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Zooomr Mark III is Born

by Thomas Hawk | 2 June 2007 | General | 59 Comments

[GREEN UPDATE 03:45a PDT: We should be okay for a bit — Once Thomas wakes up, we’re going to head down to the datacenter… Thanks for your support — kristopher ]

[UPDATE 01:03a: I’m traffic shaping the huge amount of requests that are coming into the system — please bear with us, thanks! — kristopher]

Well birth usually involves labor pain and this baby has been one heck of a birth. But Kristopher and I are pleased to announce that Zooomr Mark III has arrived.

There are so many people to thank for making Mark III possible. I’m reluctant to even try… but Dave Sifry, Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington, Raju and everyone at Zoho, Michael Dell and Dell Computer, Sun Microsystems, John Furrier and Podtech, Ben Metcalfe, Caroline, hdiwan, Denise, Johnnie and UStream, Rev Dan Catt, Heather, Shawn Sorichetti, Steve Cohen, Jeremiah Owyang and so many, many other people. Everyone who has been hanging out with us the past week online as we’ve launched most of all. You have no idea how important your support was to making this happen. You are the Zooomr Community. You have been our advocates, always patient and understanding. We will never forget the love you shared with us this past week. It’s truly been and will continue to be fun.

Please bear with us in the next week as we fix as many bugs as we can. If you have bugs please report them in the help forum here.

59 Comments

  1. Elliot Pearson said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:14 pm:

    Massive congratulations guys!!

    Many thanks for all your hard work and dedication - I hope the your stresses are over and you can enjoy the job well done!

    All the very best wishes for the future.

  2. Raju Vegesna said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:19 pm:

    Congrats Kris and Thomas. U guys really did great and you deserve a HUGE APPLAUSE!!!

  3. rleong101 said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:26 pm:

    Truly great news, guys. I knew you could do it! Bravo!
    All the best,
    rleong101

  4. homestar14 said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:35 pm:

    Congratulations everyone, especially Kris! All of your hard work the past two weeks makes me know without a doubt that Zooomr will succeed!

    Mark III was more than worth the wait, and I can’t wait to use all of its amazing features!

    Once again, great work, and thank you both so much. You guys are amazing!!!!!

  5. akirasan said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:37 pm:

    good jobs guys!!!

  6. Jack Tormie said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:46 pm:

    First thought:- where’s the “forgot username/password” link?

    Congratulations.

  7. jam1138 said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:47 pm:

    ¡Felicitaciones!!, ojalá sea todo un éxito (pero si es seguro :-P)

  8. drmauro said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:53 pm:

    really good! hope the best for everything!

  9. Fajro said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:55 pm:

    “Unhandled Exception

    An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.”

    :(

  10. Kenneth Verburg said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:58 pm:

    Worldclass Kris and Thomas!

  11. Fajro said on 2 Jun 2007 at 11:59 pm:

    mmm…

    It works with an anonymous proxy.. :P

    My ISP sucks

  12. r said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:01 am:

    Yes, greetings for the launch.
    And I’ll say it for you:

    “Dear users, please excuse uss for the interruption of our service! We’ll try to keep zooomr online from now on! Thank you for your great patience!”

  13. man said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:03 am:

    Hm… offline again.

  14. CJ said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:04 am:

    Is it down again? I thought I was in about 10 min ago but as soon as I got in it seemed to crash (this happened last time as well - maybe I am a jinx?)

  15. Cédric said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:05 am:

    simply splendid, great work !

  16. cat said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:06 am:

    great thing, but don’t get the chance to login, for it is offline now.

  17. Roger Kondrat said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:07 am:

    I am sorry to harp on about this but people are just waking up in the UK and most of America is asleep so the Privacy is so HUGE that I would absolutely blog access to the pictures right now.

    This is a huge liability issue from a legal stand point too.

    As well getting it done soon won’t be soon enough if google’s spider gets my pictures and cache’s it.

    How upset I will be should my personal images get passed around the internet is difficult to imagine at this point but needless to say it will be very very disappointing.

    That being said, my gf and past gfs will go ballistic (very unhappy) if their images are passed around the web.

    Before anyone gets excited in this group there are no nude pictures so don’t waste your time, but that doesn’t change the private nature of them.

