Archives for May 2007

Working on Getting a New Server

30 May 2007 | General | 100 Comments

Thanks to everyone who is hanging in there with Zooomr right now. We got a bit of sleep last night and are scrambling hard this morning to try and arrange some new servers in order to get Mark III back up and running. We are sorry for the outage and for the difficulty […]

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Zooomr, The Little Photo Sharing Site That Could…

29 May 2007 | Announcements | 66 Comments

[UPDATE @ 2:41am] Hey Friends, I’ve been here for about 2 hours or so now — the database box is completely done-for. Luckily, we do keep database snapshots/backups! We will come out of this stronger than before, together — Zooomr is the world’s photosharing website. — kristopher

When I was 5 years old I climbed Mount […]

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Zooomr Mark III Status Report

27 May 2007 | Announcements | 86 Comments

Thanks to everyone who has stood by and continued with patience for Zooomr Mark III. Obviously our migration has taken much longer than we’d hoped and there were plenty of unforseen problems. Part of what’s been difficult has been getting all of the photos moved over and matched up with all of the […]

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Another Update on Zooomr Mark III

24 May 2007 | Announcements | 79 Comments

Hey folks. Well unfortunately we are still running into some trouble getting everything moved over to the new Zooomr Mark III. We’ve gotten all of the user accounts moved over at this point but Kristopher was running into trouble getting the photos over. The way he was moving them into our new […]

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NEVER QUIT — 72HRS STRONG

24 May 2007 | Announcements, Development, System Notices, Video Blog | 14 Comments

Hey Friends, if there’s one thing that’s been proven over the last 72 hours — it’s been how awesome you guys are!
Thomas and I are proud to be connected to such an awesome group of people. We’re pretty tired over here, but the message is clear: NEVER QUIT — STAY STRONG.
One of our […]

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Zooomr Mark III Live Demo Tomorrow at SFWIN

23 May 2007 | Adventures, Announcements, Development, System Notices, Zooomr Highlights | 13 Comments

Hey Friends, I’m closing in on this release!!! I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be live at SFWIN tomorrow! (Yes, we’ll be launched by then )
Details
Time: 6p
Location: 405 Howard Street, SF - the Orrick Building
Price: $10 with RSVP; $20 without. RSVP Link
Working hard for you guys — really pushing for […]

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Update on Zooomr Mark III

23 May 2007 | Announcements | 44 Comments

Kristopher is working. We have no ETA. Hopefully soon. Bear with us. It’s really coming. If we don’t have an ETA it’s dumb to try to guess an ETA and disappoint. We will update people when we do have an ETA. You can check out the UStream feed […]

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The Road to Mark III — Where We’re At

22 May 2007 | Adventures, Announcements, System Notices | 35 Comments

Hey Friends, It’s been a productive and satisfying last 24 hours. Many of you have been sticking with us in the UStream.TV Chat that we’re running — thanks for all of your impressive display of support!
So, the biggest thing that we’re doing here is working through all of the database translation from one […]

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Lauching Zooomr Mark III

21 May 2007 | Adventures, Announcements, Development, System Notices, Video Blog | 39 Comments

Zooomr is off line right now while we make the transition from Zooomr V2 to Zooomr Mark III. We think it’s probably 12-24 hours until launch. Thanks for all your support! If you want to watch the launch live, you can do it here at UStream.
We’ve also set up a Pay Pal […]

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Video: Driving back to the Zooomr HQ @ 5am PDT

19 May 2007 | Adventures, Video Blog | 26 Comments

Driving Back to the Zooomr HQ: 5am PDT from Kristopher on Vimeo

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