A Present to the World (It’s my Birthday) [A MUST READ]

by kristopher | 30 April 2007 | General | 82 Comments

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Hey Friends, It’s my birthday and I wanted to share some very important information about Zooomr Mark III & Zooomr, as a company.

Official Mark III Roll-Out ETA!

Zooomr ZM3 Sneak Peak

Three weeks. In a week, we’ll be releasing our translation files and letting a select few into our sandbox to try things out. Afterwards, I’ve got some final staging to do and then we’ll officially launch Mark III.

You cannot believe how excited I am about this! :) (Especially after working 16 hour days for the last 9 months!)

Zooomr: the Company

I have some breaking news to share that may create a period of hiatus for Zooomr: Our initial investor heard we were cash positive and has decided to pull their money out of our accounts.

What does this mean?

As you all know, I’ve been working night and day in solely building and maintaining Zooomr since its conception — In this trust, I will continue to work night and day for our global users. It’s amazing even to me how much I’ve been able to accomplish as One Person.

And, while this will more than certainly hinder any purchasing of new storage systems to scale Mark III, Mark III will most certainly still be released.

In the above interests, we’ve started to look for fresh investment. We know there are angels, VCs and other investors reading our blog - so if you think you can help, please let us know! :)

Both Thomas Hawk and myself are pleased to be in the company of so many wonderful people every day. So much of what we do everyday is for our users and the many individuals who visit our site on a daily basis. Thank-you for all your support. :)

With continued love and respect,

-kristopher

82 Comments

  1. Ray Booysen said on 30 Apr 2007 at 12:46 pm:

    Good Luck! Can’t wait until Mark III and I’m sure you have loads on your plate.

    Good luck again!

  2. Liang said on 30 Apr 2007 at 12:49 pm:

    Happy Birthday, Kris!

    Great job with Mark III, and I guess it would be multilingual at launch?

    Best wishes to the company!

  3. Fajro said on 30 Apr 2007 at 12:50 pm:

    Happy Birthday, Kris!

  4. Taavi Toomasson said on 30 Apr 2007 at 12:52 pm:

    Just fabulous.

  5. David Cohen said on 30 Apr 2007 at 12:59 pm:

    Kris - any chance you’d let us users purchase a drive and “donate” it for use on Zooomr.

  6. Kristopher Tate said on 30 Apr 2007 at 1:17 pm:

    Everyone, thank-you for your kind words!

    David, please contact me privately via Google Talk: kris.tate@gmail.com

    -Kristopher

  7. Julie said on 30 Apr 2007 at 1:20 pm:

    Happy birthday.

  8. Raoul said on 30 Apr 2007 at 1:42 pm:

    Kris, happy birthday! I know things will work out if you keep at it. Here’s hoping for the best!

  9. Malphas Wats said on 30 Apr 2007 at 1:48 pm:

    Happy Birthday!

  10. BG said on 30 Apr 2007 at 1:58 pm:

    Happy Birthday Kris!

    good luck with final preparations and MIII kinks.

  11. Robby said on 30 Apr 2007 at 2:14 pm:

    Happy Birthday, Kris! :)

    VC’s can be so tricky. :\ Hope for all the best for you guys.

  12. TanGuillo said on 30 Apr 2007 at 2:35 pm:

    Que tengás un muy feliz cumpleaños!!! :-D
    And thanks for the ETA. Is nice to finally know when I will able to put my hands on Mark III.
    To Thomas Hawk: I have to admit that you were right when you said that I wasn’t correct to use images hosting on zooomr in my blog without linking back. Well I was waiting until a full redesign of my wordpress theme to put all in his place, and now it’s done. BTW, I search for a icon (or image) of zooomr to use as link but I cant find a nice one (to put in my sidebar). Let me know if you have one.
    Thanks

  13. Dana said on 30 Apr 2007 at 2:37 pm:

    Happy Birthday Kris! Here’s to big things!!

  14. cmiper said on 30 Apr 2007 at 3:19 pm:

    Happy Birthday Kristopher!

  15. Darke said on 30 Apr 2007 at 3:52 pm:

    Happy Birthday!

  16. NatalieF / Natalie Ford said on 30 Apr 2007 at 4:20 pm:

    Happy Birthday!

    Where can I feed back my bugs/issues to you to make sure that they are fixed in mark III? Or should I just go ahead and buy a pro flickr account and give up trying to help?

  17. obot said on 30 Apr 2007 at 4:22 pm:

    Heya…Happy birthday, Kris! What you’ve accomplished is awesome

  18. Tony said on 30 Apr 2007 at 5:23 pm:

    Happy birthday, Kris!
    Good luck!

  19. Lon said on 30 Apr 2007 at 5:40 pm:

    sooo cool. can’t wait! and Happy bday!

  20. Marvin Chery said on 30 Apr 2007 at 7:55 pm:

    Hey Kristopher, Happy Birthday.
    I would be more than happy to help you try out MARKIII before release as I extensively use Zooomr on a daily basis.