    Kris… You must block all access (except for embeded images on blogs) to our images until you can fix the privacy issue, this is not a run and fix ‘live’ issue!!!!

    I cannot stress this enough.

  18. Carl said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:08 am:

    I love the new look and choices. But now I notice that juploadr v.1.1.2 is having problems with it, as it reports a 404 error when I try to get it to authorise to zooomr.
    I hope you guys can work with the guys who created juploadr to iron out this problem.
    Or maybe you can suggest a new bulk uploader that wotks with this amazing new version of Zooomr.

  19. jose87 said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:15 am:

    Sois los mejores, enhorabuena!!!

  20. who cares said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:22 am:

    Get a grip Roger

  21. rtet said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:32 am:

    My God, be born to die.

  22. Thomas's Belly said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:51 am:

    Highlight of the night:

  23. Thomas's Belly said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:54 am:

    Hmm: http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/899/thomasbellyii7.gif

  24. Jack Tormie said on 3 Jun 2007 at 12:57 am:

    What an embarrassment - with such technical and professional support, Zooomr still goes down just minutes after launch?

    Kris, sell your code to Flickr and move on. Let’s end the embarrassment here.

  25. Alen said on 3 Jun 2007 at 1:09 am:

    Oh c’mon, there is no embarrassment…
    Zooomr is the best, even if we have to wait long long time for it…
    we’re with you, Kristopher :)

  26. enough said on 3 Jun 2007 at 1:12 am:

    I’m with jack… couldn’t the load balancing be done before? It’s getting a real soap opera now.

  27. ex-zooomr user said on 3 Jun 2007 at 1:18 am:

    this company is a joke, I want a refund

  28. Ian said on 3 Jun 2007 at 1:20 am:

    Congratulations!!!

  29. Robin Stacey said on 3 Jun 2007 at 1:26 am:

    To the critics: You try doing this. No, really. Then you’ll appreciate the efforts and hard work these guys are putting in - FOR YOU. Stop moaning, already.

    I’m been there, done that as both a code jockey and senior partner. There’s only so many 48 hour coding sessions and 4am rollouts a body can take :)

    Kris, Thomas. We’re with you and know it’ll be ready when it want to be ready, not before.

  30. nige said on 3 Jun 2007 at 2:01 am:

    well done gents. keep your peckers up and you’ll get it done good & proper eventally.

  31. David said on 3 Jun 2007 at 2:30 am:

    ITS NOT WORKING!!!

  32. TravisP said on 3 Jun 2007 at 2:32 am:

    Now this is just teasing!

    Looking forward to it coming up though.

  33. Lon said on 3 Jun 2007 at 3:06 am:

    Hey folks, I’ve been following along quietly the past two weeks, and glad just to be able to log in and see some of the new features.

    Kris & Thomas thank you, you’re already heros and visionaries in my book.

  34. Elias Torres said on 3 Jun 2007 at 3:13 am:

    Good job, I know there is a big amount of work next days, good luck and congratulations!

  35. Lloyd said on 3 Jun 2007 at 3:31 am:

    Hey, I’ve got a couple bugs and I would post them into the forum but I can’t (and I post this here if others are having the same problem but are not sure where or how to tell you)!

    The reason is I can’t sign up for an account, I fill in all the information here: http://beta.zooomr.com/signup/ but I can never click “Let’s Start This Thing!”, it just does nothing. Also as a side note the link to the terms and conditions on that page goes to a 404.

    Either way I know how much you’ve been working on this and I’m sure its great! Hopefully I’ll be able to see for myself when I can join!

  36. Hoshi said on 3 Jun 2007 at 3:43 am:

    Fantastic work Kristopher! Who needs critics anyways. Just created a new account without any flaws. Email login is the shite!!!

  37. Andrew said on 3 Jun 2007 at 4:25 am:

    Hi guys. It seems some people think Zooomr is a flop.. What-ever!! There are bound to be glitches along the way, but we’ve seen the skill and dedication, and the scale of ideas.. that alone has been a great experiance! Ironing this kind of stuff out will make this place the centre of the web for me! Well done KT and Thank you very much indeed.

  38. Charles said on 3 Jun 2007 at 5:00 am:

    Zooomr M3 is amazing. However, my “pro 4 life” is gone…..now I am only a pro member. Is there something wrong about that?

