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Lauching Zooomr Mark III

by Thomas Hawk | 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 donate thing if people want to donate to help Zooomr.

Thanks all and see you in Mark III.

Zooomr Mark III Launch Demo! from Kristopher on Vimeo

39 Comments

  1. Greg said on 21 May 2007 at 2:44 pm:

    Excellent!
    Good luck for the launch.

  2. shane said on 21 May 2007 at 3:16 pm:

    the launch demo isn’t playing for me…

  3. kingler said on 21 May 2007 at 3:28 pm:

    Great news! Good luck with everything!

  4. ManWithCamera said on 21 May 2007 at 3:37 pm:

    Great job, Kristopher.
    But now this is the only page I can reach! How do I login?

  5. Shwouchk said on 21 May 2007 at 3:39 pm:

    Congradulations!

  6. Navdeep said on 21 May 2007 at 3:42 pm:

    Holy CRAPS!! This looks awesome!!

  7. ManWithCamera said on 21 May 2007 at 3:49 pm:

    Sorry. I somehow missed the message above which clearly states that Zooomr will be down for a bit.
    I’ll be patient.

    I’m certainly looking forward to trying out Mark III.

    BTW, how are you guys going to pay for all the unlimited storage? Just donations???

  8. egorgry said on 21 May 2007 at 4:13 pm:

    Don’t break my heart again. ;)

  9. Walter said on 21 May 2007 at 4:29 pm:

    Hey guys, you rock!

  10. Curious George said on 21 May 2007 at 5:22 pm:

    How will wildly the popular users deal with people wanting to put portals on their images? Seems like there might be an overload of portals on a few select photographers.

    For example, I’d imagine that you, Thomas Hawk, would find a flood of them from San Franciscans. I suppose you’d retain the rights to delete them (especially since you’re behind the scenes, too), but still.

  11. Henrikj said on 21 May 2007 at 6:09 pm:

    Good luck! Looks very promising to me.

  12. Pal said on 21 May 2007 at 6:33 pm:

    WOW. Mark III is there, at last. I cant wait any more!

  13. keroseno said on 21 May 2007 at 9:02 pm:

    yeah! i can’t wait to see new zooomr Mark III UP!

  14. tim said on 21 May 2007 at 9:27 pm:

    Wow, Kris. It’s better than I had dared to imagine. Good luck with the transition.

  15. alex said on 21 May 2007 at 10:07 pm:

    Hey, how are people sending you these questions? I have a few questions.

  16. Nitesh Gautam said on 21 May 2007 at 10:11 pm:

    Eagerly waiting.

    Best Wishes.

  17. Tim said on 21 May 2007 at 10:58 pm:

    excited excited excited!

  18. Vorsprung durch readme! said on 21 May 2007 at 11:12 pm:

    zoomr in neu

    Zooomr Mark III - die flickr-like Bildchen-Hochschieb-Plattform hat den dritten Level erklommen. Alles (ein bissel) neu out there. Hier ist etwas über den Menschen (”CTO & Founder”) zu erfahren, der das Projekt stemmt.
    In meiner POS hat man mir…

  19. gareth thomas said on 22 May 2007 at 12:18 am:

    Cant wait to see MkIII, just ordered a D200 so hopefully can christian it next week with a bunch of nice new pics.

    Keep up the good work Chris, hope you can feel the love from Scotland!

  20. Dave said on 22 May 2007 at 12:49 am:

    Good news! I hope it all goes smoothly.

  21. StevieB said on 22 May 2007 at 2:21 am:

    Hope all goes well - I’m starting to get withdrawal symptoms already!

    And Gareth, you’ll love the D200!

  22. stockwerk23 said on 22 May 2007 at 2:22 am:

    This looks so frekkin vielversprechend!!! Good one…

  23. Akirasan's blog said on 22 May 2007 at 2:45 am:

    Lanzamiento de Zooomr Mark III

    Actualmente Zooomr (del que ya había hablado hace poco) está fuera de servicio durante un tiempo relativamente corto, ya que han empezado a migrar la versión Zooomr V2 al Mark III. En su blog podéis ver el progreso de este cambio y un vídeo expli…

  24. Vincent said on 22 May 2007 at 4:45 am:

    The demo looks awesome, I can’t wait! And finally the personalized search, I’ve always wanted to search my own pictures :D I hope I’ll also be able to browse my own pictures with a certain tag, looks like I can. And Analytics sounds really, really cool, I love statistics!
    Also, the map used to have a few annoyances (that it wouldn’t find the place) but it seems you’ve got that all covered now with this smart search system.

    And don’t worry, you’ll get pictures tagged with Tokio Tower ;)

    I do hope Creative Commons integration has improved too, because they’re very useful.

