Morning everyone! It’s currently 01:13 PDT — Just got an automated alert that zooomr is down… working to recover services!
Update (3:39a): We had a few hard drives on our database RAID crash — we’re restoring from the latest snapshot now…
Update (4:39a): All Systems GO! We’re back online folks — sorry for the outage!
-kristopher
Hey Friends! I’ve got a surprise for everyone later this week A long awaited special something. But I’ll let you know more about that later — for now, check-out this awesome music video!!!
With Love,
And don’t forget to call your mom today and tell her Happy Mother’s Day!
Photos left to right by: lucky e, pikamookie and Jeff.
A little Thursday sampler of beauty. Clockwise starting at upper left photos by, Ryan, Verb My Noun., Bryan N, and Paul.
Localization Friends! I have just released the localization files in PO (gettext) format. If you haven’t done so already, please join the Zooomr Localization Group to help us translate Zooomr into your language! If a PO File doesn’t exist in your language — message the group and I’ll add the appropriate files for you to work on!
Here’s to an even more global Zooomr!
Hey Friends! I’m very excited to announce our newest Zooomr Blog: Zooomr Blog German (Deutschsprachiger Zooomr-Blog) 
! This new blog will be headed by German User Kwiat and is again hosted by the awesome folks over at 72Pines!
Do you have strong community skills? If you read/write English well and live in a place where you feel Zooomr would be of interest, comment or send me an IM on Google Talk. My GTalk / Jabber ID is kris . tate @ gmail . com .
Kwiat has also told me that he’s going to try and make videos too — so definitely check-in with this new blog!
Current Zooomr Blogs:
Friends! Pamela Fox over at Google just posted about a recent update to Google Maps! They’ve just added street-level detail for the following countries — go check ‘em out!
Hey Friends, getting ever so much more closer to the release of Mark III!
On Monday or Tuesday, I’ll release the translation files out into the wild and hope to see everyone working on them for our release later this week or next week. Things are drawing near, so please keep in touch with the Zooomr Blog for more info!
Thanks for all of your support and kind considerations,
And yes, I really don’t think I have too much luck with automated video screengrabs… 
A Random Selection of My Faves Hosted on ZooomrOne of my most favorite things to do is to go fav crazy on Zooomr. I’m constantly amazed at the quality of work that all of our photographers put out day after day. Thanks to all of you for sharing your great work and thanks for all the favs on my own shots.
One of my favorite ways to fav is to go fav diving where I go through other people’s favorites to find more myself. Raoul has some amazing picks in this regard. Thanks to all and share the love.
Hey Friends! I’m really excited to be launching two new Zooomr Properties today — Zooomr Blog China (中文博客) and Zooomr Blog Taiwan (台湾博客)! These new blogs will be driven by our users in the region and have our blessing to talk about what’s important to our users and communities who reside in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
In October of last year, we launched Zooomr Taiwan and re-launched Zooomr China in Traditional and Simplified Chinese, respectively. The response was HUGE — and even this is an understatement of how successful we’ve been in Asia as a whole.
So, I’m happy to say that both Gem and Kingler have stepped up to the mark and will be the starting force behind these new blogs. I also want to send a special thank-you to 72Pines (七十二松) for their kind contribution in hosting these blogs regionally.
I would also like to start hosting blogs for our users in Japan, Korea, Germany and the Netherlands, among many more blogs!
We hear you guys and want to keep everyone in the loop. I especially feel bad for not being able to speak all of your wonderful languages — I only humbly speak English and Japanese for now, so please help me in extending the spirit of Zooomr out to your respective communities.
With continued love and respect,
PS: Zooomr TagMap now has maps in Taiwan!!! (China soon!)
Zooomr Growth: May 1, 2007 Hosted on Zooomr
Zooomr World Map Coverage as of 26.11.2006 Hosted on Zooomr
Taiwan now has Maps! Hosted on Zooomr