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Down to the Wire: Final Stages of Zooomr Mark III

by Kristopher Tate | 6 February 2007 | Announcements, Development, General | 40 Comments

Zooomr Mark III

Friends! Today, we’re officially coming out with the launch date for Zooomr Mark III, the third and best release of Zooomr to date. With over five months in the making, spanning typically 15-19 hours every day of my own time, Mark III has been built to treat your senses with the ability to help you better manage, find, socialize and sell their fine works with the world.

Over 250 enhancements, refinements and features have been put into this release making it also one of Zooomr’s largest releases yet — and it’s all coming out in March! Mark your calendars, tell your friends and let the good word be spread.

Since Zooomr’s conception, I have personally received over 100,000 of your emails, thoughtfully outlining what you like, what you’d like to see and how you would like the next-generation of photo sharing to become. This, combined with more than a little creativity from Thomas Hawk and myself has made Mark III into a modern marvel simply awaiting to be turned on.

And yet, there’s still so much to be told about each of the goodies we’ve put out third release.

With continued love,

-Kristopher

40 Comments

  1. nige said on 6 Feb 2007 at 10:24 am:

    boing! i am so looking forward to Mark III baby. nice work Kris. can’t wait to see the fruits of your labour.

    just added you & Thomas to my twitter. good luck with flickr, man!

  2. Mark Allanson said on 6 Feb 2007 at 10:35 am:

    A more flowery announcement I could not imagine ;)

    Looking forward to the release, lets hope it comes with a few more servers to handle the load!

  3. Justin King said on 6 Feb 2007 at 10:44 am:

    Awesome stuff, does this mean it will finally lose the beta status :)

    As my mother and wife both could not find my site because when I gave them the URL they decided it would be good to add www because they think all websites start with this and doing that www.beta.zooomr.com does not resolve the address.

  4. Tanguillo said on 6 Feb 2007 at 11:01 am:

    Nice!!! Good Job

  5. Julie said on 6 Feb 2007 at 11:03 am:

    Excellent! I know you’ve put in a a lot of work on this.

  6. Raoul said on 6 Feb 2007 at 11:53 am:

    Kris, can’t wait. Love the new logo, btw. :-) Wishing you only the best as you move forward with this, hope all the pieces fall into place neatly.

  7. Peter-Paul said on 6 Feb 2007 at 12:35 pm:

    I’m looking forward to that day.
    Mark III surely will be great.

  8. Taavi said on 6 Feb 2007 at 12:53 pm:

    Smashing. This is so going to nail me in front of the computer for some time just before my exams. Distressing.

  9. greywulf said on 6 Feb 2007 at 3:16 pm:

    I can’t wait! This is great news :)

    Way to go, Kristopher.

  10. kevin said on 6 Feb 2007 at 8:27 pm:

    I just joined recently after lots of research into online photo sites. I really like it already, and now there’s even more features coming? Nice!

  11. Paul W said on 7 Feb 2007 at 12:22 am:

    I even got a £600 (ie $1200) camera for this occasion.. =) ..well not realy, but zooomr has inspired me to take up photography and get my first dSLR.

  12. Chris Nixon said on 7 Feb 2007 at 12:31 am:

    Excellent news! I’m on tender hooks.

  13. Dave said on 7 Feb 2007 at 3:43 am:

    Great news. Looking forward to it and to working with the new api.

  14. Russell said on 7 Feb 2007 at 4:41 am:

    Fantastic! Can’t wait to see all the improvements, but I’m sure they are worth the wait :)

  15. Nitesh Gautam said on 7 Feb 2007 at 5:16 am:

    Good going, Kris.

    We all are waiting for the next smashing release from you guys.

    I also wanted to mention that, just like
    Paul, I have also been inspired by Zooomr towards more photography.

    Best Wishes

  16. Dan said on 7 Feb 2007 at 5:18 am:

    Woohooo, can’t wait. Any certain date we can put in our calendars or should we just mark the whole month as Zooomr month? :P
    Looking forward to playing around with the new site. Are you going to outline the major changes or will we have to find them out ourselves? Would be nice to be guided around.
    Good luck with the last few weeks! Don’t tire yourself out too much :)

  17. killercup said on 7 Feb 2007 at 5:50 am:

    very great news!
    btw, i sent you a zmail with some suggestions just before i read this post yesterday ;)

  18. Rob said on 7 Feb 2007 at 7:34 am:

    Sounds great! Being new to Zooomr, I’m very excited with the features you already have. Can’t wait to have more to play around with!