    All in all, I think you’ve now caught up on and even exceeded Flickr, congrats!

  25. Tanguillo said on 22 May 2007 at 4:54 am:

    Buena suerte Mark!!! :D

    (Good luck)

  26. jose87 said on 22 May 2007 at 7:26 am:

    Gran noticia, esperamos ansiosos el nuevo lanzamiento!!

  27. jpghouse said on 22 May 2007 at 8:03 am:

    Good luck on the launch guys.

  28. lrz said on 22 May 2007 at 8:12 am:

    The idea is great. Thanks, man! I will keep supporting. :P

  29. igor said on 22 May 2007 at 8:24 am:

    good luck with launch!

  30. Andy said on 22 May 2007 at 12:18 pm:

    I can’t believe I bought a Flickr Pro account (I use both Flickr and Zooomr) yesterday and blogged that “I might be kicking myself for spending money on Flickr when Zooomr Mark III comes out in a few months.”

    As predictions go, I don’t think my timeline could have been more wrong!

  31. Juan Pablo Valenzuela said on 22 May 2007 at 1:33 pm:

    The video looks promising. I hope this transition will be finish soon to explore the site for my own. Meanwhile, you can read my thoughts about “Why Google should buy Zooomr” in my blog.

  32. BG said on 22 May 2007 at 2:58 pm:

    Hey guys, thanks so much for the UStream (even with the problems). Being able to make some kind of connection to you guys while zooomr is down has made the upgrade much more bearable.
    Plus, it’s been amazing to watch the community in action. It would be great if you guys could keep the chats semi-regular.
    Good luck!

  33. Anonymous Coward said on 22 May 2007 at 3:16 pm:

    This is a joke. How the hell can an upgrade take 48 hours? And why can’t you make the existing service available during that time? I’ve never heard of this kind of thing — you guys really missed the boat being covered on TechCrunch, and being *down*. As well as promising an iminent release for THREE MONTHS.

  34. Fabydreams said on 22 May 2007 at 3:55 pm:

    Kris, I love Zooomr. It’s the best. My pics in Zooomr… super. Thanks you; you are fantastic. And “…the sky is the limit…”
    With love
    Fabydreams

  35. Sam said on 22 May 2007 at 4:59 pm:

    I have to agree with the AC above. Boasting about articles describing the new functionality (on TH’s blog in particular), and then not having it actually available is a terrible marketing strategy. Don’t even get me started on bragging so much about the marketplace, and not even having a launch date for it…

    I sat around and waited anxiously for M3 the *first* time, so I have to admit I’m not so interested in waiting at the keyboard this time. That said, I hope the upgrade happens quickly this time, and if it doesn’t, that you don’t leave your users in the dark again. The fact is, whether you do all this for free or not, the users are what make it worth it.

    Sure, you’ll have your die-hards that will sit and wait no matter what, but for everyone of those I bet there are at least 10 people who will casually brush off Zooomr without a second thought. In the game you’re trying to bust into, that’s a very important thing to realize.

    Here’s hoping everything goes smoothly (and quickly).

  36. Phasor Burn said on 23 May 2007 at 7:43 am:

    Poooftr Mark III - attempt number 2? 3? 17?

    It appears that Zooomr is once again trying to break the land speed record for missing a published site-wide conversion/upgrade window. The other day they were to be down for 12-24 hrs and we’re somewhere past the 40 hour marker and still count…

  37. Trade Show Displays said on 23 May 2007 at 9:51 am:

    Good luck on the launch guys, this looks great!

  38. Doh! said on 23 May 2007 at 11:50 am:

    C’mon guys! Enuf’s enuf! 12 to 24 hours has come and gone…Quit flapping your jaws about how great the site WILL BE and get it up already. Honestly, I can’t for the life of me understand why you aren’t running parallel systems so that you could have kept MK2 up during your upgrade. It would have made more sense to freeze all uploads to Mk2 but still keep it up so users could access our photos, and browse others. I wonder how many people you will alienate by being down for days at a time both on your first aborted attempt and now your second try at rolling out Mk3?

    Thomas, I’d be willing to bet a lot of $ that if you weren’t the CEO and were just a user of Zooomr, you would be quite vocal and critical of the way the upgrade has been handled, with services completely down for days at a time and users locked out of access to their photos. Something to think about…

  39. Disapponted said on 24 May 2007 at 3:25 am:

    It’s now midday on the 24th and I still can’t view/access/do anything with my pictures.

    I know it’s a free service and you guys are great (and don’t yet belong to the loathsome Yahoo!) but I’m very disapponted at this extended 3+ day downtime.

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