  21. Chrono Cr@cker said on 30 Apr 2007 at 8:13 pm:

    Happy Birthday Kris and I hope you guys get more investors and make Zooomr #1.

  22. Jon Asher said on 30 Apr 2007 at 8:46 pm:

    Great job Kris. You are the cyber coder extraordinaire. May Guy K. eat his heart out on your birthday ;)

  23. Digg said on 30 Apr 2007 at 10:35 pm:

    Official Zooomr Mark III Roll-Out ETA!

    “Three weeks. In a week, we ’ll be releasing our translation files and letting a select few into our sandbox to try things out. Afterwards, I’ve got some final staging to do and then we’ll officially launch Mark III.”

  24. Nick Rigby said on 30 Apr 2007 at 11:18 pm:

    Kris,
    Hope you have a great birthday.
    All the best with the final testing of MK3 and your hunt for a new VC.

    Nick

  25. killercup said on 30 Apr 2007 at 11:47 pm:

    Happy Birthday, Kris!
    I’m expecting a wonderful new Zooomr in 3 weeks! :)

  26. bertoniloose said on 30 Apr 2007 at 11:50 pm:

    Happy Birthday, Kris!!!

  27. Ben said on 30 Apr 2007 at 11:56 pm:

    Happy birthday! Party hard! But not too hard, because you’ll forget the party when you finally wake up. I hope everybody has fun in the sandbox.. no stomping on my castle, anyone.

  28. Patric said on 1 May 2007 at 12:14 am:

    late happy bday ;o) Good luck and you did a really great job!

  29. cheer said on 1 May 2007 at 12:58 am:

    Happy birthday! Thank you for your work!

  30. Vincent said on 1 May 2007 at 1:19 am:

    Oh my… You just did not comply with your Terms Of Service with this screenshot:

    “The Web Site is intended for hosting digital photographs; therefore, uploading non-photographic images is prohibited.”

    ;-)

    Happy birthday, and thanks for Zooomr!

  31. peppeg said on 1 May 2007 at 1:28 am:

    Happy birthday Kris!!!

    with just a bit delay :P

  32. tim said on 1 May 2007 at 3:25 am:

    Happy birthday, Kris. Thank you for working so hard to give us a great product. I look forward to using it.

  33. themak said on 1 May 2007 at 5:19 am:

    Happy Birthday Kris! (again)

    Good luck with MIII and all those challenges.

  34. Yuvi said on 1 May 2007 at 6:09 am:

    Happy Birthday Kris!
    Happy Birthday Kris: In our School Style Hosted on Zooomr

  35. Yuvi said on 1 May 2007 at 6:10 am:

    Oh well, I’ll just link to it: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/yuvipanda/1044369

  36. martin88 said on 1 May 2007 at 6:10 am:

    Happy birthday, all the best. Zooomr mkIII just round the corner, can’t wait.

    Martin

  37. skyloper said on 1 May 2007 at 8:23 am:

    happy birthday~

  38. BeHE said on 1 May 2007 at 9:34 am:

    Happy birthday, Kris, but please fix that problem with the uploader I posted in the last topic.

  39. Darren said on 1 May 2007 at 11:16 am:

    Happy ‘belated’ Birthday wishes.
    And all the best with Mark III and the quest for investment.

  40. Allen said on 1 May 2007 at 2:28 pm:

    Hopefully smartsets will work in mark3, perhaps a help section too :/.

  41. .campino2k said on 1 May 2007 at 10:24 pm:

    So there is a very late happy birthday from me to you, too. Keep up the good work and good luck for finding a new Investor soon.

  42. Jon Ward said on 2 May 2007 at 3:19 am:

    a belated happy birthday kris!

    good to see the blog with more frequent updates now, keep it up, final furlong now….

  43. Dennis Morhardt said on 2 May 2007 at 4:12 am:

    Moin Moin,

    i would like help to translate Mark III and test the new release.

    And by the Way: Happy Birthday!

    - Dennis

  44. Abby said on 2 May 2007 at 5:47 am:

    Happy Birthday, Kris!

    My Mark III wishlist:
    - SmartSets that are smart (I mean which work)

    - Help/How-To section

    - Some gadgets for Windows Vista (Upload/browse)

    - Badges Flickresque to display on blogs/sites

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    ¿Cómo se consigue esa apariencia en zooomr??

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    在过去的9个月里面,为了推出 Zooomr 的新版, Kristopher 每天都工作…

  47. David Cohen said on 3 May 2007 at 4:01 pm:

    Kris - I emailed you the other day, please let me know if you are still interested in the “donating” idea.

  48. Phil said on 4 May 2007 at 8:10 pm:

    Happy birthday Kris!

  49. Kristopher Tate said on 5 May 2007 at 9:28 am:

    Thanks, everyone!

    -kristopher

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    Good luck with the funding! I hope it works out.

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