  39. jose87 said on 3 Jun 2007 at 5:23 am:

    No puedo acceder a Zooomr, ¿hay algún problema?

  40. Tasha said on 3 Jun 2007 at 5:35 am:

    Congratulations, guys! It’s been a long, hard couple of weeks for you. I’m looking forward to digging in and seeing all the new things this site has to offer.

    Pat yourselves on the backs for getting this done, and GET SOME SLEEP! You’ve got bugs to fix tomorrow. ;)

  41. .tom said on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:02 am:

    Zooomr Mark III launched

    Just a quick message to say that Zooomr has relaunched! When I’ve used it a bit more, I’ll post a review of it here.
    If you’re into photosharing, do have a look.
    Link: Zooomr
    …

  42. Felix said on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:07 am:

    ^^WONDERFUL!!
    But why can’t I browse my photos web?
    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/DevilFelix/

  43. johnb said on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:09 am:

    Congrats, MIII looks awesome.

  44. lrz said on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:25 am:

    Congrats, it’s really the greatest news.

  45. Carlos said on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:38 am:

    I was one of them unlucky people who didn’t have the chance to see the launch of MIII.

    Just having a go after reading this lovely post, it is 110% worth the wait and frustrations!

    I’m sure you feel 10 times more satisfied with this small step towards the fulfillment of your dream.

    congratulations!

  46. jose87 said on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:42 am:

    No puedo entrar me da este error: Unhandled Exception

    An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.

  47. kenichimatsumoto said on 3 Jun 2007 at 6:51 am:

    Thanks for your hard work,Kris!
    Zooomr community “IS” awesome!

  48. tinyau said on 3 Jun 2007 at 7:20 am:

    Congratulation Kris and Thomas. The worse time is over. Thanks for getting Zooomr Mark III online.

  49. Atakan E said on 3 Jun 2007 at 7:26 am:

    Congrats KT & TH. Welcome back :)

  50. stockwerk23 said on 3 Jun 2007 at 7:33 am:

    Congratulations! The new baby is frekkin awesome!

  51. ada said on 3 Jun 2007 at 7:41 am:

    Congrats!

  52. Juan said on 3 Jun 2007 at 8:21 am:

    It keeps giving me this:

    Unhandled Exception

    An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.

  53. Tanguillo said on 3 Jun 2007 at 9:03 am:

    NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Testing Mark III in Linux Firefox 64 :-)

  54. Jeff H said on 3 Jun 2007 at 9:59 am:

    Thomas, Kris,
    I can’t see my photos or my account details. I can log in. I can see Zipline, BUT when I click on “You” or “Groups” I get a page error “This Page was Not Found”. It would sure be nice if I could use my account.
    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/JeffHenderson/

  55. Peter-Paul de Meijer said on 3 Jun 2007 at 10:32 am:

    Congratulations Kris en Thomas!
    I’m happy MIII finally launched.
    Now go get some deserved rest!

  56. val said on 3 Jun 2007 at 1:06 pm:

    “Unhandled Exception

    An unhandled exception was thrown by the application.”

    It’s been like this all day.

    I feel like I’m being left out of everything! Does M3 really works?

  57. nucli.de said on 4 Jun 2007 at 6:49 am:

    Neues

    Kannte ich noch nicht und trotzdem für gut befunden:

    Nerdcore — Die Wahrheit über alle Popsongs der letzten 35 JahreGeniale Bob Dylan Parodie.
    BatzLog - Noch etwas Salz » Hurdy GurdyAwkward.
    Zooomr Mark III is bornUnlimitierter Photoservice- ab j…

  58. The Birthplace of the Process of Illogical Logic said on 5 Jun 2007 at 5:40 am:

    While you were away …

    Well, a lot has happened since I slept through this weekend (metaphorically speaking, of course). The Bluegrass Festival was Saturday, but due to the haze and amount of sheer crap in the air — and the fact that I had been out in it all day &#821…

  59. Leira said on 8 Jun 2007 at 11:32 pm:

    I cannot visit my account page and my photos page, thay are all “This Page was Not Found”, and even the support contact page (http://beta.zooomr.com/about/contact/) is “This Page was Not Found” too~~

    my account page is
    http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/Leira/

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