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Shalom שָׁלוֹם

by Thomas Hawk | 22 June 2007 | Announcements | 4 Comments

Sharing the Light

Well here at Zooomr this morning we were pleased to find a nice review on Zooomr appearing in Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s largest newspaper. The review gave Zooomr 4.5 stars and we tied for the top rated photo sharing service.

With that in mind we decided to go ahead and launch our Hebrew version of Zooomr today. If you’d like to switch to Hebrew you can do so at the bottom of any page on Zooomr. Thank you very much to Mor Griv who did the Hebrew translation work for us.

Now one thing to keep in mind about translations on Zooomr is that all of them are done by volunteers. It’s you, the community, who choose to spend your time and energy making Zooomr more accessible to various parts of the globe and world. So with this in mind there will undoubtedly be errors in translations from time to time. By releasing beta versions of translations though publicly, it is our hope that the native communities can help us fix any translation errors and make Zooomr a more proper translated site as we go on.

If you’d like to participate and help translate Zooomr into even more languages please see this group here. You can learn more here and here.

With regards to our Hebrew version there are likely some bugs in it. Hebrew is a little more difficult than most translations for us because Hebrew reads right to left and so our templates might be slightly off. Please bear with any imperfections in our Hebrew version and we’ll get it fixed as we can. Please feel free to send any feedback on our Hebrew or other versions to zfeedback@bbridgetech.com. If Hebrew is not working well enough for you you can always switch to another language that might be working better.

Also it’s important for people to note that it is relatively little work for Kristopher to put new translations online. He is not working on translations at the expense of bringing us all back the features from Zooomr 2 that we all are so very much looking forward to. As mentioned, this translation work is being done by you, volunteers in the Zooomr Community. SmartSets, Faves, Recent Activity, Avatars and Profile pages, Uploading Fixes, RSS. Kristopher is working on all of these fixes and a lot more and is doing so very diligently. We are of course only a one developer team though and so this stuff takes some time. But please know that he is working hard. We also plan on many improvements and enhancements to Zipline, Groups, Marketplace and Analytics. All of these great things are coming to Zooomr. It’s just a matter of time.

Thanks again for all of your support! The above photo is of Rabbi Yosef Langer and was taken by me the year before last at a Chanakuh lighting at Union Square in San Francisco.

4 Comments

  1. Charly said on 22 Jun 2007 at 1:45 pm:

    kristopher mate, could you guys at least repair the “sets” function???
    cheers

  2. Josh said on 22 Jun 2007 at 6:07 pm:

    I think you guys are doing a wonderful job! Keep up the good work! I really enjoy using Zooomr for my photos!

  3. Drazick said on 23 Jun 2007 at 4:52 am:

    You have a great service, no doubt.
    And Israelies appreciate it as well.

    Yet I have few things I wan:
    1. RTL support in the English interface.
    2. Sets / Albums.
    3. Description.
    4. Yahoo Immigration tool (Including Albums, Tags and Descriptions).

  4. PT said on 24 Jun 2007 at 4:33 am:

    @Drazick:

    Adding image description (if that was what you meant) works as logically as everything else here. Click the “public/private”-thingy under your picture and save it without modifications and you get a description box.

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