Archives for May 2007

[UPDATED: BACK ONLINE] Morning everyone, something happened…

19 May 2007 | System Notices | 24 Comments

Haha, meant to say 4:42am instead of 9:42am — sorry for the confusion!
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): […]

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Check-Out this Awesome Music Video!

16 May 2007 | Video Blog | 22 Comments

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,
kristopher

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Happy Mother’s Day

13 May 2007 | Zooomr Highlights | 1 Comment

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.

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Thursday Sampler

10 May 2007 | Zooomr Highlights | 7 Comments

A little Thursday sampler of beauty. Clockwise starting at upper left photos by, Ryan, Verb My Noun., Bryan N, and Paul.

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Zooomr Mark III Localization Released!

7 May 2007 | Announcements, Development | 7 Comments

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 […]

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Launching Zooomr Blog German (Deutschsprachiger Zooomr-Blog)!

7 May 2007 | Adventures, Announcements | 7 Comments

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 […]

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New Street-Level detail on Google Maps & Zooomr TagMap! (Russia, Turkey, Lithuania, Slovenia, Taiwan, Croatia, Greece, Thailand & Estonia)

6 May 2007 | Announcements, Development | 6 Comments

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!
-kristopher

Russia
Turkey
Lithuania
Slovenia
Taiwan
Croatia
Greece
Thailand
Estonia

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Zooomr Mark III Translation docs out on Monday / Tuesday!

6 May 2007 | Announcements, Development, General, Video Blog | 13 Comments

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 […]

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Favorific

2 May 2007 | Zooomr Highlights | 9 Comments

A Random Selection of My Faves Hosted on Zooomr
One 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 […]

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We Hear You China and Taiwan! This Post is For You!

2 May 2007 | Announcements, Development, General, Video Blog | 7 Comments

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 […]

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