  19. Alexandru Savu said on 7 Feb 2007 at 9:28 am:

    Can’t wait!

  20. tinyau said on 7 Feb 2007 at 9:39 am:

    I am looking forward to trying Zooomr Mark III

  21. dclagoa said on 7 Feb 2007 at 12:15 pm:

    Congratulations and thanks for your hard work.

  22. Slim said on 7 Feb 2007 at 10:58 pm:

    Hello developers!
    Where I can post my proposals and bugs of Zoomr ?
    Thx.

  23. TravisP said on 10 Feb 2007 at 1:08 am:

    BRING IT ON!

    Whooooooo Hoooooooo

  24. Ryan Russell said on 10 Feb 2007 at 12:48 pm:

    I look forward to it. Speaking of which, I was just wondering if I should be doing random QA and design feedback, and if so, where do I send my suggestions? So now I’ll wait for the new rev, but I’m sure I’ll still be able to find something to say. ;)

  25. Mark said on 11 Feb 2007 at 1:45 am:

    One feature I’d like to see return is the ability to add a person to a photo without adding a note to it.

  26. Charles said on 11 Feb 2007 at 9:06 am:

    Good job! Kris we love u!!

  27. Alex said on 11 Feb 2007 at 11:36 pm:

    Awesome! Can’t wait to see it! Upgrades are so exciting… :)

    So what are the odds of repeating the pro upgrade for bloggers from last summer as a way to celebrate the launch of MkIII? :) Hint, hint. :)

  28. Karsten said on 12 Feb 2007 at 12:01 pm:

    Hi Kristopher, I am really looking forward to further improvements on Zooomr and appreciate your work. Zooomr is just an amazing place to share photos!
    Anyways, it looks like image rotation is not working at the moment which is not a big issue. Just to let you know. BTW, what does pro 4 life indicate?

  29. tara and eddie (dot) com said on 14 Feb 2007 at 8:48 am:

    Snowshoeing, Photos, Flickr to Zooomr, and more.

    I’m rather surprised by how into this whole photo-thang I am. I was really getting into it before Christmas with some very simple point-and-shoot cameras, and then Tara surprised me and we bought a Canon 30D dSLR, with a really nice 17-85 (f4-5….

  30. frontieruk said on 18 Feb 2007 at 6:51 pm:

    one thing that’s kinda got my back up… trackbacks… it’d be really nice to be able to click on the trackbacks stat and see which photo’s are being looked at in feeds etc.

  31. Edward said on 24 Feb 2007 at 9:55 pm:

    What your zooomr is so slow? I like some of the features but my experience is not so good. Is there any plan to make it faster? I realize you’re still in beta.

  32. Nick said on 26 Feb 2007 at 2:39 pm:

    From the UK the speed of Zooomr is noticeable slower than flickr.
    Any plans to introduce forums?

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  34. JerryBrightonhammer said on 30 Mar 2007 at 1:21 pm:

    What in the name of Jerry Brightonhammer was that all about?
    I dont’ know but it doesn’t make sense to me.

  35. RaymonWazerri said on 20 Apr 2007 at 1:13 pm:

    Hey,
    I love what you’e doing!
    Don’t ever change and best of luck.

    Raymon W.

  36. RandyJones said on 25 Apr 2007 at 9:57 am:

    Looks Like Dallas is in trouble!
    Phoenix might end up blowing them all away.

    PHX vs. Det. Hmmm..Could be interesting?

  37. MaryAnne said on 26 Apr 2007 at 9:17 am:

    I’m not quite understanding what all
    this is supposed to be about?
    Must be me or something…

  38. JerryGreen said on 2 May 2007 at 10:57 am:

    How green is the grass on the other side of the fence?
    Not much. Don’t believe it I tell you.
    Jerry

  39. StephenG said on 2 May 2007 at 12:50 pm:

    Hey,
    Really nice site you got here.
    I’ll come back more often and check it out.
    Peace!

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