am already familiar with this way of changing pages - but I would like it to be more streamlined - especially for other new users.

    I’m with you about the API - I was actually considering writing a hackish photo management script but if theres an API planned, I’ll wait.

    Thanks for the reply,
    Kosta.

  21. tim said on 4 Dec 2006 at 2:49 pm:

    @Kosta, sorry if I sounded snooty earlier. Didn’t mean to, but re-reading It seems I may have.

    RE the API, on 25 Sep 2006 at 10:58 am, Thomas Hawk said the API was done, but they were working on the documentation.

    Like you, I’d really like to know what the current status is.

  22. Kosta said on 4 Dec 2006 at 3:00 pm:

    Tim, it’s ok - don’t worry about it. There’s no need to apologize, but I accept it… :)

    Lets hope MIII will be awsome!

  23. ada said on 14 Dec 2006 at 2:12 am:

    Hey…Google Picasa Web Album now can upload videos. Flickr also provides unlimited uploads for pro users. Come on! Give me Mark III.

  24. tim said on 16 Dec 2006 at 9:08 am:

    @ada, have you ever used up your 4gb allotment here? Also, flickr still limits file size.

    As for Picasaweb, you have to pay them $25 to be able to upload videos. Even then, their storage limit is pretty small.

    Having said that, I’m still eagerly anticipating MIII. I hope it’s as awesome as I think it will be.

  25. range said on 25 Dec 2006 at 5:41 pm:

    Hey guys.

    Tim: I have hit my 4GB last night and most of these pictures were taken in the last two weeks. Granted, I just got a Nikon D200, but still most of my photos are 4MB jpg, haven’t yet experimented with RAW.

    I actually switched over to Zooomr a few months ago from flickr when I started taking a lot of pictures. I never hit the 4GB upload limit until this month. The closest I got was 2GB in September, right before we moved to Taiwan to teach; I was archiving all of my photos at the time so that I could access them from anywhere.

    Since flickr is offering unlimited uploads for pro accounts, I wonder when or if Zooomr will be doing the same? I have just gotten myself a Nikon D200 and I have taken quite a lot of pictures. I still have 300 to upload and can no longer do it this month.

    My remark is the following. I do not think that most photographers use Zooomr to its full potential and they will rarely hit the 4GB transfer limit. It is possible that I am completely wrong, but since my wife is also a photographer and she has only transfered 7% of her total limit, I can how some other people might be in the same basket as her. So for the few people who will hit the upload limit, make it higher or unlimited so that they can continue uploading.

    Contrary to sharing, I use Zooomr as an archival and blogging tool, meaning that most of my pictures are private, but you can see them in lower resolutions on my blog.

    I wouldn’t mind either a 8GB upload limit or an unlimited upload limit.

    Thanks a lot for the great work, Zooomr has come a long way. In a sense, I had preferred the flickr interface until recently. I have come to enjoy the Zooomr one. One thing that I wouldn’t mind is a flash scrolling tool that will navigate through your pictures when you are inspecting one.

  26. range said on 26 Dec 2006 at 5:40 am:

    Problem solved!
    Thanks Kristopher, I appreciate it a lot. This is another reason why I don’t use flickr anymore: you wouldn’t get this level or service with them!

    Merry Christmas and Happy new year!

  27. range said on 2 Jan 2007 at 4:12 pm:

    Hey everybody, happy new year!

    I recently discovered that smartsets are limited to 175 photos per set. Is there any ways this can be increased to maybe 500? I have a few sets that have more than 175 photos (365) and I really like the smartset feature.

    Thanks guys and keep up the great work!

  28. Aalwijn said on 7 Apr 2007 at 2:12 am:

    Aalwijn

    I realy enjoyed reading your blog, i needed some info on this subject for my new study economimy in the USA and your post helped me out a lot thank you for that

  29. Hermes said on 9 Jul 2007 at 4:06 am:

    Interesting…

  30. Theodore said on 9 Jul 2007 at 5:25 pm:

    Nice…

  31. Theodoros said on 9 Jul 2007 at 6:09 pm:

    Sorry :(

  32. George said on 9 Jul 2007 at 8:33 pm:

    Cool!

  33. Athanassios said on 9 Jul 2007 at 8:48 pm:

    Cool!

  34. Yannas said on 10 Jul 2007 at 11:38 am:

    Nice…

  35. Aleda said on 10 Jul 2007 at 11:49 am:

    Cool…

  36. Aleksiu said on 10 Jul 2007 at 12:42 pm:

    Nice

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